India responsible for school bus attack in Balochistan, says ISPR

Indian state-sponsored terrorism against Pakistan, which has been ongoing since the inception of the country, was also responsible for the recent attack on schoolchildren in Khuzdar, Balochistan, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said on Friday.

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Accompanied by Interior Secretary Captain (retd) Khurram Agha, Gen Chaudhry told a news conference that New Delhi had been involved in perpetrating terrorism across the country “since the inception of Pakistan.”

Meanwhile, the death toll from the Khuzdar school bus bombing rose to eight on Friday after three more critically wounded children died, according to the ISPR. The children were going to their Army Public School when the bombing happened.

ISPR spokesperson said that several of the wounded children remain critical. He said an initial investigation suggested the bombing was carried out by insurgents from the outlawed Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), which was designated a terrorist organization by the United States in 2019, on India’s instructions.

Sharif said Pakistan had evidence that India is orchestrating “terrorists attacks inside Pakistan” and the international community should take its notice. India has not responded to the allegation and Pakistan has presented no proof to back up its claim.

In 2009, the Pakistani government handed a dossier containing irrefutable evidence of India’s involvement in terror attacks across Pakistan to the Indian prime minister, he said.