Islamabad. Pakistan’s Shahbaz government has said that it will give a strict response to the suicide attack in Islamabad on Friday. Pakistan has blamed the Taliban government of Afghanistan for this attack. On Friday, a suicide bomber blew himself up in a Shia mosque in Islamabad. At least 31 people were killed and about 169 people were injured in this attack. Pakistan’s Defense Minister Khawaja Asif has said that the Shahbaz government will respond strictly to this attack.
According to media reports, Defense Minister Asif targeted the Afghan Taliban for the attack and said that the terrorist involved in the attack had previously gone to Afghanistan. Asif wrote on social media platform X, it has been proved that the terrorist involved in the attack had traveled to Afghanistan. Asif said that those who killed the worshipers in the mosque were enemies of the religion and the country. He said that security forces confronted the attacker, after which he blew himself up in the last line of worshippers.
Asif also tried to link India’s name to this suicide attack without any evidence and said that the nexus between India and Afghanistan is being exposed. Along with this, Asif refused any talks with the Taliban government in Afghanistan. He said that Pakistan will have to eliminate terrorist camps inside Afghanistan and the government will respond to this attack with full force. India has condemned the blast and expressed grief over the loss of lives. India also rejected Khawaja Asif’s propaganda. The Ministry of External Affairs said that it is unfortunate that Pakistan is deluding itself by blaming others for its domestic ills instead of seriously solving the problems troubling its social fabric. India rejects any such allegation which is as baseless as it is useless.
Looking at the incidents happening in Pakistan in the last few months, it is clear that the Shahbaz government and the military leadership of the country have been trying to blame India for all their failures. The Taliban, whom Islamabad holds responsible for attacks in the country, were once big faces of the Pakistani army. During the war with America, Taliban leaders got safe haven in Pakistan. When the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in August 2021, the picture of the then ISI Chief drinking tea in Kabul went viral across the world.