The bodies of nine passengers who were removed and killed in the Baloutchistan Loralai district last night were recovered and transported in their native cities in Punjab for the last rites, officials announced on Friday.
Deputy Commissioner Naveed Alam said that seven of the victims had been identified – in the move of Lodhran, Dera Ghazi Khan, Gujrat, Attock, Khanewal and Gujranwala – while two remain unidentified due to the missing documentation.
Among the people killed were the Usman and Jabir brothers, who returned to Punjab with their family to attend the funeral of their father scheduled for 9 am today. Sabir, their brother, shared on social networks that their father had died the day before.
Thursday evening, terrorists were reportedly affiliated to Fitna al-Hinstan shot down at least nine bus passengers to Punjab passing through the Sardhaka region in the Loralai district of Baloutchistan.
The attackers checked passenger identity cards and would have targeted people with Punjab addresses. The incident occurred near the N-70 motorway on a site along the Loralai-Zhob border.
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Balutchistan government spokesperson Shahid Rind said the terrorists, who had led this horrible attack, belonged to Fitna al-Hinstan.
In May this year, the government has appointed all terrorist organizations in Balutchistan as Fitna-Al-Hindustan. The term refers to terrorist organizations supported by India and / or sponsored operating in Balutchistan.
The Liberation Group of the Proscibe Balouthistan (BLF) group would have claimed the responsibility of the murders, declaring that it blocked the motorway between Musakhail-Makhtar and Khajuri before targeting passengers.
“ Barbaric act ‘
The convictions sank shortly after the attack.
President Asif Ali Zardari described the killings as a “barbaric act” and said that it was part of the wider plot of Fitna al-Hinstan to destabilize Pakistan, according to the state managed by the state Radio Pakistan.
He reaffirmed the state’s commitment to clean the country with all these threats and their facilitators, saying: “We will erase our country of Fitna al-Hindustan at all costs”.
Likewise, Prime Minister Shehbaz condemned the attack in the strongest terms, calling it “blatant terrorism”. He said the authors would be treated by full state force.
“The innocent blood will be avenged,” he said, blaming the Indian state for supporting such acts against unarmed civilians.
Meanwhile, the Federal Minister of the Interior, Mohin Naqvi, denounced murders as “loose barbarism” by “sponsored terrorists in India and their local facilitators”, producing the national pursuit and the punishment of the authors.
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He expressed his sympathy for the bereaved families and reaffirmed the state’s commitment to thwart all the plots against national peace and integrity.
The chief minister of Balutchistan, Sarfraz Bugti, also strongly condemned the attack, describing it as a “blatant terrorism” and an unforgivable crime committed only on the basis of the Pakistani identity.
With regard to a serious response, he said that the authors had shown themselves as “cowardly animals” rather than human beings, and promised that the state would pursue them tirelessly, leaving them no place to hide.
