14-05-2023
By SJA Jafri
ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI/ QUETTA: The murdering, kidnapping, abusing, threatening, pressurizing, injuring, forced missing and slaughtering of Shia Muslims including young girls and women even children in Pakistan by anti-Shia organizations, especially Taliban, al-Qaeda, ISIS, ISIL, LeJ, JeI, JeM, ASWJ, SeS and dozens of other terror groups have always been remaining in full swing while, the former and present regimes either intentionally and deliberately or unintentionally or un-deliberately the regimes also have been either remained silent or allegedly supporting these organizations and groups or facilitating, financing, supervising, protecting and promoting them against Shia Muslims but some countries mainly Australia have been denying it and claiming that Pakistan has been freed from Taliban and the law and order situation has become under control as claimed, revealed, challenged, questioned and answered by sources.
According to reports, at least 13 people including soldiers have been martyred in an attack on a security facility in southwestern Pakistan.
A Frontier Corps camp in the Muslim Bagh area of northern Balochistan was attacked in the early hours of Friday. The military launched an operation to rescue hostages and clear the area, the military’s media wing, Inter-Services Public Relations, said in a statement on Saturday.
In the process of the operation, “at least six soldiers and a civilian were killed”, it said. Another six people including a woman were wounded.
The dead included all six attackers who the military said were well-equipped and stormed the compound.
“The complex clearance operation involved a hostage rescue operation as well to save three families from a residential block. The terrorists had not even spared children of their horrendous approach,” the statement said.
“The security forces, in step with the nation, remain determined to thwart all attempts at sabotaging the peace, stability and progress of Balochistan,” it said.
In February, a blast at a crowded market in Barkhan killed at least four people and wounded 14.
Pakistan has been reeling from a deadly suicide bombing at a mosque located inside a high-security police compound in the northwestern city of Peshawar amid a rise in attacks in the past several months.
At least 100 people were killed and more than 200 wounded in the deadliest attack in a decade. A commander of the Pakistan Taliban, also known by the acronym TTP, claimed responsibility for Monday’s attack in which almost all the victims were police officials.