Islamabad: Even as Pakistan Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali pointed a finger at India for the attack on a mosque in Quetta, local Shiite leaders have said that the suicide bombing appeared to have been carried out by members of the al-Qaida terror network.

"The criminals, whose bodies are lying in the hospital, are not locals. They are members of al-Qaida. Go and see their faces," president of the Baluchistan Shiite Conference Syed Ashraf Zaidi said.

The features of the suicide attackers, whose bodies have been recovered, are not that of Pakistanis, Zaidi was quoted as saying by local daily 'The News'.

Jamali after his return from riot-torn Quetta city on July 6 said the mosque bombing could be a "fallout" of the new Indian Consulates in Afghanistan's Kandahar and Herat and also Iran's Zaidan.

The bodies of two suicide attackers were reportedly kept for investigations in a hospital at Quetta.

Police has so far declined to identify the nationality of the attackers. Of the three suicide attackers, one reportedly blew himself up in the mosque and the other two died in exchange of fire with guards of the mosque.

PTI