The Government of Maldives has strongly condemned the terrorist attack on the Chinese Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan. In a tweet condemning the terrorist attack, Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdulla Shahid extended heartfelt condolences to the families of the victims.
Three terrorists stormed the Chinese consulate amid a series of gunshots and an explosion on Friday, but were killed before they could force their way in with a car packed with explosives, according to the Karachi Police. The attack, claimed by separatist insurgents from the impoverished south-western Pakistani province of Baluchistan, killed four people, including two police officers, but it was far from the most deadly on a particularly violent day across the region.
Further, a terrorist on a motorbike set off explosives in a crowded festival and market in northwest Pakistan's Orakzai region, killing at least 25 people at around the same time as the Karachi bloodshed.