Azhar deplores Berlin suicide attack

Azhar condemned on Tuesday the Berlin terror attack in which 12 people were killed and scores others injured.

In a statement on Tuesday, Azhar stressed its rejection of terror attacks, adding that people have the right to live in peace whatever their religion, nationality or language is.

Azhar urged the international community to lay down a comprehensive strategy to eradicate terror.

The Guardian said the man - arrested under suspicion of ploughing a 7-ton truck through a Christmas market in the heart of Berlin, has been named in German media reports as Naved B, a 23-year-old asylum seeker of Pakistani origin. 

No official confirmation has been provided at this time.

The suspect was picked up about 2 kilometres (1½ miles) away from the scene of the attack in which 12 were, near the Victory Column monument.

Berlin's public radio station RBB-Inforadio reported that the suspect was a Pakistani citizen who entered Germany on Dec. 31, 2015, citing an unnamed security source.

This partly concurred with those in other German media.

Source: MENA