Will continue co-operation with Pakistan in fight against terrorism: John Kirby

He said that the US and its partners in that region recognised that terrorism was a shared challenge and a shared responsibility for all to work together.

The minister said that the enemy was coward and it did want to create chaos in the country.

“These are matters for both India and Pakistan to work out”, Kirby said. “The terrorists who were earlier operating on streets have fled after their networks were smashed”.

The United States is strongly committed to supporting Pakistan in its anti-terrorism efforts and would continue to work hard at the bilateral relationship which is very important to overcome common challenges, a State Department Spokesman said.

Resorting to rhetoric ahead of the first-ever NSA-level talks, Pakistan has accused India of involvement in terrorism, saying “enemy” within the country gets money from overseas to create law and order problem. “Success is our ultimate destiny because we are on the right side and terrorists are wrongly using the name of Islam for targeting innocent children, women and general public”, he added.

Mandi Bahauddin-Interior Minister Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan on Wednesday said that the probe into the Attock blast will take some more time but security agencies are closing in on the suspects. “We have to win the war against terror at all costs”, he added. He said government has allocated Rs 45 billion to civil armed forces for increasing their capacity to achieve their objective of eliminating terrorism. “This is the same enemy into whose eyes we look at the Wagah border daily”.