PM postpones all engagements after Quetta police academy attack
PM Nawaz will inquire about the health of those wounded in Quetta terrorist attack.
ISLAMABAD (Web Desk) - Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has postponed all of his engagements in Islamabad, and left for Quetta today (Tuesday).
During his visit, he will inquire about the health of those wounded in Quetta terrorist attack.
The Prime Minister will also chair a high-level meeting in Quetta with regards to law and order situation
He has directed the federal and provincial authorities to bring the perpetrators to task as soon as possible.
Over 60 people, most of them police recruits, were martyred and dozens more wounded when terrorists wearing suicide vests stormed a police academy near Quetta in the troubled southwestern province of Balochistan overnight.
Inspector General Frontier Corps Balochistan Major General Sher Afghan said the attackers of police training centre belong to Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Al-Alami who were receiving directions from Afghanistan.
The United States has also condemned the attack on police training center in Quetta.
State Department spokesperson John Kirby said his country stands with Pakistan in this critical hour. He extended condolences to the relatives of dead and expressed sympathies with the injured.
Governor Punjab Malik Muhammad Rafique Rajwana, Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif and Information Minister Pervaiz Rashid have also denounced the Quetta attack.
