Tazeen Akhtar
The terrorists are ruthlessly taking lives of innocent people, from KP to Balochistan. After killing 6 including 5 Chinese in Dasu, KP couple of weeks ago,in latest terrorist attack, 9 laborers have been gunned down by the Baloch terrorists in Nushki and that on the main highway after checking their ID cards from Punjab. High officials of Gov of Pakistan were appreciating each other only a day ago for maintaining peace in the country on Eid ul Fitr.
7 victims are from Manddi Baha ud Din, 2 from Gujranwala and Wazirabad, Punjab. The young workers were going to Iran for livelihood. The cruel terrorist snatched smiles from the faces of their families on the most auspicious occasion of Eid ul Fitr. The concerned including CM Balochistan issued the same shallow statements like ” The terrorists will not be spared” etc.
The same terrorists killed 3 other travelers in the same area by opening fire on their car. They belong to Nushki city. The terrorists stopped their car but they tried to run away and in the meanwhile the terrorists opened fire on their car. Thus the total number of murdered for nothing but terrorism and hatred for Punjab reached to 12.
The victims include 20 years old Shahzaib of Gujranwala who was going to Iran for work first time in his life. He was the youngest in 8 siblings. He sold his bike to be able to travel abroad for work.
The Baloch terrorists stopped the bus bound for Taftan , Iran from Quetta on gun point , offloaded the victims, took them to nearby mountains and shot them in the head, chest and other parts of their body.The terrorists said, ” Who are from Punjab. They get down from the bus.”
Passenger Sajjad Ahmed said there were 70 people on the bus. Masked men stopped the bus near the city of Nushki, took away nine people and told the driver to continue the journey, he told The Associated Press.
“We heard the armed men open fire on those people as we drove away,” he said. “We heard the sounds of firing. The driver took the bus to the closest police station. We didn’t know if those people were alive or not.”
Witness Zahid Imran, 46, told the AFP news agency that when the attackers boarded the bus they berated the abducted travelers, saying, “You Punjabis kill our children, get up and come with us.”
SSP Nushki shared that the victims’ bodies were discovered in a desolate, mountainous area. Approximately 12 armed men, according to the police, had blocked the N-40 Regional Cooperation Development (RCD) highway.
Balochistan Chief Minister Mir Sarfraz Bugti, who has been recently upgraded by apparently PPP but actually by the establishment, as CM for his previous services as Provincial Interior Minister repeated the same words that the people of Pakistan hear mostly after every heinous crime against the public by the terrorists.
CM claimed that the terrorists would not be spared and face the full force of the law. This law rarely moves before the innocent people are killed and seldom the terrorists are brought to book by the authorities. The bereaved families have to bear the irreparable losses themselves only.
Aljazeera adds;
Separatist ethnic Baloch groups in the mineral-rich region have been fighting for decades against the state, saying it denies them their share of regional resources.
Punjabis are the largest ethnic group in Pakistan and are perceived to dominate the ranks of the military locked in a battle to quash Balochistan’s armed factions.
Baloch civil leaders claim their communities are subject to a state-sanctioned regime of extrajudicial killings and disappearances, punishing them for political dissent.
