By Holly Yan, CNN
updated 4:34 AM EDT, Tue June 10, 2014
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- The latest attack targeted the Airport Security Forces, an official says
- Another attack this week left 36 people dead at Karachi's Jinnah International Airport
- All flights were suspended Tuesday
(CNN) -- For the second time in two days, Pakistan's largest and busiest airport was forced to shut down after militants launched a brazen attack on airport security forces.
Tuesday's attack targeted the Airport Security Forces camp near Karachi's Jinnah International Airport, the airport's manager told CNN's Saima Mohsin .
But the airport itself is safe, Pakistan's Civil Aviation Authority said Tuesday.
"#Jinnah Airport is safe, #ASF academy is under attack," the aviation authority tweeted. It said flights have been suspended.
Late Sunday night, 10 militants stormed the same airport's cargo area, leading to an hours-long assault that left 36 people dead.
The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for that assault, saying the attack was retaliation for the death of former chief Hakimullah Mehsud, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike in November in North Waziristan.
The militant group, also known as the TTP, had warned of more carnage starting Tuesday.
Another TTP member, Shahidullah Shahid, said earlier this week that the group would engage "in a full-out war with the Pakistani state, starting on June 10."
History of terror
The Pakistani Taliban, formally known as Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan, has long conducted an insurgency against the Pakistani government.
"Their primary target is the Pakistani state and its military," said Raza Rumi of the Jinnah Institute, a Pakistani think tank.
"It resents the fact that (Pakistan) has an alliance with the West, and it wants Sharia to be imposed in Pakistan."
The U.S. Justice Department charged Mehsud in 2010 for his alleged involvement in a 2009 bombing at the United States' Forward Operating Base Chapman in Khost, Afghanistan. The attack killed seven U.S. citizens, including five CIA officers and a member of Jordanian intelligence.
Mehsud took over from Baitullah Mehsud, a fellow clan member, in 2009 after the latter was killed in a U.S. drone strike. Four years later, Hakimullah Mehsud suffered the same fate.
CNN's Sophia Saifi and Khushbu Shah contributed to this report.
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