ISLAMABAD, May 15: The government on Tuesday announced that the Peshawar suicide attack that left at least 22 people dead was not linked to the recent killing of Taliban commander Mullah Dadullah by Nato forces in Afghanistan.

“We have found no clue suggesting that the attack was in reaction to the Taliban leader’s killing in Afghanistan,” interior ministry’s spokesman Brig Javed Iqbal Cheema told reporters at a press conference.

"Dadullah was an Afghan national operating from Afghanistan and he died there. Pakistan has nothing to do with his death," he said.

He, however, said that Tuesday’s suicide bombing might have links with terrorists operating in Afghanistan and Pakistan’s troubled Waziristan region.

“It is confirmed that Peshawar bombing was a suicide attack as investigators have found two severed legs and nuts and bolts, things normally used in such attacks,” he said.

Brig Cheema said that a team of the FIA had left for Peshawar to look into the blast.

He said 25 people were killed and 30 others injured in the bombing, and expressed the confidence that those behind the dastardly act would soon be arrested and brought to justice.

“Such attacks could not deter the government from continuing its war against terrorism and extremism,” he pledged.