On Wednesday, the security forces promised to “relentlessly pursue” those guilty of the attack on a school bus in Khuzdar de Baluchistan, leaving three children among five dead and several other injured.
A statement from the office of the Prime Minister, issued after a day visit of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to Quetta after the incident, said: “The security forces and the application agencies of the Law of Pakistan will relentlessly seek all those involved in this barbaric act.
“The architects, the absensors and the facilitators of this crime will be responsible and will be given to justice and the truth about the cunning position of India, a true author of terrorism but pretends as a victim, is exposed to the world.”
The statement detailed the incident, claiming that the law was carried out by the “representatives sponsored by the State of India (Fitna al Hindustan)“He added that the” evil terrorist incidents “were being orchestrated through representatives in Baluchistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,” deliberately pointing to civilians in a useless attempt to destabilize Pakistan. “
Defense Minister Khawaja Asif, Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi, information minister, Attaullah Tarar, and Field Marshal Syed also also visited Quetta to meet with the victims of the attack together with the prime minister, the statement added.
Baluchistan’s prime minister, Sarfraz Bugti, and Quetta’s commander informed visitors about the incident, which led to the “martyrdom of three innocent children and two soldiers”, as well as another 53 injured, including 39 children, eight in critical condition, the statement added.
Visitors expressed their pain for the loss of lives, condemning the “shameful and despicable act.”
The statement said that terrorist groups “were not only being exploited by India as state policy instruments, but are also a stain in the honor and values of Baloch and Pashtun people, which have long rejected violence and extremism for a long time.
“The dependence of India in such morally indefensible tactics, particularly the deliberate orientation of children, demands urgent attention from the international community.
“The use of terrorism as a foreign policy tool must be unequivocally condemned and confronted.”
In addition, he quoted Prime Minister Shehbaz saying that the entire nation was resolved behind its armed forces and law enforcement agencies.
The statement added that the Premier and Coas stressed that “now is the moment, that the nation shows a very strong resolution similar to that shown recently against the aggression of India, to bring the fight against terrorism sponsored abroad to its logical and decisive end.”
Previously, Public Relations between Services (ISPR) issued a statement that said: “In another cowardly and horrible attack planned and orchestrated by the terrorist state of India and executed by its representatives in Baluchistan, the innocent children’s bus that went to school was attacked today in Khuzdar.”
In addition, he said that “after having failed miserably on the battlefield, through these more atrocious and cowardly acts, such as Indian representatives have unleashed to spread terror and disturbances in Baluchistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.”
The statement said that “India is using Indian terrorist representatives as a state tool to promote terrorism in Pakistan against soft objectives such as innocent and civil children.”
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 the Pakistan Indians in all its manifestations,” said the ISPR.
The attached commissioner Yasir Iqbal Dashti said Dawn.com that the explosion occurred when the school bus was close to the zero khuzdar point.
The bodies and injured were taken to the Khuzdar combined military hospital, from where the serious injured would be sent to medical facilities in Quetta and Karachi, said the DC.
Police, the border body (FC) and other agencies of application of the law 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.
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.
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.
Condemnations
Prime Minister Shehbaz condemned the attack as a cowardly act.
“The attack on innocent children on a school bus for terrorists who work under Indian sponsorship is a clear proof of their hostility towards education in Baluchistan,” he said in a statement.
Expressing a deep sadness for the death of children, he said that the terrorists have “crossed all the limits of barbarism,” promising to take them to an end.
“The sympathies of the entire nation, including mine, are with the families of these innocent children, who were victims of the brutality of the terrorists.”
He directed the security forces to bring the perpetrators to justice and showed support to the resolution of the Armed Forces to eradicate the terrorism of the country.
President Asif Ali Zardari described the attack as an “atrocious and inhuman crime.” He promised to expose this “terrorism supported by the Indians” internationally.
“These terrorists do not want to see Baluchistan developed,” he said in a statement.
“While our prayers go out by the deceased souls and their families, the planners and orchestators of this atrocious terrorist attack will be taken before justice,” said Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ishaq Dar.
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.
Naqvi also strongly condemned the “explosion inside the bus near Khuzdar Zero Point”.
In a statement, he expressed a deep sadness and pain for the death of the 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.”
CM Bugti promised that the government would not only expose all the terrorists operating in the province, but also “completely eradicate.”
“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.
Later, while talking to the media, Bugti said that the government had solid information that Ajit Doval, the Indian National Security Advisor, was planning something in Baluchistan, but did not expect it to point to the children.
He said four children were killed while there were 42 injured in the attack.
“We had intelligence about this, but to attack innocent children, this is the cowardice of India.”
