Balochistan unrest: Operation launched against targeted killings

QUETTA:

Balochistan Home Minister Mir Sarfraz Bugti announced that security forces have launched an intelligence-based operation in Quetta and its surrounding areas.

Speaking at a news conference late Wednesday night, he said that the operation was carried out without discrimination. Balochistan Inspector General G Amlish Khan and Home Secretary Akbar Hussain Durrani were also present. Earlier, a high level meeting of the provincial security set-up reviewed the spate of targeted killings of Hazara community people in Quetta. Bugti said that police, Levies and Frontier Corps will jointly conduct action against terrorists. He said that terrorists used weapons with silencers in the attack on the Hazara people.

“The conspiracy to pit people against each other in the name of language, sect and religion will be foiled with the help of the people,” he said. He did not agree with a remark that there was no writ of the government and said: “Quetta is under the writ of government and that will be maintained at all cost.”

Bugti said that operation would continue without any discrimination.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 29^th, 2015.