ISLAMABAD, June 4 (Xinhua) -- Pakistan on Monday strongly condemned the suicide attack in Afghan capital Kabul, which targeted a congregation of religious scholars.

Eight people were killed and nine others injured after a suicide bombing ripped through a university where top Afghan religious scholars were having the meeting, a Kabul police spokesman said.

The scholars issued a religious decree against the war and suicide attacks in the country.

"We are grieved at the loss of precious innocent lives in this barbaric act of terrorism. We express our heartfelt sympathies and condolences to the bereaved families and pray for the early recovery of the injured," a spokesman for the Pakistani foreign ministry said in a statement.

The spokesman said that Pakistan reiterates its unequivocal condemnation of terrorism in all forms and manifestations and expresses solidarity with the people and government of Afghanistan in this hour of grief and sorrow.