ISLAMABAD, (Xinhua) -- Pakistan strongly condemned the
"heinous and reprehensible" suicide attacks that targeted innocent
civilians at a voters' registration center in capital Kabul of Afghanistan on
Sunday.
The Afghan Public Health Ministry said death toll from the deadly Kabul
suicide attack reached 52 and 112 others were wounded.
"We are grieved at the loss of precious innocent lives in this
brutal act of terrorism," the Pakistani Foreign Ministry said.
T
he ministry's spokesman Mohammad Faisal expressed sympathies and
condolences to the bereaved families and prayed for the speedy recovery of the
injured.
"Pakistan is confident that such attacks would not deter the
resolve of the Afghan people to determine their own future through the exercise
of their right to vote," the spokesman said.
He said Pakistan reiterates its unequivocal condemnation of terrorism
in all its forms and manifestations and expresses solidarity with the
government and people of Afghanistan in this hour of grief and sorrow.
Reports suggested that the Islamic State group claimed responsible for
the Kabul attack.
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