Farooq Rehmani in harshest terms condemns suicide attack in Peshawar

ISLAMABAD, Jan 31 (SABAH): Muhammad Farooq Rehmani chairman Jammu and Kashmir People’s Freedom League and ex-convener APHC-AJK, has strongly condemned the terroristic and suicide attack on Peshawar police line mosque and expressed great concern over at least 63 worshipers who were killed and more than 157 got injured owing to a most tragic episode.

He expressed deep sympathies with the families of the martyred and injured citizens of Peshawar in this brutal suicidal assault. 

A day earlier, a suicide bomber blew himself up at a mosque in Peshawar’s Police Lines during the afternoon prayers, police and medics had said.

Officials confirmed that it was a suicide attack and that the bomber was standing in the front row at the time of the explosion.

Peshawar Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Muhammad Ijaz Khan said the bomber detonated his load the moment hundreds of people had lined up for prayers.