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Arab News
16-06-2025
- Politics
- Arab News
Five militants with suspected India links killed in Pakistan's northwest — army
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani security forces have killed five suspected militants in two separate intelligence-based operations in the country's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the military said on Monday, alleging the insurgents had links to India. The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the army's media wing, said four militants were killed in a raid in Peshawar district late Sunday, while another was shot dead during a separate operation in North Waziristan. The army described the militants as being 'Indian proxies.' The military said troops 'skillfully surrounded and effectively engaged the Indian-sponsored Khwarij location,' and after an 'intense fire exchange, four Indian-sponsored Khwarij, including Kharji Haris and Kharji Baseer, were sent to hell.' A search operation in North Waziristan led to the killing of another suspected militant, the statement added. Troops recovered weapons, ammunition and explosives at both sites. Pakistan has long accused its neighbor India of backing separatist and other militants to destabilize its territory, a charge New Delhi strongly denies. Militant violence has surged in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province since 2021, when a fragile ceasefire with the Pakistani Taliban collapsed. Attacks by separatists have also spiked in southwestern Balochistan. Islamabad claims that militants receive sanctuary and funding from foreign states like India, Afghanistan and Iran. All three deny the accusations. There was no immediate response from India's foreign ministry to the latest allegations.
Arab News
21-05-2025
- Politics
- Arab News
A look at recent deadly attacks in Pakistan as it battles rising militancy
Following are some recent deadly attacks in Pakistan, where the government is facing insurgencies on two fronts — militant attacks in the northwest and a growing separatist insurgency in the south. MAY 21, 2025 At least three children were among five people killed when a suicide bomber targeted an army school bus in the restive Pakistani southwestern province of Balochistan, in an attack the military blamed on Indian proxies. The Indian government did not respond to a request for comment on the accusation. MARCH 11, 2025 A total of 31 people, including soldiers, staff, and civilians, were killed by militants who hijacked a train as it traveled through a remote mountain pass in Balochistan. The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), the biggest of several ethnic armed groups fighting the government, claimed responsibility. MARCH 4, 2025 Suicide bombers drove two vehicles packed with explosives into a military base in the town of Bannu in the northwest, killing 18 people, including six children. No group claimed responsibility for the violence. NOVEMBER 1, 2024 A blast targeting a police van in Mastung town in Balochistan killed seven people, including five school students, and injured 23 others. No group claimed responsibility. AUGUST 26, 2024 At least 38 civilians and 14 soldiers were killed as separatist militants attacked police stations, railway lines and highways in Balochistan, and security forces launched retaliatory operations. The BLA claimed responsibility for the attacks, the most widespread in the country in years. DECEMBER 12, 2023 At least 57 people, including seven children, died as suicide bombings ripped through two mosques in Mastung while believers marked the birthday of the Prophet Muhammed (pbuh). No group claimed responsibility. JULY 31, 2023 A suicide bombing targeting a hard-line religious group's political rally in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province's Bajaur region killed 56 people. The Daesh militant group claimed responsibility for the blast, which took place in northwestern Pakistan.
CNN
21-05-2025
- Politics
- CNN
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.
CNN
21-05-2025
- Politics
- CNN
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.
Arab News
21-05-2025
- Politics
- Arab News
Three children among five killed in school bus attack in Pakistan's southwest
KARACHI: The Pakistani military said on Wednesday five people including three children were killed in a militant attack on a school bus in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province, with a government official saying the bus had been en route to an army-run school. Around 40 students were on the bus headed to a military school and several had been injured, Yasir Iqbal, the administrator of Khuzdar district told media. The attack took place in Khuzdar, the military said, blaming 'Indian terror proxies.' 'As per the initial reports, three innocent children and two adults have embraced martyrdom and multiple children have sustained injuries,' the army's statement said. Tensions between nuclear-armed neighbors Pakistan and India are high after they struck a ceasefire on May 10 following the most intense military confrontation in decades. Both countries accuse the other of supporting militancy on each other's soil — a charge both capitals deny. The latest military escalation, in which the two countries traded missile, drones and artillery fire, was sparked after India accused Pakistan of supporting militants who attacked dozens of tourists in Indian-administered Kashmir on April 22, killing 26. Islamabad denies involvement. 'After having miserably failed in the battlefield, through these most heinous and cowardly such like acts [attacking school bus], Indian proxies have been unleashed to spread terror and unrest in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhawa,' the army said, referring to two Pakistani provinces. New Delhi has not yet commented on the accusations. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack but suspicion is likely to fall on separatist groups such as the Balochistan Liberation Army, which in March blew up a railway track and took passengers from a train hostage, killing 31. Southwestern Balochistan is Pakistan's largest province by area, but smallest by population and most impoverished. The region of some 15 million people is home to key mining projects and a deep seaport that China is building, but has been roiled by a decades-old insurgency. 'Targeting innocent children is a barbaric act, those responsible deserve no leniency,' Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi said in a statement, describing the attack as a 'vile conspiracy to destabilize the country.' Wednesday's attack was reminiscent of one of the deadliest militant attacks in Pakistan's history when over 130 children were killed in a military school in the northern city of Peshawar in 2014. That attack was claimed by the Pakistani Taliban group. With inputs from Reuters
