Pakistan condemns Kabul terror attack

Foreign Office (FO) said in a statement that "Pakistan strongly condemns the dastardly terrorist acts in Kabul".

Updated: July 24, 2016 1:17 AM IST

By Press Trust of India

Pakistan condemns Kabul terror attack

Islamabad, Jul 23: Pakistan today condemned the terrorist attack in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul which killed 80 people. Foreign Office (FO) said in a statement that “Pakistan strongly condemns the dastardly terrorist acts in Kabul”.

“The government and the people of Pakistan extend their sincere condolences and profound sympathies to the families of the bereaved people and convey their earnest prayers and wishes for early recovery of those injured in this heinous act of terrorism,” it said.

Congress President Sonia Gandhi today strongly condemned the gruesome terror attack on peaceful demonstrators in Kabul, Afghanistan that killed over 61 and injured hundreds of others. (ALSO READ- Afghanistan blast: 80 dead as ISIS claims twin blasts during Kabul protest)

Expressing grave concern and grief, she said, though several cities of the world have been attacked in the last one month by practitioners of “organized and mindless” terrorism, “it will only strengthen our resolve to stand united and decisively fight the forces of division and terror, irrespective of their faith or belief”.

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