Express Tribune: UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon said Sunday he was “appalled by the escalating terrorist violence in Pakistan,” after 19 Shia pilgrims died in a car bomb and 21 kidnapped soldiers were killed.
Ban “condemns in particular the continued violent targeting of religious minorities,” according to a statement from his spokesman, Martin Nesirky.
He “also strongly condemns the killing of 21 members of a government-backed tribal police force,” kidnapped this week after near Peshawar.
“These cruel acts of violence cannot be justified by any cause or grievance,” the statement emphasised, saying the perpetrators “should be brought to justice.”
Ban assured Pakistan’s government and its people of “the solidarity of the United Nations” as well as of “its continued support for their efforts to defend their country’s institutions and freedoms in the face of the scourge of terrorism.”
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