Afghan President Hamid Karzai vowed Wednesday to pursue all avenues available in taking action against Lashkar-e-Jangvi, a Pakistan-based militant group that claimed responsibility for Tuesday’s suicide bombing targeting Shiite Muslims.
"Lashkar-e-Jangvi has announced they are our enemies and of Afghans and Islam and humanity," Karzai said while visiting survivors of the attack in a Kabul hospital.
"We will follow it very seriously and will definitely pursue it with the government of Pakistan because it relates to our lives and the lives of these children lying in the hospital," he said.
Pakistani military spokesman Gen. Athar Abbas said Lashkar-e-Janghvi is behind brutal attacks on security forces. “They are being hunted down,” Abbas said.
Tuesday’s attack happened at a Shiite shrine in Kabul where worshipers were gathered for the holy day of Ashura. Officials said at least 56 people were killed and more than 150 others were wounded. Many of the dead were women and children.
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