ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif has cancelled his official trip to United States in the aftermath of a suicide attack on a park in Lahore that claimed lives of more than 70 innocent people, most of them women and children on Sunday.
According to a spokesman at Prime Minister Secretariat, the Premier was scheduled to leave for US for attending Nuclear Security Summit 2016 to be held on March 31 and April 1.
The PM had already cancelled his two-day UK tour on Sunday following the Lahore attack.
The Premier is set to take the nation into confidence in a televised speech over a crackdown to be launched against terrorists in the Punjab.
On Sunday night a suicide bomber blew himself up in Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park in a densely populated Allama Iqbal Town in Lahore, killing 72 people and injuring over 300 others.
The Taliban faction Jamaat-ul-Ahrar claimed responsibility for the suicide bomb attack in Lahore on Sunday, saying the target of its attack was Muslim Pakistan’s small Christian minority.
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