Pakistan’s relative calm is now occasionally breached with blasts or targeted killings in Balochistan. On Friday, it was again in the grip of bloodshed when two Frontier Corps (FC) personnel were martyred and five others injured in an explosion in Quetta’s Kuchlak area. The explosion is believed to be caused by an improvised explosive device (IED) which hit the vehicle of the patrolling personnel in the old Kuchlak Bypass area. The injured are being treated for their life-threatening injuries, and we pray for their early recovery. A similar IED blast had claimed the lives of a Rapid Response Force sniper on Quetta’s Double Road area on October 15. On October 21, another IED blast targeted law enforcement agencies personnel on Quetta’s Spinny Road where at least two policemen and as many civilians were injured.
The recent blast puts Kuchlak under the spotlight again. In September, this area saw the targeted killings of clerics associated with the Afghan Taliban. Of the two prayer leaders killed within days, one was the brother of Afghan Taliban chief Haibatullah Akhundzada.
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Source: Daily Times