Pakistan says Dasu bus attack that killed Chinese workers was a suicide bombing

Name: Nine Chinese nationals among 13 killed in Pakistan bus blast
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Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said Pakistani Taliban militants, with links to al-Qaeda and Islamic State, carried out the July 14 attack

They were backed by intelligence agencies in India and Afghanistan, he added

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Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi (R) and Javed Iqbal, chief of the Counter Terrorism Department in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, speak about the investigation into last month’s deadly bus blast. Photo: AFP

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Published: 12:40am, 13 Aug 2021Updated: 3:40am, 13 Aug 2021

A bus blast last month that killed 13 people, including nine Chinese workers, was a suicide bombing by Islamist militants backed by the Indian and Afghan intelligence agencies, Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said on Thursday.

The minister said an investigation showed there was a “nexus of Indian RAW and Afghan NDS” in the attack, referring to the two countries‘ intelligence agencies.

The July 14 blast hit a bus carrying workers to a dam construction site in northern Pakistan. Two Pakistani soldiers were also among the dead.

An Indian government official said the charge was baseless and said Pakistan has made similar accusations repeatedly in the past. The Afghan foreign ministry could not immediately be reached for comment.

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Nine Chinese nationals among 13 killed in Pakistan bus blast

Qureshi, addressing a news conference in Islamabad together with the head of the investigation team, said Pakistan had data evidence to back up their determination that the intelligence agencies from the two neighbours were involved.