Kasi had been killed earlier in the day and the Jamaat-ul-Ahrar group (The Party of Freedom Fighters), which split from the Pakistani Taliban two years ago, also claimed responsibility for his murder.
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Afridi said most of the dead were lawyers who had gathered after Kasi’s body was brought to the hospital.
The city has seen a spate of killings, including lawyers, in recent weeks putting the government come under increasing pressure to improve security and crackdown on extremist violence.
“No one will be allowed to disrupt the peace of the province”, Sharif said. Police said it was a suicide attack where eight kilogrammes of explosives were used.
Baluchistan and to target the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, an initiative that includes infrastructure work. While lawyers in Lahore staged a protest wearing black armbands chanting slogans against terrorism. Two unidentified men opened fire at Advocate Kasi’s vehicle near Quetta’s Mengal Chowk on Manno Jan road as he left his home in the morning for work, police officials said.
After the hospital blast, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and chief of army staff Gen Raheel Sharif both went to Quetta for talks with security officials.
“The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan Jamaat-ur-Ahrar takes responsibility for this attack, and pledges to continue carrying out such attacks”.
“Today’s bombing of a hospital in Pakistan is despicable”.
DEATH TOLL IN in the suicide bomb explosion at Civil Hospital in Quetta on Monday has gone up to 93. however official maintained that 71 people have died and 108 are still critically injured.
Quetta is the capital of the province of Baluchistan, which is home to a number of militant groups, according to Abdul.
Lawyers across Pakistan have promised to strike in sympathy with the victims on Tuesday.
A journalist holds a poster bearing an image of a news cameraman killed in a suicide bombing during a rally to pay tribute to Quetta victims.
Anwalullah Kakar, the government spokesman in southwestern Baluchistan province, says an investigation is underway.
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Baluchistan has always been hit by insurgency.
