Three children were among the five dead, while several others were injured when a bus transported to the students was attacked in an explosion in the Khuzdar district of Baluchistan on Wednesday morning, said public relations between services (ISPR).
“In another cowardly and frightened attack planned and orchestrated by the terrorist state of India and executed by its representatives in Baluchistan, the innocent children’s bus that goes to school was attacked today in Khuzdar,” reads a statement from the ISPR.
“According to initial reports, three innocent children and two adults have embraced martyrdom and several children have suffered injuries,” added the press release.
“After having failed miserably on the battlefield, through these more atrocious and cowardly acts, Indians have been unleashed to propagate terror and disturbances in Baluchistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,” said the ISPR.
“India is using Indian terrorist representatives as a state tool to promote terrorism in Pakistan against soft objectives such as innocent and civil children,” the statement said.
He pointed out that India had “failed” in Operation Bunyanum Marsoos de Pakistan during the recent conflict, and his [proxies] They were “being hunted [down] by military and police agencies ”.
“The use of terrorism as a state policy by [the] The Indian political government is abhorrent and reflects its low morality and contempt for [sic] Basic human norms, ”said the ISPR.
“The planners, absensors and executors of this cowardly attack by the Indians will be persecuted and brought to justice and [the] The atrocious face of India will be exposed to the entire world, ”promised the army.
The armed forces of Pakistan, with the support of the brave Pakistani nation, stop “united to uproot terrorism sponsored by India of Pakistan in all its manifestations,” said the ISPR.
Last month, the CEO of the ISPR, Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, accused India of activating his “assets” to intensify terrorist attacks in Pakistan.
He had detailed the arrest of a suspect of Pakistani terror allegedly trained by India as “irrefutable evidence” of terrorism sponsored by the State led by Indian military personnel.
On Monday, the ISPR said that 12 terrorists from the “Indian power” attire were killed by security forces in separate commitments in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Baluchistan.
Early today, the attached commissioner Yasir Iqbal Dashti had said Dawn.com that the explosion occurred when the school bus was close to the zero khuzdar point.
The bodies and the injured were taken to the CMH of Khuzdar, from where the serious injured would be referred to medical facilities in Quetta and Karachi, said the DC.
Police, the border body (FC) and the personnel of other agencies of application of the law have reached the site of the incident to collect evidence of an investigation.
While an investigation was underway, the DC said that preliminary findings indicated that the attack was a suicidal explosion.
Condemnations
Baluchistan’s government spokesman Shahid Rind denounced the attack as the “horrible face of terrorism sponsored by the Indian state”, as well as a “cowardly and inhuman act.”
In a statement, Rind echoed the ISPR position, saying that India was “creating instability in Baluchistan to hide their failures.” He called “terrorism sponsored by the state of India a threat to world peace.”
Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi firmly condemned the “explosion inside the bus near Khuzdar Zero Point.”
In a statement, he expressed a deep sadness and pain for the death of four children, and extended their condolences to their families.
“The beasts that go to innocent children do not deserve any indulgence. The enemy demonstrated barbarism by attacking innocent children,” Naqvi said.
“The attack on the school bus is an atrocious conspiracy of the enemy to create instability in the country. With the unity of the nation, we will frustrate each conspiracy,” promised Interior Minister.
Naqvi also prayed for the rapid recovery of the injured.
The Minister of Communications, Abdul Aleem Khan, also denounced the attack, saying that “terrorism against innocent children was the peak of cowardice.”
Baluchistan’s prime minister, Sarfraz Bugti, promised that they will not only expose all the terrorists operating in the province, but also “will completely eradicate them.”
“After the success of the operation [Bunyanum Marsoos] And the shameful defeat of India, now they have resorted to cowardly and shameful tactics, “he wrote in X.
