Pakistan Prime Minister vows 'forceful' anti-terror fight after bomber kills over 70

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif told the parliament on Wednesday that his government will pursue anti-terror fight with more strength, days after a bomber killed over 70 people in the southwestern city of Quetta.

Daesh and a breakaway faction of the Pakistani Taliban claimed the responsibility for the attack on Aug. 8 that also prompted high level security meetings to explore ways how to counter the threat by the terrorists who are now killing civilians.

Sarfaraz Bugti, Home Minister in Balochistan, of which Quetta is the capital, claimed involvement of foreign hand to destabilize the natural resources-rich province.

The Prime Minister, delivering statement on the Quetta terrorist attack in the National Assembly, lower house of the parliament, called for national unity to defeat the remaining terrorist who are targeting innocent people in sheer frustration.

"I want to announce in the parliament that the nation is united in the war against terrorism and this war will be taken to its logical conclusion at all costs."

The opposition leader, Syed Khurshid Shah, and other lawmakers also spoke on the occasion said the Quetta carnage has shocked the whole nation and underlined the need for the effective implementation of the anti-terror National Action Plan.

The Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali informed the parliament about the progress in investigation into the attack.

"We have found some clues regarding the terrorist bombing that have been shared with the prime minister," he said.

"I am confident to reach the perpetrators soon," the minister said, adding that the terrorists conducted the blast in a very scientific manner.

A suicide bomber detonated his vest when lawyers gathered outside the city's main hospital to receive the dead body of their president who was also killed by a militant group hours earlier of the suicide attack. Police say that over 20 lawyers among those killed in the attack.

Nawaz Sharif told the lawmakers that terrorist incidents cannot deter the resolve of the nation in the fight against terrorism.

"We will move forward with full strength and completely eliminate terrorism from the country. We will have to defeat this ideology because they are the enemy of the country," he said.

Source : XINHUA