INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Pakistan strongly condemns twin terrorist attacks in KabulISLAMABAD: Pakistan has strongly condemned the twin
suicide attacks in Kabul on Monday in which many precious human lives were lost and a number of innocent injured."We are distressed and
grieved at the loss of precious lives in this dreadful terrorist attacks", said the foreign office statement."We express our deepest
sympathies and heartfelt condolences to the families and friends of those who have lost their loved ones", it said.At least 25 people were
killed, including Agence France-Presse chief photographer for Afghanistan Shah Marai and eight other journalists, when two suicide blasts
ripped through Kabul.The attacks, claimed by Daesh, are the deadliest to have targeted the media in Afghanistan since the fall of the
Taliban in 2001, according to Reporters Without Borders.In a separate attack 11 children were killed and 16 people wounded, including
foreign and Afghan security force members, when a suicide attacker exploded his bomb-laden car near a convoy in the southern province of
Kandahar, officials said."The government and people of Pakistan express their support and solidarity with their Afghan brethren in this hour
of grief.Pakistan reiterates its condemnation of terrorism in all its forms and manifestations and resolves to fight this menace till its
elimination," statement said."We are confident that the resolve of brave Afghan people to defeat terrorism cannot be weakened by such
cowardly attacks", it added.
