A Pakistan Army soldier was reportedly killed, and fourteen others were injured in two separate explosions targeting Pak forces’ vehicles in Buleda and Pishin towns of Pak-occupied-Balochistan on Friday.
In the Buleda area of Kech district, unidentified individuals targeted a vehicle of Pak Army with an improvised explosive device (IED). The explosion resulted in the death of paramilitary Naik Sher Khan and injured eight others, including Sepoy Junaid, Sepoy Asif Rashid, Sepoy Waheed, Sepoy Usman Ghani, Sepoy Asim, Sepoy Nadir, and Sepoy Rahim. And the condition of two of the injured is critical.
The deceased and injured were shifted to the Teaching Hospital in Turbat, and the Army cordoned off the area following the explosion.
Meanwhile in Pishin, a Pashtun-dominated area of Pak-occupied-Balochistan, a Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) vehicle was bombed by unidentified individuals. The remote-controlled explosion on Bund Khushdal Khan Road injured six people, including three CTD personnel and three civilians. The injured were transported to Civil Hospital in Pishin for medical treatment.
Police and Frontier Corps (FC) sealed off the area and initiated an investigation following the Pishin explosion. No group has claimed responsibility for either of the bombings at the time of this report.
This attack highlights the ongoing security challenges faced by the Army in the region. Since 1948, the Pakistan Army has forcefully occupied the resource-rich region of Balochistan and, to exploit it indefinitely, has launched scathing attacks on the Baloch community.