Pakistan blames India’s spy agency for twin suicide blasts as toll rises to 65

NEW DELHI,OCTO 1 : Pakistan’s Interior minister Sarfaraz Bugti in Balochistan’s capital, Quetta, claimed that India’s Research & Analysis Wing (RAW) was involved in the suicide attack.

“Civil, military and all other institutions will jointly strike against the elements involved in the Mastung suicide bombing. RAW is involved in the suicide attack,” the Pakistan minister said.

Police on Saturday filed a report to launch an investigation, saying they had sent DNA from the suicide bomb attacker to be analysed.

A total of 60 people were killed and more than 60 others were injured in a grisly suicide blast in Balochistan near the Madina Masjid at a place called Mastung.

In the second bomb attack that took place in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Hangu, targeting a police station’s mosque, five people were killed, and 12 others were injured as the mosque’s roof collapsed in the explosion’s impact.

On Saturday, the Dawn quoted a statement from the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) that said an FIR with murder charges and terrorism offences has been filed against an unidentified attacker.

“No group has claimed responsibility for the attack so far, however, the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), responsible for some of the bloodiest attacks in Pakistan, denied its involvement,” the report added.

The CTD said the investigation into the incident was ongoing and no arrests have been made so far.

Meanwhile, the caretaker government of Balochistan announced three days of mourning in the wake of the attack.

-PTI