The Foreign Office (FO) Tuesday demanded Afghanistan’s interim government investigate the deadly suicide attack in Dera Ismail Khan that martyred more than 20 soldiers.
At least 23 soldiers embraced martyrdom when militants rammed an explosive-laden vehicle into a Pakistani military base, the army said, in an attack claimed by affiliates of the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
The suicide squad of six terrorists — all of whom were killed later — attacked the outpost in the DI Khan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) prov-ince — near the Afghan border — in the early hours of Tuesday, the military’s media wing said in a statement. In response, Foreign Secretary Syrus Sajjad Qazi summoned Afghanistan’s top diplomat in Islamabad to deliver Pakistan’s strong demarche.
“The attack[‘s] responsibility has been claimed by the Tehreek-e-Jihad Pakistan, a terrorist group affiliated with the TTP,” the Foreign Office said in a statement. The statement mentioned that the envoy was asked to immediately convey to the Afghan interim govt to fully investigate and take stern action against the perpetrators of the recent attack.
