PM Nawaz arrives in Quetta after attack on police academy

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Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has arrived in Quetta and cancelled all official engagements after attack on police academy that killed 60 people.

The prime minister will chair a key meeting where he will be briefed by the concerned authorities about the law and order situation in the province after the attack on Police Training College.

He has directed the federal and provincial authorities to bring the perpetrators to task as soon as possible.

Over 60 people, most of them police recruits were martyred and dozens more wounded when terrorists wearing suicide vests stormed a police academy near Quetta in the troubled southwestern province of Balochistan overnight.

Inspector General Frontier Corps Balochistan Major General Sher Afghan said the attackers of police training centre belong to Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Al-Alami who were receiving directions from Afghanistan.