QUETTA:
At least five people, including three schoolchildren, were martyred and several other wounds in a suicide attack aimed at a school bus in Khuzdar on Wednesday morning, civil and military officials said.
The alleged bomber rammed a vehicle loaded with explosives on the school bus while passing beyond the zero point near the Rakhshan hotel, said attached commissioner Yasir Iqbal Dashti, and added that the bus was transporting students to the Public Army School (APS) located inside the Khuzdar cantonment.
The vehicle was manipulated with more than 30 kilograms of explosives, according to the pump removal equipment.
The military media wing stated that “three innocent children and two adults have embraced Shahadat” and several children have suffered injured in the “cowardly and frightened attack planned and orchestrated by the terrorist state of India and executed by their representatives in Baluchistan.”
The ISPR added that India has unleashed its representatives to disseminate terror and disturbances in Baluchistan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhawa through such atrocious and cowardly acts after miserably failing on the battlefield.
Shortly after the deadly attack, the security forces threw a cord around the area and launched an investigation. Security hardened in Khuzdar and its surroundings after bombing, with established control points and patrols intensified to avoid more attacks.
Baluchistan’s prime minister Sarfraz Bugti revealed that intelligence agencies had previous warnings of a representation strike drawn by hostile forces. “We could not have imagined such brutality, where innocent schoolchildren would be attacked,” he hastily called a presser. “This is the true face of our enemies.”
The Indian representatives are behind this atrocity, said the main minister, added that the territory of Afghanistan was being used as a launch platform for such attacks aimed at destabilizing Baluchistan.
Baluchistan has been in the control of a deadly separatist insurgency since the murder of Baloch Nawab Akbar Bugti chief in a security operation in 2006. The groups involved in the insurgency are being supported, trained and financed by the India Raw spy agency.
“After having failed in the Bunnianum Marsoos operation and being hunted by military and police agencies, these Indian terrorist representatives are being used as a state tool of India to promote terrorism in Pakistan against soft objectives such as innocent and civil children,” added the ISPR.
“The use of terrorism as a state policy of the Indian political government is abhorrent and reflects its low morality and its contempt for basic human norms,” he added.
The military also added that the planners, the absensors and the executors of this cowardly attack sponsored by the Indians will be persecuted and brought to justice and the atrocious face of India will be exposed to everyone. “Pakistan’s armed forces with the support of the brave Pakistani nation come together to uproot terrorism sponsored by Pakistan Indians in all their manifestations.”
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Campo Mariscal also rushed Quetta on an emergency visit where they received an informative session about Khuzdar’s attack, said Prime Minister’s office in a statement.
The prime minister condemned the terrorist attack and expressed a deep sadness for the death of innocent children and their teachers. He extended their condolences to the afflicted families and directed the authorities to identify and hold those responsible.
President Asif Zardari also denounced the attack as a violation of human rights and condolences extended to the afflicted families.
Pakistan’s Human Rights Commission (HRCP) said that “the deliberate orientation of schoolchildren, non -innocent combatants in every way, is a red line that should never be crossed. This law violates the most basic principles of humanity and international humanitarian law,” he said in a statement.
“The State has the obligation to maintain the law and order in strengthening civil institutions and the rule of law, not through indiscriminate kinetic responses,” he added when requesting immediate identification and prosecution of perpetrators and their facilitators through legal means. The HCRP also emphasized the urgent need for a significant political dialogue to address the deeply entrenched problems of representation, governance and distribution of resources in Baluchistan.
The convictions were also seen from different countries. The United States denounced the murder of innocent children “beyond understanding.” In a shared statement on the X Microblogging site (previously Twitter), the United States embassy in Islamabad expressed a deep pain for the attack and extended solidarity with the victims and their families.
“No child should fear going to school,” he said in the statement. “We are with those in Pakistan who work to put an end to this violence.”
Chinese ambassador Jiang Zaidong also offered “deepest condolences” to the families of the victims and sincere sympathy for the injured. “We strongly condemn this terrorist attack, we express our deepest condolences to the deceased and sincere sympathy towards injured and duel,” said the envoy in a ceremony that marks the 74th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Pakistan.
“China opposes all forms of terrorism and will continue to firmly support Pakistan to advance anti -terrorist operations, maintain social stability and protect people’s safety.”
The authorities say that India has frustrated after her defeats on military and diplomat fronts during the recent confrontation with Pakistan, and has now activated her terrorists of power to unleash chaos in the country.
India considers itself regional Hegemon, but DG ISPR Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said in a television interview earlier this week that: “Pakistan will never be inclined to Indian hegemony … the sooner they are [India] Realize this, it will be better for regional and global peace. “
(With additional news desktop information)
