Pakistan condemns IED blast that killed three US soldiers in Afghanistan

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has strongly condemned the IED attack that left three US soldiers of the United States-led NATO’s RSM dead in Ghazni, Afghanistan.

According to a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Pakistan expressed solidarity with the US administration.
Foreign Minister Qureshi said Pakistan condemns terrorism and stands in solidarity with the US government and its people in this hour of grief.”
Three US soldiers were killed and three wounded by a bomb in Afghanistan on Tuesday, Nato said, with the attack claimed by the Taliban as the US tries to ratchet up efforts to engage the militants in peace talks.
Nato’s Resolute Support mission would not immediately release any details about the identity of the soldiers, whose deaths took the number of American service personnel to die in the war-torn country this year to 12.
A Nato statement said they had been killed when an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated near Ghazni city in central Afghanistan.
An American contractor was also wounded, it said, adding that the four injured in the blast were receiving medical care.
The casualties come just days after another US soldier was killed in Afghanistan’s Nimroz province on Saturday.