KARACHI, March 19: The chairman of the National Peoples Party, Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi, has condemned the terrorist attack on a church in Islamabad, in which five people were killed and about 40 injured.

Talking to newsmen here on Tuesday, he blamed India for the terrorist attack, saying it wanted to divert the world attention from its atrocities. He condoled with the the bereaved families and prayed for early recovery of the injured.

Mr Jatoi said India had been heightening tension on the borders since December last and had refused to respond positively to the steps taken by Pakistan to defuse tension.

He said India had been committing terrorism in occupied Kashmir and had killed more than 80,000 Kashmiri men, women and children since 1989.—PPI