Latest news with #ArmyPublicSchools
Egypt Independent
22-05-2025
- Politics
- Egypt Independent
Three children and two adults killed in suicide attack on school bus in Pakistan
Quetta, Balochistan CNN — A suicide attack on a school bus in southwestern A suicide attack on a school bus in southwestern Pakistan killed three students of a military-run school on Wednesday, officials said, in the latest attack that underscores the deteriorating security situation in the region. The explosion took place in the city of Khuzdar in restive Balochistan province and targeted a school bus carrying 'a large number' of children of military officials, according to Yasir Dashti, a senior government official from the province. Dashti said 38 people were wounded in the attack. 'The bus was carrying Army Public School children,' said Kaleem Ullah, a police official from Khuzdar. Army Public Schools are a network of school across Pakistan for children of military staff. At least three children and two adults were killed, according to a statement from the Pakistan military. There has been no claim of responsibility for the attack so far. Balochistan has been rocked for years by a separatist insurgency that seeks greater political autonomy and economic development in the strategically important and mineral-rich mountainous region. Pakistan's military accused 'Indian proxies' of being behind the attack in a statement released shortly after the incident. It did not give evidence for its claims. Pakistan has previously accused its neighbor and arch-rival of being behind attacks in Balochistan. New Delhi has denied the accusations. India's foreign ministry rejected what it described as 'baseless allegations' on Wednesday, and accused Islamabad of leveling such claims 'to hide its own gross failings.' 'India condoles the loss of lives in all such incidents,' a spokesperson for the country's Ministry of External Affairs said in a statement to CNN. 'However, in order to divert attention from its reputation as the global epicenter of terrorism and to hide its own gross failings, it has become second nature for Pakistan to blame India for all its internal issues,' the spokesperson added. Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif 'strongly condemned the cowardly attack' in a statement and repeated the military's accusations that India was behind the attack. Local boys inspect site of a school bus bombing in Khuzdar district of Balochistan province, Pakistan, on Wednesday. AFP/Getty Images India has long accused Pakistan of sheltering militant groups that have carried out attacks across the border, including a recent massacre of tourists in India-administered Kashmir, allegations Islamabad has denied. Tensions between the two spiraled after that massacre and resulted in a brief four-day conflict earlier this month that was the most sustained fighting between the two in decades. A fragile ceasefire has held since then. Wednesday's attack comes just over two months after the deadly hijacking of a train by separatist militants in Balochistan. In that incident the Baloch Liberation Army took more than 350 people – some of whom were security personnel – hostage, killing 27 of them. Children have also been the target of some of Pakistan's most devastating terror attacks. At least 145 people, mostly school children, were killed by Pakistani Taliban militants in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 2014 – the worst terror attack in the country's history. The Pakistani Taliban's most notable target was then 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai, who was singled out and shot on October 9, 2012 as she rode to school in a van with other girls. CNN's Aishwarya S Iyer contributed reporting.
Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Three children and two adults killed in suicide attack on school bus in Pakistan
A suicide attack on a school bus in southwestern Pakistan killed three students of a military-run school on Wednesday, officials said, in the latest attack that underscores the deteriorating security situation in the region. The explosion took place in the city of Khuzdar in restive Balochistan province and targeted a school bus carrying 'a large number' of children of military officials, according to Yasir Dashti, a senior government official from the province. 38 people were wounded in the attack, Dashti said. 'The bus was carrying Army Public School children,' said Kaleem Ullah, a police official from Khuzdar. Army Public Schools are a network of school across Pakistan for children of military staff. At least three children and two adults were killed, according to a statement from the Pakistan military. There has been no claim of responsibility for the attack so far. Balochistan has been rocked for years by a separatist insurgency that seeks greater political autonomy and economic development in the strategically important and mineral-rich mountainous region. Pakistan's military accused 'Indian proxies' of being behind the attack in a statement released shortly after the incident. It did not give evidence for its claims. Pakistan has previously accused its neighbor and arch-rival of being behind attacks in Balochistan. New Delhi has denied the accusations. CNN has contacted the Indian Ministry of External Affairs and Indian Army for a response. Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif 'strongly condemned the cowardly attack' in a statement and repeated the military's accusations that India was behind the attack. India has long accused Pakistan of sheltering militant groups that have carried out attacks across the border, including a recent massacre of tourists in India-administered Kashmir, allegations Islamabad has denied. Tensions between the two spiraled after that massacre and resulted in a brief four-day conflict earlier this month that was the most sustained fighting between the two in decades. A fragile ceasefire has held since then. Wednesday's attack comes just over two months after the deadly hijacking of a train by separatist militants in Balochistan. In that incident the Baloch Liberation Army took more than 350 people – some of whom were security personnel – hostage, killing 27 of them. Children have also been the target of some of Pakistan's most devastating terror attacks. At least 145 people, mostly school children, were killed in by Pakistani Taliban militants in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 2014 – the worst terror attack in the country's history. The Pakistani Taliban's most notable target was then 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai, who was singled out and shot on October 9, 2012 as she rode to school in a van with other girls.
Hindustan Times
14-05-2025
- Politics
- Hindustan Times
How India fought Pakistan's drones and misinformation during Operation Sindoor
During the four-day intense military confrontation, the Indian armed forces intercepted and neutralised swarms of Pakistani drones to push back aerial incursions, while teams of cyber warriors on ground countered digital intrusions and a wave of misinformation. In fact, even before India decimated nine terror camps in Pakistan-Occupied-Kashmir and Pakistan under Operation Sindoor with precision strikes early on May 7, many Indian websites had become targets of cyberattacks. Days after the dastardly Pahalgam attack in Jammu and Kashmir in April, Jalandhar-based Army Nursing College's website was hacked and defaced with an inflammatory message. At least four Army Public Schools (APS), including APS Nagrota and APS Sunjuwan, were targeted by hackers recently, a source said on May 5. Besides, attempts to hack and compromise websites, a "campaign of misinformation" was run against India and the Indian armed forces on the internet, including on popular social media platforms, starting late April which intensified after the launch of Operation Sindoor and following counter-offensives by India after Pakistan's military retaliation. "At 8 pm local time on May 8, several Pakistan unmanned aerial systems, drones, combat vehicles attacked multiple IAF bases. These included Jammu, Udhampur, Pathankot, Amritsar, Bathinda, Nal, Dalhousie, Thoise, Jaisalamer, Uttarlai, Phalodi, Naliya. These were almost simultaneous and they came in waves. All our AD (air defence) guns, and other systems were waiting for them. All these waves were neutralised by our trained crew," Director General of Air Operations, IAF, Air Marshal A K Bharti told reporters on May 11. There was no damage on ground from "these incursions, and mass raids if I could call them from the Pakistani side", he said. India had deployed Barak-8 missiles, S-400 Triumph air defence systems, Akash surface-to-air missiles and indigenously developed anti-drone equipment in thwarting Pakistan's attempts to hit 15 Indian cities on the night of May 7, official sources earlier said. However, as India's robust air defence system intercepted, engaged and neutralised hordes of drones breaching India airspace from Srinagar to Sir Creek, during the conflict, on ground cyber experts debunked a barrage of erroneous claims, and called out fake news floating in cyberspace. Besides cyber experts, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri, Col Sofiya Qureshi and Wing Commander Vyomika Singh, in their successive joint briefings to share details about Operation Sindoor, also fact-checked several claims made by Pakistan. Misri told reporters here on May 9 that Pakistan made the "preposterous and outrageous" claim that it was the Indian armed forces and the Indian Air Force that was targeting cities like Amritsar and trying to put the blame on Pakistan, and countered it by saying, "...that we would attack our own cities is the kind of deranged fantasy that only the Pakistani State can come up with". "...this disinformation that is coming from Pakistan about India targeting the Nankana Sahib Gurdwara through a drone attack. This is again yet another blatant lie, and part of Pakistan's disinformation campaign," he said. Strategic affairs experts and members of many defence think-tanks say spreading misinformation and fake news on cyberspace, especially in times of a conflict scenario, is "part of any new-age warfare". "It's a mind game, even if the information is wrong, the adversary seeks to demoralise the other side," a member of the senior management of Delhi-based Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, said. The government's Press Information Bureau (PIB), which has a dedicated Fact Check Unit, has debunked a series of false claims since the Pahalgam attack. On April 30, it trashed claims made in posts by "several pro-Pakistan social media accounts" that the then commander of Indian Army's Northern Command, Lt Gen MV Suchindra Kumar, had been 'removed' from his post after the Pahalgam attack, and dubbed it as "fake". Soon after the cyberattacks, a defence source on May 5 said that "appropriate and necessary measures" were being taken to "bolster" cybersecurity infrastructure, "enhance the overall resilience" of online platforms and "strengthen digital defence" mechanisms to safeguard against further "intrusion attempts". Furthermore, "cybersecurity experts and agencies are actively monitoring cyberspace" to detect any additional cyberattacks, particularly those that may be sponsored by threat actors having alleged cross-border link, the sources had said. The Headquarters Integrated Defence Staff, in a post on X on Tuesday, said the "successful conduct" of Operation Sindoor has set "new normals in India-Pakistan relations", highlighting the country's strength and national resolve through military superiority in the "new-age warfare". "Synergised Force application through jointness and integration achieved in #OpSindoor with demonstrated battle effectiveness of indigenous kinetic force multipliers was showcased to the #FSAs, while highlighting Technological Superiority of the Indian armed forces in niche non-kinetic domains of space, cyber and electronic warfare," it posted. While India and Pakistan have reached an understanding to stop all firings and military actions, Indian military and cyber warriors remain vigilant to thwart any misadventure from the adversary, in air or in digital domain.
Hindustan Times
02-05-2025
- Hindustan Times
India thwarts Pakistani attack on Army after Pahalgam horror: ‘New Low For Pak'
Indian cybersecurity agencies have foiled a series of coordinated cyberattacks by Pakistan-based hacker groups targeting Army-linked websites, including those of Army Public Schools in Nagrota and Sunjuwan, and platforms serving Air Force veterans and ex-servicemen's healthcare. The attacks, which escalated after the deadly Pahalgam terror attack, were traced to groups identified as 'Cyber Group HOAX1337,' 'National Cyber Crew,' and 'IOK Hacker.' Watch for more
India Today
02-05-2025
- Politics
- India Today
Pak hackers try to breach Indian websites, wave of cyber attack attempts foiled
Pakistan-sponsored hacker groups launched several unsuccessful attempts to breach Indian websites on Thursday, in a continued wave of cyber offensives. These hacking attempts were swiftly detected and neutralised by Indian cybersecurity one of the incidents, hacker groups including 'Cyber Group HOAX1337' and 'National Cyber Crew' targeted the websites of Army Public Schools in Jammu, attempting to deface them with messages mocking the victims of the recent Pahalgam terror separate cyberattack defaced a website providing healthcare services for ex-servicemen, while websites of the Army Institute of Hotel Management and Indian Air Force veterans were also among those targeted. Beyond Army-linked domains, Pakistan-based hackers have repeatedly attempted to infiltrate websites connected to children, elderly veterans, and civilians, according to the Maharashtra Cyber Department has recorded over 10 lakh cyberattacks on Indian systems by hacking groups from multiple countries, including Pakistan, following the April 22 terror attack in Pahalgam, news agency PTI to a senior police official, Maharashtra Cyber, the state police's cybercrime detection wing, has observed a significant surge in digital attacks since the Kashmir terror believe these cyber offensives are part of a deliberate campaign aimed at escalating tensions in the digital space. They are seen as elements of Pakistan's broader hybrid warfare strategy, which has long involved the use of terrorism and information warfare against addition to Pakistan, cyberattacks have also originated from the Middle East, Indonesia, and Morocco. Many of the hacker groups have claimed allegiance to Islamist ideologies, suggesting a possible coordinated cyber warfare effort, the police official InMust Watch IN THIS STORY#Pakistan
