Bomber was Afghan national: Pak

Afghan nationals carried out two suicide bombings in Pakistan this week, including one in the capital Islamabad, Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi said Thursday, amid sharpening tensions between the South Asian neighbours over militant violence.

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A suicide bombing outside an Islamabad court Tuesday killed 12 people and wounded 27, one of the capital’s deadliest attacks in years. Militants also stormed a military-run school in Wana, killing three people before security forces rescued students and shot the assailants dead.

Both the bombers involved in the attacks have been identified as Afghans, he told parliament ina session carried live on television.

“It is our major, serious concern,” Naqvi said, adding that Pakistani authorities had time and again taken up the issue of security with the Afghan Taliban administration in Kabul.

He blamed the Afghan Taliban for supporting Islamist militants who attack Pakistani forces.