Washington, October 06: The Obama Administration and US lawmakers today condemned the suicide attack on the office of the World Food Programme in Islamabad that killed five aid workers.
“Senseless acts of violence against people who help feed the poor and hungry are an attack on civilisation itself.
Such cruel acts expose the true nature of the terrorist agenda,” State Department spokesman Ian Kelly told reporters.
“As part of an emergency relief programme, the World Food Programme ? the United Nations frontline agency in the fight against hunger ? has been providing vital food assistance to as many as two million Pakistani civilians displaced by the conflict in the Swat Valley region,” he said.
“We extend our deepest sympathy to the injured and our condolences to the families and friends of those who lost their lives in the bombing,” Kelly said.
–PTI