ISLAMABAD, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif told the parliament on Wednesday that his government will pursue anti-terror fight with more strength, days after a bomber killed over 70 people in the southwestern city of Quetta.
Daesh and a breakaway faction of the Pakistani Taliban claimed the responsibility for the attack on Aug. 8 that also prompted high level security meetings to explore ways how to counter the threat by the terrorists who are now killing civilians.
Sarfaraz Bugti, Home Minister in Balochistan, of which Quetta is the capital, claimed involvement of foreign hand to destabilize the natural resources-rich province.
The Prime Minister, delivering statement on the Quetta terrorist attack in the National Assembly, lower house of the parliament, called for national unity to defeat the remaining terrorist who are targeting innocent people in sheer frustration.
"I want to announce in the parliament that the nation is united in the war against terrorism and this war will be taken to its logical conclusion at all costs."
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