Peshawar Christian colony attackers were foreigners: Nisar

Interior minister claims Centre had shared two intelligence reports on potential attacks with K-P government

Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar on Saturday said the four militants who attacked Peshawar's Christian Colony a day earlier were foreigners.

Responding to a question while speaking to mediamen at Mardan District Hospital, Nisar said, "It is yet to be ascertained which countries the attackers belonged to." The interior minister was visiting the injured victims of Friday’s blast.

Further, Nisar said the Pakistani nation will not be subdued by terrorism and the war on terror will continue till militancy is eliminated from the country’s soil. “We are not going to be subdued by terror. Terrorists have been defeated by our security forces, however, their facilitators have not been cleared yet."

At least 14 people were killed and more than 50 wounded on Friday when a suicide bomber targeted a court in Mardan in a second deadly attack on the legal community in less than a month.



The interior minister claimed the federal government had dispatched two intelligence reports, indicating imminent threats to courts and to the provincial government of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) before the attack.

The security czar lauded K-P police personnel for their courage and valiantly fighting terror but held the provincial government responsible for Friday’s blast.

“Preemptive measures should be taken to thwart terrorism and in this regard collective efforts are required on the part of federal and provincial governments to completely eliminate terrorism from our soil”

The interior minister went on to say that the war against terror was being fought for the country’s stability. “Playing politics on terrorism is equivalent to playing with the country’s future,” he said.