New Delhi: A suicide attack in an upscale Islamabad neighbourhood killed five and injured six others on Monday.
Pakistan government has called the incident as a repercussion of its action against militants in Swat.
The Taliban are the obvious suspects.
The bomber targeted the office of the UN World Food Programme by triggering off a seven kilogram explosive device strapped to his body while entering the lobby, killing four UN staffers of whom one of them was a foreigner.
Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik said, “They (the Talibans) are like a wounded snake. Five days earlier, they held a meeting in which they decided that they would target specific people to put pressure on the government and the Pakistani people.
Meanwhile, UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has condemned the attack.
He said, “This is a heinous crime committed against those who have been working tirelessly to assist the poor and the vulnerable on the frontlines of hunger and other human suffering in Pakistan.”
The UN is under pressure to move all its offices to the secured diplomatic enclave in Islamabad.
The attack is the worst attack in Islamabad since April when a paramilitary checkpoint was targeted.
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