"Four of them were Uzbeks and two were Punjabi Taliban," he told the AFP news agency.
Hours earlier, a statement purportedly from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan had claimed responsibility for the assault on Karachi airport, which killed 39 people.
The group is closely allied with the Pakistan Taliban - which also claimed responsibility - and al-Qaeda, part of a nexus of terrorist groups operating from havens close to the border with Afghanistan.
For militants to storm such an important facility, the country's busiest airport serving a city of 20million people, is a huge embarrassment to Pakistan's security forces and a government which had staked its reputation on bringing the Taliban to the table.
Within hours, air force jets were pounding militant strongholds.
The resumption of drone strikes, however, is the clearest indication that peace talks have failed.
The CIA's drone programme is hugely controversial in Pakistan. It has serves as a rallying call for right-wing religious leaders who accuse Washington of infringing Pakistani sovereignty, even though strikes are carried out with the permission of Islamabad.
Missiles have wiped out much of the senior leadership of al-Qaeda in the region. The head of the Pakistan Taliban, Hakimullah Mehsud, was killed in a drone strike last year.
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