The group said the attack was carried out on a Pakistani army unit that had completed training at the infantry school. PM: Criminals 'will pay a heavy price' Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif vowed that the attackers "will pay a heavy price", his office said.
There have been several terrorist attacks in Pakistan in recent years. The Islamic State terrorist group, as well as the Pakistani branch of the radical Islamist Taliban movement, were previously behind some of them. In July 2023, a bomb exploded during an event of the conservative religious party Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam in northwestern Pakistan.