Jaiswal said, “India condoles the loss of lives in all such incidents.”
India dismisses Pakistan’s allegations about bomb attack on School bus in Baluchistan, latest news
India on Wednesday dismissed the Pakistan military’s allegations linking it to the bombing of an Army Public School bus in Balochistan. India stated that such accusations have become routine for Pakistan, given its own reputation as a hub of terrorism.
On Wednesday morning, a suicide car bomber struck a school bus in southwestern Pakistan killing at least four children and wounding may others.
According to a report by Dawn News updated around 11:40 a.m., three children and two adults were killed in the attack. The report cited the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) of Pakistan.
Jaiswal said, “India condoles the loss of lives in all such incidents.”
He added, “However, in order to divert attention from its reputation as the global epicentre of terrorism and to hide its own gross failings, it has become second nature for Pakistan to blame India for all its internal issues.”
External affairs ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal strongly rejected the “baseless allegations” by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the Pakistani military’s media arm.
Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) has blamed India for carrying out the attack, as reported in a Dawn News report.
“In yet another cowardly and ghastly attack planned and orchestrated by the terrorist state of India and executed by its proxies in Balochistan, an innocent school-going children’s bus was targeted today in Khuzdar,” a statement by the ISPR read.
The statement further added, “After having miserably failed on the battlefield, Indian proxies have been unleashed to spread terror and unrest in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa through these most heinous and cowardly acts.”
“Planners, abettors, and executors of this cowardly Indian-sponsored attack will be hunted down and brought to justice, and the heinous face of India will be exposed to the entire world,” the military vowed.
However, the ISPR did not present any evidence to back its allegation of Indian involvement in the attack. It also alleged that “Indian proxies have been deployed” to incite unrest in the provinces of Balochistan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
As per the dawn report, a probe is underway, and preliminary findings indicate that the attack was a suicide blast.
The attack on the Army Public School bus on Wednesday morning comes just days after a car bombing near a market in Qillah Abdullah, also in Balochistan, which killed four people, according to an Associated Press (AP) report.
There have been several such attacks in Pakistan’s Balochistan region. One of the deadliest occurred in March, when a train carrying about 400 passengers was hijacked by BLA insurgents, resulting in the deaths of 33 people, mostly soldiers.
According to a report by Associated Press (AP), earlier this week the BLA vowed to carry out more attacks on the “Pakistani army and its collaborators,” stating that its goal is to “lay the foundation for a peaceful, prosperous, and independent Balochistan.”
The report also noted that during the recent tensions between India and Pakistan, the BLA had appealed to India for support—an unusual move by the group. However, the report added that there was no immediate response from India to the appeal.
It also highlighted that attacks targeting children in Balochistan are rare. However, the deadliest attack on school children in Pakistan occurred in 2014 in the northwest, when the Pakistani Taliban stormed the Army Public School in Peshawar, killing 154 people, mostly children.
This attack is the latest in the ongoing tensions in Pakistan’s Balochistan province.
According to the reports, a local deputy commissioner, Yasir Iqbal, stated that the school bus was attacked in the Khuzdar district while it was on its way to a military-run school in the city with children on board.
There were no reports any group claiming the responsibility for the attack; however, it is suspected that ethnic Baloch separatists could be behind it.
The Balochistan Liberation Army has been continuously carrying out attacks in the region, and the group was designated a terrorist organization by the United States in 2019.
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