Taliban strikes at Pak intel agency

After a halt for a while Pakistani militants have strike back by hitting Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) building in Lahore killing twelve people and injuring sixty more.

The incident took place in the Model town of Lahore when a suicide bomber drove an explosive-laden car into a building which housed the intelligence agency.

More than 3,000 people have been killed in the last year in Suicide bombings in Pakistan. The terrorists started attacking government installations in Pakistan, when the military started a massive operation in South Waziristan Agency against the Hakimullah Mehsud-led Tehrike-Taliban Pakistan in October 2009.

A significant decline was witnessed in the suicide attacks at the beginning of 2010 and some experts linked it with the killing of important leaders of the TTP during the military operation. According to sources, the TTP entered into an agreement with the government in December 2009 to halt the rising suicide attacks. Though intelligence sources deny this, Taliban sources said that the halt in the attacks was due to an agreement signed between the two warring parties in December 2009 but was suddenly violated by the government.

According to a Taliban source, "When the suicide attacks got momentum and it was almost impossible for the government to control the situation, talks between the representatives of Taliban and the government took place in Peshawar--that resulted in a halt in the attacks. Apart from few key commanders no one else was aware about the nature of the agreement,"the source said.

The government deceived the Taliban and suddenly attacked the militants and inflicted huge losses on them." After that Taliban tried their best but could not recover their position.