Lahore: Less than 24 hours after a car exploded near Red Fort to kill 12 people, Pakistan was rocked by a major blast in Islamabad on Tuesday.

It was outside an Islamabad court that a powerful explosion ripped through a parked vehicle, with several lawyers among 12 deceased and 25 injured victims. ADVERTISEMENT

Even as Pakistani officials said it was a suicide attack, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif turned to India and blamed its neighbouring country for the killer Islamabad explosion.

Sharif also alleged New Delhi’s role in Monday’s attack on a cadet college in Wana, near the border with Afghanistan.

Sharif blamed “Indian-sponsored terrorist proxies” for the twin attacks, the Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) reported. “These attacks are a continuation of India’s state-sponsored terro

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