Pakistan blames India, Afghanistan for deadly bus bombing

FM says attack that killed 13 people last month was a suicide attack ‘planned’ with Afghan, Indian intelligence support.

An attack on a bus in northern Pakistan last month that killed 10 Chinese labourers and three Pakistanis was a suicide attack carried out by a branch of the Pakistani Taliban, Pakistan’s foreign minister says, placing the blame for the bombing on the Indian and Afghan intelligence services. Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi was speaking at a press conference in the capital Islamabad on Thursday, and was flanked by Javed Iqbal, a senior counterterrorism police officer, and Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri, the foreign ministry’s spokesperson. “The explosive [Improved Explosive Device]-laden vehicle, the driver who did this entire attack, we found a thumb from the site and we found a finger and we found [other] body parts,” said Qureshi. “The suicide bomber, they were obviously his.”