Latest news with #FitnaAlHindustan
Arab News
23-05-2025
- Politics
- Arab News
Pakistan says initial probe confirms Indian involvement in school bus attack in Balochistan
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said on Friday that its initial probe into an attack on a school bus in the Balochistan province has confirmed the involvement of 'Indian terror proxies,' promising to defeat the 'nefarious' designs. Balochistan has been the site of an insurgency for decades, though it has intensified more recently, with groups like the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) carrying out high-profile attacks on civilians and security forces. On Wednesday, at least seven people, including six children, were killed when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device targeted the school bus en route to an army-run school in Balochistan's Khuzdar. Speaking at a press conference alongside a Pakistani military spokesman, Interior Secretary Khurram Muhammad Agha called the Khuzdar bombing an attack on 'our values, our education and on the very fabric of our society.' 'Initial findings confirm that this attack is in continuity of a broader pattern of violence sponsored by India through Fitna Al-Hindustan (FAH) operating under the tutelage and the patronage of the Indian intelligence agency R&AW,' he said, without offering any proof to link New Delhi to Wednesday's assault. The Indian administration has distanced itself from the Khuzdar school bus bombing, attributing such acts of violence to Pakistan's 'internal failures.' The FAH comprises several separatist groups and independently operating cells who have been operating in the insurgency-hit southwestern Pakistani province, according to the Pakistani officials. These cells, after having suffered immense casualties in past few years, have now resorted to hitting 'soft targets.' 'The terror proxies of Hindustan [India] have been tasked to accentuate their heinous attacks of terrorism in Balochistan and elsewhere, sabotage development in the region, incite fear among the population and derail the journey of peace and development in an attempt to repeat their playbook of 1971 [a reference to the fall of Dhaka],' he said. During the presser, Pakistani military spokesman Lt. Gen. Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry detailed various incidents of violence that he said were carried out by India-backed groups. 'Very recently the media international media has seen self-given confessions and acknowledgements of multiple surrendered terrorists of this Fitna Al-Hindustan who told that how Hindustan is funding, planning and carrying out terrorist acts in Balochistan,' he noted. Relations between Pakistan and India touched a new low last month, when gunmen killed 26 people in Indian-administered Kashmir in an attack India blamed on Pakistan. Islamabad denies complicity and Lt Gen Chaudhry said New Delhi had still not provided any evidence to back up its accusation. A day earlier, Pakistan's top diplomat at the United Nations (UN) said they would raise the school bus attack at the UN and present evidence of Indian involvement to the international community. 'This was a heinous terrorist act directed against children, against students, [which is] totally unacceptable and condemnable,' Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad told Arab News in an interview. Interior Secretary Agha said Pakistan and its people, particularly those in Balochistan, reject such 'nefarious designs' and Islamabad had the capacity and will to dismantle these networks and to bring the perpetrators and their handlers to justice. 'I assure you that the state in collaboration with the provincial governments and the state apparatus will defeat them,' he said. 'These Indian sponsored terrorists have no place in Pakistan. We have the wherewithal and the commitment to bring an end to this violence. Our resolved is firm and our response will be decisive.' Pakistan and India have a history of bitter relations and frequently accuse each other of fomenting militancy in the other's territory. Both countries have fought three wars, two of them over Kashmir.
Express Tribune
21-05-2025
- Politics
- Express Tribune
PM, Field Marshal vow to end India-backed terrorism after Khuzdar attack
Listen to article Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir have vowed that it is time for the nation to display a strong resolve—similar to that shown recently against aggression by India—to bring the fight against foreign-sponsored terrorism to a logical and decisive end. PM Shehbaz and Field Marshal Munir paid an emergency visit to Quetta to meet the injured children and other victims of the attack that targeted a school bus in Khuzdar, which left at least five people, including three schoolchildren, martyred and several others injured. Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif {@CMShehbaz} visited Quetta to meet the injured children and other victims of horrific attack on a school bus in Khuzdar. — Government of Pakistan (@GovtofPakistan) May 21, 2025 According to a statement issued by the Prime Minister's Office, Balochistan Chief Minister Sarfraz Bugti and Quetta Corps Commander briefed the PM and Field Marshal on the heinous incident. The PM expressed that the entire nation stands resolute behind its Armed Forces and law enforcement agencies in the collective will to eradicate the scourge of terrorism and safeguard the sovereignty and security of Pakistan. He emphasised that India's reliance on such morally indefensible tactics, particularly the deliberate targeting of children, demands urgent attention from the international community. The use of terrorism as a tool of foreign policy must be unequivocally condemned and confronted. Premier Sharif said that Pakistan's security forces and law enforcement agencies will relentlessly pursue all those involved in this barbaric act. 'The architects, abettors, and enablers of this crime will be held accountable and brought to justice, and the truth about India's cunning role—as the real perpetrator of terrorism, while feigning victimhood—stands exposed before the world,' he added. In a reprehensible and cowardly act of terrorism, a school bus carrying innocent children was targeted today in Khuzdar, Balochistan by India's state-sponsored proxies (Fitna Al Hindustan) increasingly seen as the epicenter of regional instability. Prime Minister Muhammad… — Government of Pakistan (@GovtofPakistan) May 21, 2025 The PM, federal ministers, and Field Marshal expressed deep grief over the loss of innocent lives and the injuries sustained by the school-going children. Upon seeing the badly wounded and critically injured children, they condemned the attack as a shameful and despicable act of terrorism carried out by Indian-sponsored proxies. 'In a reprehensible and cowardly act of terrorism, a school bus carrying innocent children was targeted today in Khuzdar, Balochistan by state-sponsored proxies (Fitna Al Hindustan) of India, which the world has largely come to know as the epicentre of instability in the region,' the statement read. Read More: Three children among five martyred in Khuzdar school bus attack 'Following the gross failure to intimidate Pakistan through overt military means, dastardly terrorist incidents are being orchestrated through these proxies at an intensified scale in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, deliberately targeting civilians in a futile attempt to destabilise Pakistan,' it added. It further stated that these terrorist groups—masquerading under ethnic pretenses—are not only exploited by India as instruments of state policy, but also stand as a stain on the honour and values of the Baloch and Pashtun people, who have long rejected violence and extremism. Khuzdar School Bus Attack The suspected bomber rammed an explosive-laden vehicle into the school bus as it drove past Zero Point near Rakhshan Hotel, Deputy Commissioner Yasir Iqbal Dashti said, adding that the bus was ferrying students to the Army Public School situated within the Khuzdar cantonment. The vehicle was rigged with more than 30 kilograms of explosives, according to the Bomb Disposal Squad. The military's media wing stated that 'three innocent children and two adults have embraced Shahadat' and multiple children have sustained injuries in the 'cowardly and ghastly attack planned and orchestrated by the terrorist state of India and executed by its proxies in Balochistan. The ISPR added that India has unleashed its proxies to spread terror and unrest in Balochistan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhawa through such heinous and cowardly acts after miserably failing on the battlefield. Soon after the deadly attack, security forces threw a cordon around the area and launched an investigation. Security was tightened in and around Khuzdar following the bombing, with checkpoints established and patrols intensified to prevent further attacks. ISPR unmasks India's state-sponsored terror Last month, Lt-Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, the director general of the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) provided evidence of India's state-sponsored cross-border terrorism in Pakistan, particularly Balochistan, announcing the arrest of an Indian-trained Pakistani citizen, and recovery of an Indian drone and improvised explosive device (IED) from him. Addressing a press conference to inform the public about the current security situation in the country and address India's baseless allegation, the DG ISPR said that India was actively involved in spreading terrorism within Pakistan, operating and supporting terrorist networks on Pakistani soil. Lt-Gen Chaudhry said that India had been found operating terror networks inside Pakistan, in which explosives, IEDs, and other lethal materials were being supplied to terrorists to target not only the security forces but also innocent civilians. Read More: ISPR unmasks India's state-sponsored terror The DG ISPR said that on April 25, an arrest was made near the Jhelum bus stand. "A man named Abdul Majeed, who was reportedly trained in India, was taken into custody. Authorities recovered an IED, two mobile phones, and Rs70,000 cash from him," he added. Further investigation led to the recovery of an Indian drone from his house, and Rs1 million in cash. "The handler was a junior commissioned officer of the Indian Army, Subedar Sukvinder," he said, adding: "The Indian officer had sent the IED and instructed the terrorist to collect it from a designated location." "A forensic analysis of the recovered materials provided irrefutable evidence that could be examined by any credible, independent agency," he said. "This irrefutable evidence is just one small component of the broader pattern of state-sponsored terrorism being orchestrated by India," the DG said.
