Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has warned Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers about targeting terrorist hideouts inside the war-torn neighbouring country if the latter were unable to rein in anti-Pakistan militants. In an interview with Voice of America, the defence minister said that in his visit to Afghanistan in late-February, he reminded the Taliban administration to live up to their cross-border security commitments forbidding terrorists from using Afghan soil to plan.
Any further increase in terrorist attacks in Pakistan is due to the crisis unfolding in neighbouring Afghanistan further poses serious security challenges.
Multiple blasts and firing kill 62 in Pakistan; IS, Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan claims responsibility
The Blast Was Claimed By Both The Local Affiliate Of The Islamic State Terror Group And By Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA), A Splinter Group Of The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan. PTI | Updated on: 24 Jun 2017, 08:07:23 AM
Peshawar/ Karachi:
Twin blasts tore through a market crowded with Eid shoppers in a mainly Shia town, a suicide bomber blew up his explosives-laden car and militants opened fire on police in separate attacks in Pakistan’s three major cities on Friday, killing 62 people and wounding nearly 100.
The suicide bomber blew up his explosives-laden car near Inspector General of Police Ehsan Mehboob’s office in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province, killing at least 13 people, including seven policemen, and wounding 21 others.