Taliban claim attack on Pakistan navy dockyard

Published September 9, 2014 2:46pm ET



KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for a Saturday attack on a naval dockyard in Karachi that saw two militants and a sailor killed, as the Navy said Tuesday it had arrested some of the militants for their involvement in the attack.

Taliban spokesman Shahidullah Shahid in a telephone call to The Associated Press from an undisclosed location said that some naval officials helped them carry out the attack.

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