Pakistan has strongly condemned the wave of explosions in electronic devices across Lebanon, terming it “terrorism”.

Addressing a weekly briefing in Islamabad, Foreign Office spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said: “Pakistan strongly condemns this week’s attacks in Lebanon, carried through detonation of electronic equipments. Use of cyber and electronic means to commit terrorism in foreign countries is reprehensible.

“We condemn terrorism in all forms and manifestations and offer our deepest condolences to the families of the victims and the people and the government of the Republic of Lebanon.”

 Mumtaz Zahra Baloch speaks to media on Sept 19, 2024. — DawnNewsTV
Mumtaz Zahra Baloch speaks to media on Sept 19, 2024. — DawnNewsTV

The FO highlighted that the “terror attacks are a manifestation of Israel’s alarming adventurism in the region, which has endangered regional peace and security”.

“Pakistan reaffirms its support to Lebanon’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and calls upon the international community to take urgent steps to hold Israel to account on its acts of international terrorism and violations of international law,” Baloch said.

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