Pakistan's military said on Tuesday that a suicide bomb attack that killed five Chinese engineers in March was planned in neighbouring Afghanistan, and that the bomber was also an Afghan national.

Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan — a local offshoot of neighboring Afghanistan’s Taliban - planned and executed a suicide bomb attack that killed five Chinese engineers in March, according to Pakistan’s military spokesman.

A military spokesperson says Afghanistan’s Taliban government has failed to prevent the use of Afghan soil for cross-border terrorism