By By Syed Fazl-e-Haider, Asia Times Online, March 19, 2013

KARACHI - The Pakistani Taliban has declared a war on Pakistan's judiciary and announced it will suspend peace talks with the Pakistani government. At least four persons were killed and 30 injured including three policemen and a woman judge on Monday when two suicide bombers blew themselves up within the premises of the judicial complex in Peshawar, the capital of northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has accepted the responsibility for the suicide attack saying it is the beginning of a new battle against the judicial system which has failed to protect innocent citizens like Dr Aafia Siddiqui, an American-educated Pakistani cognitive neuroscientist imprisoned in the US.

Two suicide bombers on Monday stormed the crowded court complex in the city of Peshawar and opened indiscriminate firing on the policemen performing guard duty at the entrance.  One suicide bomber threw a grenade in the court room of [....]