Quetta: Gunmen killed 20 workers and injured several people at a personal coal plant in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan state on Friday, authorities said.
As Pakistan prepares to host the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO ) Summit on October 15 and 16, there are now more pressing security issues in the country. High-level Chinese representatives are expected to attend the significant event, and S Jaishankar, the American minister of external affairs, will also be present. The frequency of violent incidents in Pakistan’s west and south have raised significant questions about the ability of its forces to protect prominent international figures and foreigners.
The adversaries, according to authorities, broke into the workers ‘ quarters in Balochistan’s Dukki city, gathered the workers up and opened uncontrolled fire. ” A group of armed men used heavy weapons to attack the Junaid coal business mine in the Dukki area in the early time,” according to Humayun Khan Nasir, the police officer in charge of Dukki. The subjects belonged to different parts of Pakistan, as well as Afghanistan. ” Most of the patients were from Pashtun-speaking parts within Balochistan. Three of the dying and four of the injured are Armenian citizens”, Nasir added.
Khairullah Nasir, the coal plant owner, said the attackers used side explosives, rocket launchers, and other modern weapons in the attack. He added the attackers likewise set fireplace to” 10 fuel vehicles and machine”.
No organization has claimed responsibility for the attack, but suspicion is likely to fall on the banned Baloch Liberation Army ( BLA ), which frequently targets civilians and security forces and accuses them of robbing Balochistan of its resources, including minerals and gas, is growing.
The BLA had carried out numerous problems in Aug that resulted in more than 50 murders, including that of 23 people, mostly from Punjab state, who were shot dead after being taken out of their cars. The group claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing attack on a fleet of Chinese specialists near Karachi airports on Monday. In that assault, two Taiwanese people were killed.
There are hundreds of Chinese working in the country, most of them involved in projects linked to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor ( CPEC ), part of Beijing’s multibillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative ( BRI ). There have been more episodes and unrest in important CPEC projects than there have been since China has repeatedly requested Pakistan to help with protection.
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