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Arab News
4 days ago
- General
- Arab News
One killed, four injured in IED blast in southwestern Pakistan
QUETTA: One person was killed while four others were injured in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province on Sunday night, a police official confirmed. Police said the blast took place at Brewery Road near the western bypass in Quetta, the capital of Pakistan's restive Balochistan. The official confirmed that a vehicle with two people in it exploded due to the blast, injuring passersby on the busy road. 'Unidentified individuals attached a magnetic IED to a private vehicle which exploded in Quetta city,' Mehmood Kharoti, the station house officer at Brewery Road, told Arab News. 'One civilian named Hussain Ali, a resident of Kalat city, was killed in the attack and four people including three passersby were injured,' he added. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, but suspicion is likely to fall on ethnic Baloch separatist groups involved in targeting law enforcers and state-backed tribal leaders in the province. Kharoti said police were investigating the possible motives behind the attack. Balochistan, Pakistan's largest but most impoverished province, has been the site of a long-running insurgency that has intensified in recent months, with separatist militants attacking security forces, government officials and installations and people from other provinces who they see as 'outsiders.' The Pakistani government says it has launched several development schemes relating to infrastructure, health and education for some 15 million people of Balochistan, which is also home to a deep seaport being built by China, gold, copper and coal mines, and has a long coast on the Arabian Sea. The most prominent of these separatist militant groups in the province is the Baloch Liberation Army, which has carried out several attacks against law enforcers and political leaders considered close to the military leadership. Balochistan has seen a spike in militant violence in recent days. An IED blast killed two tribal leaders and injured seven others on Saturday in a remote mountainous town in Quetta district. In March, BLA fighters stormed a passenger train in Balochistan and held hostage hundreds of passengers before the military launched an operation to rescue them. Pakistan's government accuses India of arming and funding separatist militant groups against the state, an allegation that New Delhi has repeatedly denied. The BLA and other similar groups accuse Islamabad of denying the local Baloch population a share in the province's natural resources. Pakistan's government and military deny the allegations.
Yahoo
07-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Germany urges India, Pakistan to de-escalate, updates travel advice
Germany on Wednesday called on India and Pakistan to prevent further escalation, while advising its citizens against travelling to the region after tensions between the two rival nuclear powers escalated following overnight Indian strikes. "After the horrific terrorist attack in Kashmir and the Indian military response to it, there is an urgent need for both countries to act responsibly," the German Foreign Office wrote on social media platform Bluesky, calling on both sides to prevent escalation and protect civilians. The office said it was in contact with both India and Pakistan. It comes after 26 people were killed and 46 were injured in strikes launched by the Indian military overnight on targets in Pakistan and Pakistani-controlled parts of the contested Himalayan region of Kashmir, with three people reportedly killed on the Indian side. India says the attacks are retaliation for a terrorist attack in the Indian-administered part of Kashmir on April 22 in which at least 26 civilians were killed, most of them Indian tourists. New Delhi blames the attack on Pakistan, but Islamabad has denied the accusations and has said it will retaliate against the Indian strikes. The German Foreign Office updated his travel advisory for Pakistan on Wednesday, recommending that citizens postpone planned flights to the country. Following the overnight Indian strikes, Pakistan initially closed its airspace but has since reopened it. International flights to and from Pakistan as well as domestic flights have been suspended, according to the Foreign Office, which also advised against travelling to the regions of Jammu, Gilgit-Baltistan and Kashmir. Travellers were advised to contact their airline for more information on their flight status. The Attari-Wagah border crossing between India and Pakistan remains closed, according to the German Foreign Ministry, which noted that further travel restrictions are possible. A chinar tree branch has fallen on a residential house following a plane crash in Wuyan, after India launched airstrikes on Pakistan. Basit Zargar/ZUMA Press Wire/dpa Security personnel cordon off the area following a plane crash in Pampore, as tensions rise after India launched air strikes on Pakistan on May 7. Basit Zargar/ZUMA Press Wire/dpa Army soldiers examine a building damaged by a suspected Indian missile attack near Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan controlled Kashmir. Hussain Ali/ZUMA Press Wire/dpa A person receives treatment for injuries sustained during a suspected Indian missile attack at a hospital in Bahawalpur, following missile strikes by India on cities in Pakistan, as reported by the Pakistani military's Inter Services Public Relations. Hussain Ali/ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
Yahoo
07-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Pakistan authorizes military to retaliate against Indian strikes
Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience. Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience. Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience. Generate Key Takeaways Pakistan's security Cabinet has declared overnight Indian missile strikes inside its territory as an act of war and authorized the country's military to retaliate, the prime minister's office said on Wednesday. The National Security Committee called the deadly Indian strikes a naked act of aggression and vowed to respond at a meeting in the capital Islamabad chaired by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. "These illegal acts are blatant violations of Pakistan's sovereignty and territorial integrity, which manifestly constituted acts of war under international law," a statement by the premier's office said. "The armed forces of Pakistan have duly been authorized to undertake corresponding actions in this regard." The committee has urged the UN Security Council and the world to recognize the gravity of India's illegal actions and hold it accountable. The Pakistani military said earlier Wednesday that 26 people have been killed and 46 others injured in the Indian attacks on Pakistani targets, while three people were reportedly killed on the Indian side. India launched missile strikes from the air and surface on several areas of Pakistan and Pakistani-controlled parts of the disputed Kashmir region, saying it was targeting the hideouts of militant groups behind a late April attack in the Indian-administered part of Kashmir. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke to both Pakistani and Indian national security advisers overnight in efforts aimed at de-escalation in the region. China, a major power in the region and a close political ally of Pakistan, also called for de-escalation, joining calls by several Gulf Arab states and the United Nations. A person receives treatment for injuries sustained during a suspected Indian missile attack at a hospital in Bahawalpur, following missile strikes by India on cities in Pakistan, as reported by the Pakistani military's Inter Services Public Relations. Hussain Ali/ZUMA Press Wire/dpa A person receives treatment for injuries sustained during a suspected Indian missile attack at a hospital in Bahawalpur, following missile strikes by India on cities in Pakistan, as reported by the Pakistani military's Inter Services Public Relations. Hussain Ali/ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
