The wave of terrorist strikes in Pakistan in the past few days, posted upon here, leads back to the Taliban, according to Pakistani officials and reported by Dawn.

They said six men arrested in Dera Ismail Khan at the weekend told interrogators about a web of militants, connected to a senior Taliban commander, who were plotting suicide and car bomb attacks across the country.

“During the investigations, we have got good clues suggesting the bombings were by militants based in the Waziristan tribal region,” a senior security official told AFP on condition of anonymity.

Security sources said the six men, who were arrested in raids in Dera Ismail Khan on Sunday, had given details about a network of insurgents in Waziristan planning bombings.

The men were linked to Baitullah Mahsud, a wanted Taliban commander allegedly in charge of thousands of fighters operating in the South and North Waziristan regions, the officials said.

“They told interrogators that Baitullah was unhappy with (the) army’s killing of tribesmen in the name of action against the Taliban and Al Qaeda and he planned revenge attacks in other Pakistani cities,” an official familiar with the interrogation told AFP.

If true this bit of news complicates the Pakistani decision to reach a peace deal with the Taliban late last year.  It is suspected the Taliban was behind these waves of strikes in retaliation to a Pakistani attack on a Taliban hideout and training camp, as well as Pakistan’s role in a recent Coalition strike against the Taliban as the Taliban crossed into Afghanistan.