Blast near ANP rally venue in Quetta kills 4, injures 10
The rally, set to begin after Friday prayers, was being attended by the by the party’s provincial president.
Cars standing nearby were also destroyed.
According to reports, the bomb was planted in a cycle that was standing a few feet away from the stage.
"At least four people, including a young girl, were killed and eight others wounded when the bomb planted on a bicycle went off," local police official Wazir Khan Nasir told AFP.
Police personnel confirmed the death and injuries and began efforts to cordon off the area.
Eyewitnesses said there was one little girl among those injured.
No rescue teams were able to reach the scene due to the location and people began rescue efforts on their own.
The injured were shifted to the Civil Hospital.
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@Pi: It is a fact that cannot be negated. We have started having trouble in Baluchistan only after US had brought India into Afghanistan. As long as Taliban were holding the fort in Kabul our KPK and Baluchistan were absolutely peaceful.
@Schazad: The vast vast majority of 'pshtun butchers' are pashtuns themselves. The same is the case for all other pakistanis. The injustice will not even begin to fade until you acknowledge that the problem lies within, not without.
Pukhtoons are being butchered all over Pakistan, be it in their home towns or far away from it. All responsible has to pay the price for all this mess and the day is not far off when we will see light of the day. This dark night has to end. This injustice has to go.
@Sunder Khan Afridi:
Yes, all the hardcore jihadis are a RAW, CIA, Mossad, KGB, KHAD, alien, tooth fairie conspiracy. We are never EVER responsible for anything including our decades of support in creating these jihadis.
@Aditya Randhawa: Humanity has lost to the RAW sponsored terrorism, launched from the Afghan soil. Islam Zindabad, today and for all times to come.
Islam Zindabad, Humanity has lost to Islam
In just 72 hours, Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar, Quetta, Lower Dir and some other cities have been attacked by Taliban. Related to Nato supply??
here we go again.
Yawn.
For the ANP it is getting from bad to worse. First it was their homegrown city of Mardan, presently in Karachi and the latest is attacking and harassing the ANP is Quetta. The issue is not the MQM or ANP but the ideological basis and the geography on which the founding fathers laid the basis of independence. Successive governments have, we all know, hopelessly failed to protect and serve the independence of our country. If the government is unable to conserve the harmony and equality within, then it is up to us civilians to do it. Additionally, it is up to us civilians to ensure the equality of Baluchistan and get rid of the corrupt malaise within and without. The freedom of association cannot be denied to the like minded. Salams to poor and harassed Pakistan