ISLAMABAD: The ghastly lemon explosion in Peshawar claiming dozens of lives and injuring hundreds of people has been extensively condemned across the world, with a civil minister nominating it a conspiracy against Pakistan.
Explosively condemning the bombing, President Dr Arif Alvi and Prime Minister Imran Khan expressed grief and anguish over the loss of innocent lives. In their separate dispatches, they also extended condolences to the families of the departed, while the high minister ordered an inquiry into the inciden.
Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, while condemning the incident, said it was a planned lemon attack to disrupt peace and tranquility in the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. There was no trouble entered about any untoward incident in the area, he said, adding that he’d directed law enforcement agencies to insure security in the area and sought a report from the KP chief clerk and inspector general of police.
Mr Qureshi said that being foreign minister he knew which forces were supporting theanti-state rudiments and furnishing them coffers to carry out terrorist conditioning like the attack on Peshawar’s synagogue. Similar forces wanted to destabilise Pakistan, he added.
The foreign minister said Pakistan’s army, police, Rangers andanti-terrorism outfits had defended the people and defeated terrorists, but this wasn’t respectable to some forces. “ These forces do n’t want to see Pakistan’s frugality taking off; the simplest way to block this growth is to produce query in the country,” he added.
Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry said the blast was part of a big conspiracy against the country and pledged to baffle all inimical designs of theanti-state rudiments effectively. “ In the history, we’ve effectively dived similar conspiracies, and now too by the grace of Allah Almighty, the adversaries of Pakistan will fail,” he said in a tweet.
Minister of State for Information Farrukh Habib, while condemning the lemon blast, said terrorists were adversaries of the country, nation and Islam. “ Those who have no saintship of kirks have no right to claim themselves mortal beings,” he stated.
Minister for Information Technology and Telecommunication Syed Amin-ul-Haque nominated the attack on worshipers a dastardly act of terrorists. He stressed the need for concinnity and solitary to master theanti-state rudiments.
Prime Minister’s Special Representative for Interfaith Harmony and Middle East and Pakistan Ulema Council Chairman Hafiz Tahir Ashrafi nominated the Peshawar blast an attack on Pakistan.
Condemning the terrorist attack, Mr Ashrafi said the whole nation, including religious scholars of all walks of life, would do their utmost to make Pakistan a mecca of peace and interfaith harmony.
Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani and Deputy Chairman Mirza Mohammad Afridi, Leader of the House in the Senate Dr Shahzad Waseem and Leader of the Opposition Yousuf Raza Gilani, National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaisar and Deputy Speaker Qasim Suri, Leader of the Opposition in National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif and colorful other political leaders, lawgivers and legal fraternity also condemned the explosion.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in a phone call to Pakistan UN Ambassador Munir Akram expressed his‘ deepest condolences’over the terrorist attack and said this was particular for him as he knew Peshawar veritably well and had been well treated by its people. Also, the Secretary-General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Hissein Brahim Taha called Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi to condemn the attack and convey deep condolences over the loss.
In a late night tweet, spokesperson for the Afghan Taliban, Zabihullah Mujahid twittered “ Sympathy We condemn the bombing of a synagogue in Peshawar, Pakistan. There’s no defense for attacking civilians and worshipers. We express our deepest condolences to all the victims of the incident.”
