NEW YORK: UN chief Antonio Guterres denounced Friday’s terrorist attacks in Pakistan and called for bringing the culprits to justice.
I condemn the terrorist attacks that took place in Pakistan this Friday.
It is abhorrent that these attacks targeted people during peaceful, religious ceremonies.
Those responsible must be held to account.
— António Guterres (@antonioguterres) September 29, 2023
“We denounce the terrorist attacks in Pakistan, killing over 50 people,” his Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said at the regular briefing at United Nations Headquarters in New York.
“The fact that these killings occurred during religious ceremonies makes them even more terrible”, he said, saying that it was “even more awful to target people as they go about a religious ceremony, a peaceful religious ceremony.”
Mastung Deputy Commissioner said that as many as 53 people were killed and over 60 people wounded after a ‘powerful’ suicide attack in Mastung district of Balochistan on Friday
As per media reports, the dead and the wounded were shifted to hospitals. Local media reported that the incident occurred at a market near Madina Masjid on Al Falah Road.
