UNITED NATIONS, April 12: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has condemned Pakistan’s worst suicide bombing in nearly two decades and sent his deepest sympathy to the Pakistani people, his spokesman said on Wednesday.

“The Secretary General strongly condemns the vicious suicide attack carried out on Tuesday at a Muslim prayer service in Karachi” which left 57 Sunni Muslims dead, spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.

“There can be no justification of any kind for such violence against civilians,” he said in a statement on behalf of Mr Annan, who is currently on a visit to The Netherlands.

Mr Dujarric said the UN chief sent his “deepest sympathy to the government and people of Pakistan and to the families of the dozens of people reported killed and injured in this brutal attack.”—AFP