Hours after an explosion, which killed five, including three children, in Khuzdar, expressed Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir’s decision that the time has come for Pakistan to show unhealthy national determination, similar to that demonstrated against Indian aggression, to eliminate foreign sponsored terrorism and bring the fight to a crucial conclusion.
“Pakistan’s security forces and law enforcement authorities will relentlessly pursue all those involved in this barbaric act,” the prime minister was quoted as saying in the official statement during his day-long visit to Quetta to review the law-and-order situation after the terrorist attack.
A strong explosion near the zero point in Balochistan’s Khuzdar targeted a school bus, martyring five, including three students, and wounded dozens of others who drew condemnations from all over the country as well as the international community.
Terrorists targeted the school bus as it was heading for the educational institution with more than 40 students on board the District of Balochistan, which is among the worst terrorist-affected provinces.
Main Minister Sarfaraz Bugti told journalist that the five martyrs, including three children, the bus driver and his assistant, while the critically wounded were transported via air to the combined military hospital (CMH) Quetta. Khuzdar’s Deputy Commissioner said more than 30 people sustained damage to the explosion.
Separately, fourteen people who were wounded in the terrorist attack were transferred to the CMH Quetta. Among them is a woman, a man and twelve children. The CMH administration has said that some of the wounded are in critical condition.
The government has said that Indian supported militants performed the attack, which came almost two weeks after the two sides decided a ceasefire to end their most serious conflict in decades.
After the attack, the prime minister traveled to Quetta to meet the wounded children and other victims of this horrible attack. He was accompanied by Chief of Staff Field Marshal Asim Munir, Defense Minister Khawaja Asif, Minister of the Interior Mohsin Naqvi and Minister of Information Attaullah Tarar.
Chief Minister Balochistan and Commander Quetta Corps briefed the visitors of the creepy incident leading to martyrdom by three innocent children and two soldiers along with 53 wounded including 39 innocent children, 8 of whom are critical.
According to a press release issued by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), the school bus that transported innocent children was targeted by “Indian sponsored proxies [Fitna Al Hindustan] As the world has largely come to know as episents of instability in the region “.
“Successor to gross lack of frightening Pakistan through obvious military means, creepy terrorist incidents are orchestrated through their proxies on an intensified scale of Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, with deliberately targeted civilians in a useless attempt to destabilize Pakistan,” said it.
The visitors who see the poorly wounded and critically wounded children expressed that such a diabolic act of terror through these Indian sponsored clerks is a “shameful and contemptible act,” it says.
These terrorist groups – which are masked under ethnic conditions – are not only exploited by India as instruments in state policy, but also stand as a spot on the honor and values of Baloch and the Pashtun people who have long rejected violence and extremism, the statement added.
“India’s dependence on such morally unjustifiable tactics, especially the conscious target of children, requires urgent attention from the international community. Use of terrorism as a tool for foreign policy must be unequivocally condemned and confronted,” the statement read.
Pakistan’s security forces and law enforcement authorities will relentlessly pursue all those involved in this barbaric act.
“The architects, monkeys and enables of this crime will be held responsible and brought to justice and the truth of India’s cunning role, a real perpetrator of terrorism, but celebrates as a victim, standing exposed to the world,” it concluded.
Separate, Defense Minister Khawaja Asif – while talking about Pakinomist News The program ‘Aaj Shahzeb Khanzada Kay Sath’ threw India to use ‘proxy groups to burn violence in Pakistan’.
He said Native American sponsored terror equipment such as Balochistan Liberation Army (Bla) and Tehreek-E-Taliban Pakistan (TLP) to perform blood emit in the country.
The Minister also said that Pakistan would soon provide evidence of supporting his claims of India’s commitment to terrorism. “We want to prove what we say about the Khuzdar event,” he added.
Rising terrorism
Previous, The news Citation of intelligence sources reported that India’s research and analysis wing (RAW) has activated its clerks in Balochistan to burn violence and terrorism.
Following the failure of a previous false flag surgery in Pahaldam, RAW allegedly uses groups such as Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) and Fitna-Ul-Khawarij as well as illegal Afghan citizens to carry out attacks in Gwadar, Quetta and Khuzdar.
Pakistan has witnessed a wave of terrorist events since the Taliban -Handers returned to Afghanistan in 2021, especially in the bordering provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan.
However, the first quarter of 2025 were some promising trends in the security landscape of Pakistan, with the fatal accidents of militants and rebels, the number of cumulative losses of civil and security forces staff.
Its main findings issued by the Center for Research and Security Studies (CRSS), in particular, revealed fewer fatal losses among civil and security forces’ staff compared to the fourth quarter (quarter) of 2024 and an almost 13% reduction in total violence, the news reported.
Despite the progress, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan epicentres of violence, which accounts for 98% of all deaths, with attacks that grow bolder and militant tactics that develop, including the unprecedented hijack of Jaffar Express.
Projections warn of over 3,600 fatalities after the end of the year if the current trends persist, which potentially makes 2025 one of Pakistan’s deadliest years.
Individually, Balochistan LED 35% of all fatalities during the period investigated, and compared to the last quarter, it recorded an alarming 15% increase in violence. The comparison disregards the surge that is registered in other provinces/ regions as the number of deaths remains very low.
