[Afghanistan] - Pakistan to attract IEA leader over Peshawar mosque bombing

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Islamabad will ask the supreme leader of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) to rein in militants in Pakistan after a suicide bombing
killed scores of police in a mosque, AFP reported on Saturday.Detectives have blamed an affiliate of the Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) for
Monday&s blast in Peshawar which killed more than 100 people inside a fortified police headquarters.Special assistant to Pakistan&s Prime
Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Faisal Karim Kundi, said delegations would be sent to Tehran and Kabul to &ask them to ensure that their soil is
not used by terrorists against Pakistan&.A senior Pakistani police official in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province where Monday&s blast took
place told AFP the Kabul delegation would hold &talks with the top brass&.&When we say top brass, it means… Afghan Taliban chief
Hibatullah Akhundzada,& the official said.On Wednesday, IEA&s Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi said that Pakistan should stop blaming
Afghanistan for its insecurity.Muttaqi said that the root of Pakistan&s security problems is in the country itself and should not be
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