WASHINGTON: The United States has condemned the terrorist attack on Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport, and offered Pakistan its help in investigating the incident on the country’s largest airport.
“(We) join the Pakistani people in condemning this attack. We have offered assistance to the relevant Pakistani authorities in investigating this crime,” the Deputy Spokesperson at the US State Department Marie Harf told in a briefing in Washington.
Harf said that Pakistan has a number of capabilities to handle these incidents and the United States is ready to help Pakistan with the investigation, adding that counterterrorism is a shared concern for the US and Pakistan.
“The Pakistani people themselves have been tragically the victims of many of these terrorist attacks. So the cooperation is ongoing,” Harf noted.
The deputy spokesperson said that Washington works closely with Pakistan to help build its capacity to deal with terrorists’ threats.
The spokesperson particularly cited the cooperative efforts by Pakistan and the United States in combating terrorism along the Afghan border.
Harf also told the daily briefing that there are no reports of American citizens among the casualties in the Karachi airport attack and all staff at the American mission is safe.
