Pakistan on Thursday blamed Afghan nationals for a suicide bombing in Islamabad earlier this week, as well as a separate deadly attack near the country’s northwestern frontier.

Pakistan Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi told a Senate session that the bomber behind Tuesday’s blast outside district court buildings in the capital was from Afghanistan.

“We have traced the Islamabad blast culprits. The suicide bomber was from Afghanistan," Naqvi said, without providing evidence to support the claim. When asked how the government would respond, he added, “It will be decided on a government-level what to do."

A faction of the Pakistani Taliban, known as the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), claimed responsibility for the Islamabad attack, marking the first major incident in the capital in nearly

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