Quetta:
At least five people – including three schoolchildren – were martyred and several others injured in a suicide attack targeting a school bus in Khuzdar early Wednesday morning, civil and military officials said.
The alleged bomber struck a vehicle loaded with explosives in the school bus while he was passing Zero Point near the Rakhshan hotel, deputy commissioner Yashbal Dashti, added that the bus transported students to the public school of the army (APS) located in the canton of Khuzdar.
The vehicle was rigged with more than 30 kilograms of explosives, according to the bombs elimination team.
The army media wing said that “three innocent children and two adults adopted Shahadat” and that several children were injured in “the loose and horrible planned and orchestrated attack by the terrorist state of India and executed by its agents in Balutchistan”.
The ISPR added that India has triggered its attorney to spread terrorism and unrest in Balutchistan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhawa through such odious and cowardly acts after failing miserably failed on the battlefield.
Shortly after the deadly attack, the security forces threw a cord in the area and launched an investigation. Security was tightened in and around Khuzdar after the bombing, with established control points and the patrols intensified to avoid other attacks.
The chief minister of Balutchistan, Sarfraz Bugti, revealed that the intelligence agencies had previous warnings of a proxy of proxy drawn by hostile forces. “We could not have imagined such brutality, where innocent schoolchildren would be targeted,” he said in the media during a hurry. “It is the true face of our enemies.”
Indian attorney is at the origin of this atrocity, said the chief minister, adding that the territory of Afghanistan was used as a launch ramp for such attacks aimed at destabilizing baloutchistan.
Balutchistan is in the grip of a deadly separatist insurgency since the murder of Baloch Chieftain Nawab Akbar BUGTI in a security operation in 2006. The groups involved in the insurrection are supported, trained and funded by the Indian espionage agency RAW.
“Having failed in operation Bunnianum Marsoos and chased by military organizations and responsible for the application of laws, these Indian terrorist attorney is used as a state tool by India to foment terrorism in Pakistan against soft targets such as innocent and civilian children,” added the ISPR.
“The use of terrorism as a state policy by the Indian political government is odious and reflects their weak morality and their contempt for fundamental human norms,” he added.
The soldiers have also added that the planners, accomplices and testamentary executors of this indictment sponsored by India will be hunted and brought to justice and the heinous face of India will be exposed to the whole world. “The Armed Forces of Pakistan with the support of the Brave Pakistani nation united to uproot terrorism sponsored by the Indians of Pakistan in all its manifestations.”
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Marshal Asim Munnir rushed to Quetta during an emergency visit where they received a briefing on Khuzdar’s attack, the Prime Minister’s office said in a statement.
The Prime Minister condemned the terrorist attack and expressed deep sadness to the death of innocent children and their teachers. He exercised his condolences to bereaved families and ordered the authorities to identify and keep responsible officials.
President Asif Zardari also denounced the attack as a violation of human rights and condolences granted to bereaved families.
The Pakistan Human Rights Committee (HRCP) said that “the deliberate targeting of schoolchildren-non-custody innocent in all directions-is a red line that should never be crossed. This act violates the most fundamental principles of humanity and international humanitarian law,” he said in a statement.
“The State has the obligation to respect the law and the order by strengthening civil institutions and the rule of law-and not by blind kinetic responses,” he added by calling for the identification and immediate pursuit of the authors and their catalysts by legal means. The HRCP also underlined the urgent need for a significant political dialogue to solve the deeply rooted problems of representation, governance and distribution of resources in Balutchistan.
The convictions also flocked from different countries. The United States has denounced the murder of innocent children “beyond understanding”. In a shared press release on the Microblogging X site (formerly Twitter), the United States Embassy in Islamabad expressed deep sadness about the attack and prolonged solidarity with the victims and their families.
“No child should never fear going to school,” said US business manager Natalie Baker would have been declared in the statement. “We stand with those of Pakistan who work to put an end to this violence.”
The Chinese ambassador, Jiang Zaidong, also offered “bigger condolences” to the families of the victims and sincere sympathy to the wounded. “We strongly condemn this terrorist attack, express our deepest condolences to the deceased and sincere sympathy to injured and bereaved families,” said the envoy during a ceremony marking the 74th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Pakistan.
“China is opposed to all forms of terrorism and will continue to firmly support Pakistan in the advancement of terrorism control operations, the maintenance of social stability and the protection of people’s security.”
The officials claim that India was frustrated after his defeat on military and diplomatic fronts during the recent confrontation with Pakistan – and now he has activated his proxy terrorists to release chaos in the country.
India considers itself as the regional hegemon, but Lieutenant-General DG Ispr Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said in a television interview earlier this week: “Pakistan will never bow against Indian hegemony … The earliest they [India] Know this, the better for regional and global peace. “”
(With an additional News Desk input)
