Pakistan strongly condemns twin terrorist attacks in Kabul

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has strongly condemned the twin suicide attacks in Kabul on Monday in which many precious human lives were lost and a number of innocent injured."We are distressed and grieved at the loss of precious lives in this dreadful terrorist attacks", said the foreign office statement."We express our deepest sympathies and heartfelt condolences to the families and friends of those who have lost their loved ones", it said.At least 25 people were killed, including Agence France-Presse chief photographer for Afghanistan Shah Marai and eight other journalists, when two suicide blasts ripped through Kabul.The attacks, claimed by Daesh, are the deadliest to have targeted the media in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, according to Reporters Without Borders.In a separate attack 11 children were killed and 16 people wounded, including foreign and Afghan security force members, when a suicide attacker exploded his bomb-laden car near a convoy in the southern province of Kandahar, officials said."The government and people of Pakistan express their support and solidarity with their Afghan brethren in this hour of grief.Pakistan reiterates its condemnation of terrorism in all its forms and manifestations and resolves to fight this menace till its elimination," statement said."We are confident that the resolve of brave Afghan people to defeat terrorism cannot be weakened by such cowardly attacks", it added.