(Top left) Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan visits the Combined Military Hospital in Quetta on Sunday to inquire after the health of those injured in the Mastung blast. (Top right) Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz president Shahbaz Sharif talks to the media after offering his condolences at Sarawan House. (Bottom) Caretaker Prime Minister Nasirul Mulk chairs a meeting on law and order at Governor House.—Agencies
(Top left) Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan visits the Combined Military Hospital in Quetta on Sunday to inquire after the health of those injured in the Mastung blast. (Top right) Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz president Shahbaz Sharif talks to the media after offering his condolences at Sarawan House. (Bottom) Caretaker Prime Minister Nasirul Mulk chairs a meeting on law and order at Governor House.—Agencies

As the nation observed a day of mourning over recent terrorist attacks on election candidates in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa just a few days before the general elections, the caretaker prime minister, Senate chairman and political party heads arrived in the city on Sunday to condole the Mastung killings.

The death toll in the Mastung suicide bombing reached 149 on Sunday when officials found that some bodies had not been brought to any hospital.

The national flag remained at half-mast on government buildings across the country to mourn the death of all those who lost their lives in terrorist attacks at Peshawar on July 10 and in Mastung and Bannu on July 13.

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