At least 25 people have been killed in a pair of suicide attacks on a government building in the Pakistani city of Quetta. The Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility, calling the bombings revenge for the earlier arrests of al-Qaeda operatives. Speaking to Reuters, a Pakistani military spokesperson said the arrests were carried out with heavy CIA cooperation.

Major General Athar Abbas: “When we found out that they are there in the suburbs of Quetta, then we conducted this raid, and there was a close coordination with the external intelligence agency, the CIA. And it was a very successful operation, like in the past that we have been conducting very successful operations with coordination of each other.”