Islamabad, May 14 (IANS): The Karachi bus attack was an act of cowards and the culprits will be dealt with strictly, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said on Thursday a day after 46 people were killed in a bus attack.
"All the criminals will be caught soon and punished," the prime minister said while addressing a business ceremony here, Geo News reported.
Sharif added that there was no question of failure in the ongoing Operation Zarb-e-Azb in the North Waziristan Agency.
"We have had several successes in Operation Zarb-e-Azb. The attack in Karachi was cowardly," the prime minister said.
At least 46 people were killed in the attack on Wednesday when gunmen opened indiscriminate fire inside a bus of the Ismaili community.
Sharif had arrived in Karachi following the attack and said tough decisions would now be required to eliminate terrorism from the country.