Pakistani Taliban deny attacking convoy of foreign ambassadors

The blast hit the convoy on a road near Malam Jabba, a tourist area in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province (AP)

The Pakistani Taliban has denied involvement in a bombing attack on a police convoy that was escorting foreign ambassadors in the unsettled north-west, as authorities said they were still trying to determine who was behind it.

Most of the ambassadors and senior envoys were travelling with their family members on Sunday to the Swat Valley, a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban, when the attack occurred in Malam Jabba, one of Pakistan’s two ski resorts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan.