PAKISTAN FORMS COUNTERTERRORISM TEAM TO PROBE IS-CLAIMED ATTACK

KARACHI: A team of senior counterterror officials has been formed to investigate a terrorist attack targeting Hazara Shias in Pakistan’s Balochistan province. The minority community continued their sit-in for a third day on Sunday demanding better security measures. A bomber blew himself up in Hazarganj market in the provincial capital Quetta on Friday, killing 21 people and injuring 60 others, mostly Hazaras in an attack claimed by the Islamic State. Deputy inspector general Abdul Razzaq Cheema said a team of counterterrorism officials had visited the site of the attack to collect evidence. The body parts of the suspected attacker have been sent to the Punjab forensic science Agency for DNA testing.