The bodies of nine passengers who were kidnapped and killed in the district of Lorealai in Baluchistan were recovered and transported to their cities of origin in Punjab for the last rites, authorities said Friday.
Commissioner Assistant Naveed Alam said that seven of the victims have been identified, saving from Lodhran, Dera Ghazi Khan, Gujrat, Atock, Khanewal and Gujranwala, while two remain unidentified due to the lack of documentation.
Among the murdered were the USMAN and Jabir brothers, who were traveling back to Punjab with their family to attend the funeral of their father scheduled for the 9 am know, his brother, shared on social networks that his father had died the day before.
On Thursday night, the terrorists allegedly affiliated with Fitna al-Hindusta fired at least nine passengers from the buses to Punjab that passed through the Sardhaka area of the Baluchistan district of Baluchistán Lorealai.
The assailants verified the identification letters of the passengers and, according to the reports, they undertook people with addresses of Punjab. The incident occurred near the N-70 road on one site along the border of Lorealai-Zhob.
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Baluchistan government spokesman Shahid Rind said that the terrorists, who carried out this horrible attack, belonged to Fitna al-Hindustan.
In May of this year, the Government appointed all terrorist organizations in Baluchistan as Fitna-Al-Hindustan. The term refers to backed terrorist organizations and/or sponsored in Baluchistan.
According to the reports, the Proscibed Baluchistan Liberation Front (BLF) group attributed the responsibility of the murders, stating that it blocked the road between Musakhail-Makhtar and Khajuri before attacking passengers.
‘Barbarian act’
The convictions arrived shortly after the attack.
President Asif Ali Zardari described the murders as a “barbarian act” and said it was part of the broader conspiracy of Fitna al-Hindustan to destabilize Pakistan, according to the state administration Pakistan radio.
He reaffirmed the state’s commitment to clean the country of all those threats and their facilitators, saying: “We will clean our land of Fitna al-Hindusta at all costs.”
Similarly, Prime Minister Shehbaz condemned the attack in the strongest terms, qualifying it as “shameless terrorism.” He affirmed that the perpetrators would be treated through the complete state force.
“The blood of innocent people will avenge,” he said, blaming the Indian State for supporting such acts against unarmed civilians.
Meanwhile, the Federal Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi denounced the murders as “cowardly barbarism” by the “terrorists sponsored by India and their local facilitators”, promising the national persecution and the punishment of the perpetrators.
لورالائی اور خیل کے قریب قومی شاہراہ پر سرہ ڈاکئی مقام مقام پر ا الہ.
وفاقی وزیرداخلہ محسن نقوی بے گناہ و معصوم مسافروں ک ک ک ک ک ک ک ک ک ک ک ک ک ک مسافروں مسافروں مسافروں– Ministry of the Interior Republican Party (@MoFíficialGop) July 10, 2025
He expressed sympathy for the afflicted families and reaffirmed the commitment of the state to frustrate all plots against national peace and integrity.
Baluchistan’s prime minister, Sarfraz Bugti, also strongly condemned the attack, describing it as “shameless terrorism” and an unforgivable crime committed only based on Pakistani identity.
Averaging a severe response, he said that perpetrators had proven to be “cowardly beasts” instead of human beings, and promised that the State would chase them tirelessly, leaving them without place to hide.
