Jakarta: United States (US) Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Monday condemned the “cowardly” attack against US consulate personnel in Pakistan and praised local authorities’ response to the incident.
While visiting Jakarta, Clinton said that she wanted to “very clearly condemn the attack on our consulate personnel”.
“We deplore the cowardly act of suicide bombing and terrorist attacks that have affected so many people around the world and which we must all stand against,” she told reporters.
Clinton declined to blame the attack on any militant group but praised the response of authorities in Pakistan, whose strategic partnership with the United States has repeatedly been plunged into crisis in recent years.
“The information I have is that the Pakistani authorities responded very appropriately,” she said.
Clinton, in line with earlier US accounts, said that both US citizens and Pakistanis employed at the consulate were injured when a suicide bomber rammed into their van.
She said that some of the injured had been airlifted to hospitals in the Pakistani capital Islamabad.
It is to be mentioned here that at least two people were killed and 21 others injured after the suicide bomber hit a US embassy car near UN office in Peshawar, Pakistan’s city frequently targeted by militants from border areas of the country.
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