Pakistan Condemns Suicide Attack In Iran

Pakistani president and prime minister have strongly condemned the suicide attack in Iran on Sunday in which dozens of people lost their lives and many others were injured.
  
In a statement, President Asif Ali Zardari described the incident as gruesome, barbaric and typically bearing the signatures of a cowardly enemy on the run, Xinhua reported.
  
The president said that Pakistan will continue to support Iran both bilateral and at the regional level to curb militancy and exterminate militants.
  
The president also expressed heartfelt sympathy with the government and people of Iran. He also prayed for those who lost their lives in the incident.
  
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Sunday also condemned the ghastly act of terrorism in Iran. The prime minister in a statement expressed his solidarity with the government and the people of Iran.
   The prime minister said that two brotherly countries of Iran and Pakistan have bilateral cooperation to root out extremism and terrorism from their soils.
  
A suicide bomber killed seven commanders of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards and up to 42 other people on Sunday in an attack that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad charged had been plotted from neighboring Pakistan.
  
Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik said Monday that the mastermind of the attack is not in Pakistan.
  
The chief prosecutor in the majority ethnic Baloch Sistan- Balochistan province, Mohammad Marziah, said that Abdolmalek Rigi, the head of the shadowy rebel group Jundallah, had "accepted the responsibility" for the attack.