ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Pakistan has condemned the assassination of the Chief of the Political Bureau of Hamas Ismail Haniyeh in Iran’s Capital Tehran on Wednesday.
“We extend our condolences to his family and the people of Palestine,” said the Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ambassador Mumtaz Zahra Baloch.
The Spokesperson said that Pakistan condemns terrorism in all its forms and manifestations including extrajudicial and extraterritorial killings irrespective of the motives.
Ambassador Mumtaz Zahra Baloch further said that we are deeply shocked by the timing of this reckless act, coinciding with the inauguration of the President of Iran, an event attended by several foreign dignitaries including the Deputy Prime Minister of Pakistan Ishaq Dar.
Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said that Pakistan views with serious concern the growing Israeli adventurism in the region. Its latest acts constitute a dangerous escalation in an already volatile region and undermine efforts for peace, she said.
The Hamas leader and former Prime Minister of Gaza Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in an Israeli attack on his residence in Tehran in the early hours of the morning.
Iran’s state-owned news agency IRNA said that one of his bodyguards was also killed in the attack.
