KARACHI -- Pakistani police on Saturday identified the outlawed Sunni militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi as one of the gangs behind the deadly June 14 car-bomb attack on the U.S. Consulate here.

"This gang has been identified as being behind major terrorist attacks including the consulate blast," Sindh Provincial Home Secretary Brigadier Mukhtar Sheikh told AFP. "But we are not ruling out the possibility of other gangs as well."

Sindh Police Chief Kamal Shah also said the consulate blast, which killed 12 Pakistanis on the busy road outside the consular building, was the work of Lashkar-i-Jhangvi.

"It could be Lashkar-i-Jhangvi on its own, or in combination with other groups," Shah told AFP.

At least one Lashkar-i-Jhangvi militant, Sharib, was also implicated in the May 8 car-bomb attack outside the Sheraton Hotel here, in which 11 French nationals and three Pakistanis were killed.