Afghans carried out suicide attacks: Pak

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

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Both the bombers involved in the attacks have been identified as Afghans, Naqvi told parliament in a session carried live on television. There was no immediate comment from Kabul.

"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.

Naqvi was speaking after a suicide bomber blew himself up close to a police patrol outside a lower court in Islamabad on Tuesday, killing 12 people and wounding 27.