Overview
- Indian police identified one attacker as Sajid Akram from Hyderabad and Philippine authorities verified travel on an Indian passport.
- Information Minister Attaullah Tarar condemned unverified reports as a deliberate campaign and requested public corrections and apologies, saying legal action is not planned at this stage.
- A Pakistani-Australian man named Naveed Akram was wrongly labeled a suspect; he denied any link and said the misidentification caused safety and reputational harm.
- Pakistan provided verified material to its embassies to assist citizens affected by the false claims and praised Australian investigators for relying on confirmed facts.
- Tarar linked the episode to broader India–Pakistan tensions and alleged Indian support for terrorism in Pakistan, with no public response from Indian officials cited in the reporting.