KARACHI: The core committee of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Monday condemned the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) over the attack on Karachi’s Jinnah International airport, a statement issued by the party said.

“The PTI core committee, under the chairmanship of Imran Khan met today and condemned the government's total failure to protect its citizens and critical installations from terrorist attacks. The core committee also condemned the TTP for the attack on Karachi airport,” a press release issued by the party said.

“It was a complete security and intel failure,” the statement said, adding that “lessons from the Mehran base incident were not learnt".

PTI chief Imran Khan had earlier criticised the government’s failure to provide security to citizens.

His statement had come on Twitter in relation to the attack on the airport.

At least 18 people were killed in the assault launched by Pakistani Taliban militants at the airport which lasted for over five hours.

Ten terrorists were also killed during the operation carried out by security forces to tackle the assault.