Feb. 1 (EUROPA PRESS) –
Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Asif has stressed the need for a national consensus to carry out an anti-terrorist operation, days after a suicide bombing inside a mosque killed 100 people and injured 200 others.
“We need to put our home in order. It is not the war of any sect, but of the entire nation,” Asif declared at the Pakistani General Assembly, as reported by Geo TV.
In this sense, the head of Defense has remarked that the country “is alone in the war against terrorism”, at the same time that he has hoped that the situation in Afghan territory improves because “peace in Afghanistan and Pakistan are interrelated”.
For his part, the Interior Minister, Rana Sanaullah, has joined the condemnation, lamenting that “this attack is against Pakistan.” Thus, he has reported that the rescue operation in Peshawar had ended, having managed to remove all the rubble and the bodies of the victims.
Meanwhile, he has reaffirmed that the balance of fatalities may increase, since 27 of the injured are in a critical prognosis.
The ministers have brought to the present several attacks perpetrated years ago, such as the one that took place in a military school in 2014 that claimed the lives of 150 people and that “had not yet been forgotten”, adding that “several similar incidents occurred” in the region that “devoured numerous precious lives”.
Police in some Pakistani cities have intensified security measures on Tuesday, when police officers from Punjab, the country’s second largest province, announced a frustrated attack.
Between 15 and 20 armed people tried to attack a police station, but they have been controlled by the police force, so some “terrorists have suffered injuries in the retaliatory fire”, reports Geo TV.
