President strongly condemns Mastung bus attack

ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari has strongly condemned gun attack on a bus in Mastung on Tuesday evening, in which scores of people lost their lives and some others sustained injuries.

The bus, which was carrying Zaireen (pilgrims) and was on its way to Iran from Quetta, was attacked by gunmen at Lak Pass, some 25 kms from Quetta, in Mastung, Balochistan.

The President termed the attack as inhuman and a brutal act of terrorism and said such cowardly acts cannot dent the government's resolve to fight this menace to the finish. He expressed his deep sense of shock and grief over the loss of lives in this brutal act of terrorism and conveyed his sympathies to the families of the victims.

The President prayed to Allah Almighty to rest the departed souls in eternal peace and grant courage to bear the irreparable loss with fortitude.