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Growing extremism and acid attacks in Balochistan. Woman, man gunned down on suspicion of illicit relation in Quetta. Honor killings in Quetta. One security man, two militants killed in Kech attack. Deputy Commissioner killed in Bolan Medical Complex blast. QUETTA: Four Frontier Constabulary (FC) personnel and the Deputy Commissioner were martyred as a result of a terrorist siege at the Bolan Medical Complex here on Saturday. According to reports four nurses are also amongst those killed in the attack. Speaking to the media the city’s police chief said following the operation launched by security forces, a room to room search was being conducted to ensure that the complex was clear.

Zubair providing details of the siege, said a suicide bomber detonated himself inside the complex as the deceased and injured from an earlier blast at a women’s university were being rushed to the medical complex. The police chief added that following the blast, terrorists entered and laid siege to the complex. A second suicide bomber detonated himself on the second floor of the complex as security forces were trying to clear the area. Earlier, at least 14 female students were killed in a blast which targeted the bus of a women’s only university in the city. Bilawal condemns Quetta attacks, urges action against terrorists. KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has strongly condemned the barbaric terrorists’ attacks on Sardar Bahadar Khan Women University and Bolan Medical Complex in Quetta resulting in huge loss of human lives.

At least 20 people including girl students have died in the terrorist attacks in the capital of violence-ridden Balochistan province on Saturday. Bilawal has called the attacks inhuman and beastly acts, which he said the people of Pakistan will never tolerate. In a statement, he said that such attacks are meant to tear down the civil society and take it hostage to impose darkness. “Terrorists need to be dealt with an iron hand instead of appeasing them to protect Pakistan and its founding ideology,” he added. He said schools, hospitals and mosques are being attacked by the terrorists to keep the people illiterate, maimed and spiritually hollow by holding the masses of the country captive.

Gunmen occupy Quetta hospital after bomb blasts kill at least 23 | World news. Gunmen have taken over parts of a hospital in Quetta, in southwestern Pakistan, after two bomb blasts in the city on Saturday. According to officials, one bomb went off inside the hospital's emergency room, killing at least 12 people. Armed men captured different sections of the hospital complex and were positioned on rooftops, said the head of police operations in Quetta, Fayaz Sumbal. Frontier Corps troops and police commandos have been called in and security officials were trying to clear the hospital as quickly as possible, Sumbal said.

An Associated Press reporter on the scene could hear intermittent gunfire as troops took up positions around the building. The violence in Baluchistan, a vast province in southwestern Pakistan, started when a blast ripped through a bus carrying female university students. Footage on Pakistani television of the crisis showed people fleeing from the hospital after the explosion and hiding behind ambulances in the parking lot. Pakistan: 21 people, including students, killed in militant attack. Quetta: Militants in western Pakistan bombed a bus carrying women students on Saturday and then seized part of the hospital where survivors of the attack were taken, killing at least 21 people, officials said. At least 27 were injured. The gunmen in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province long plagued by sectarian violence, were holed up in the emergency ward of a hospital, engulfed in a firefight pitting them against the security forces.

Security forces had forced their way into part of the Bolan Medical Complex, where dozens of patients and staff were believed to be trapped. Television footage showed troops surrounding the building and a helicopter hovering overhead. Pakistani volunteers collect body parts of victims of a bomb blast from the wreckage of a bus in Quetta, Pakistan. AP "They are several in number, we are still facing resistance from them, and people are stranded inside the hospital. The province is also racked by a separatist insurgency.

Reuters. Four women gunned down in Sibi. QUETTA - Four women and a man were killed and two others were wounded in an armed attack on a house in Sibi on Thursday, police said. Police said that unknown armed men barged into an alleged brothel situated on Noopur Road in Sibi and opened indiscriminate firing. Five people, including four women were killed and two others sustained serious wounds. The assailants fled from the scene after committing the crime. The victims were shifted to the Sibi Civil Hospital. Deceased has been identified as Rabia, Kiran, Nadia and Nazia while injured were identified as Saima and Nasima. Injured Saima told newsmen that she along with her housemates was having breakfast when two armed men forcefully entered the house and started indiscriminate firing. “We escaped to another room to save our lives but they followed us and shot everyone in the house,” she said, adding that the women living in the house had no enmity with anyone.

Parties demand fresh polls in Balochistan. QUETTA - Rejecting May 11 polls, majority of political parties in Balochistan have demanded fresh polls in the province, saying the establishment rigged elections to bring certain parties to power. The demand was made during an All Party Conference (APC) organised by JUI-Ideological at MPAs hostel here on Wednesday and announced to launch a protest movement from May 26. Pashtoonkhwa Milli Awami Party and National Party kept out of this meeting. JUI-ideological central leader Asmatullah, Ahle Sunnat wal Jamat Balochistan leader Muhammad Ramzan Mengal, Balochistan National Party-Mengal leader Agha Hassan Baloch, Muhammad Qasim Khan Soori of PTI, Naveed Ahmed of Jahmoori Watan Party, PML-N district level leader Malik Abdul Rahim and others expressed their resolve for re-election in Balochistan.

ONLINE - International News Network. Owner of CD shop killed in Quetta hand grenade attack. 47 killed in Pakistan bombing of Shi'ite town. Balochistan unrest: Bomb defused, man slain in Quetta. A bicycle was fitted with up to 10 kilograms of explosives and was connected to a time device. A bicycle was fitted with up to 10 kilograms of explosives and was connected to a time device.

PHOTO: FILE Frontier Corps personnel discovered a booby-trapped bicycle parked near a hospital in the provincial capital on Sunday. The bicycle was fitted with up to 10 kilograms of explosives and was connected to a time device, according to police. Unidentified miscreants had parked the bicycle near Tariq hospital when an FC patrol spotted it.

Police has registered a case and no arrests were made. Separately a man was gunned down in Quetta when an unidentified man opened indiscriminate fire at Essa Nagri on Brewery Road. In another incident two persons were wounded in a landmine explosion in Lehri tehsil area of Sibi in Balochistan. Man shot dead in Quetta. Blast near Quetta police station kills at least one | Pakistan. —Illustration QUETTA: At least one person was killed and three wounded on Saturday when a powerful explosion shook Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan, DawnNews reported. According to police, a bomb exploded near a police station in the Kuchlak area of Quetta, damaging cars and nearby buildings.

The damage could have been worst as security officials pushed back crowds from the site after recovering 25 kilograms of explosives and 20 liters of petrol in jerry cans from a vehicle parked close to the site of incident. The bomb disposal squad was also called in. The three injured were shifted to the nearby district hospital. Senior police official Wazir Khan Nasir said that parts of a human body were found from the area which indicated that the explosion could either be a suicide attack, or that the bomb exploded while the attacker was planting it near the police station. Rockets hit Quetta neighbourhood, six wounded. Two traders kidnapped in Quetta. Quetta: Kuchlak blast kills one, injures three.

Sunday, February 10, 2013 - Quetta—An explosion Saturday afternoon rocked Kuchlak, a Quetta suburb, killing one person and injuring at least three. According to police, either an explosive device planted in a car or the CNG cylinder fitted inside it, burst at a stones throw from the Kuchlak Police Station. The bang of the blast was heard miles around. A number of buildings in the neighbourhood including Kuchlak police station, which may have been the target of the attack, were partially damaged as the blast sent parts of the car flying around. Security forces cordoned off the area and jumped into action fearing more explosive devices could be in the area. According to sources, the bomb defusers struck as a 25 kilogram improvised explosive device (IED) hidden in another car parked nearby. Bomb defusing squad says there were also placed, next to the IED they defused, two big cans full of gasoline.

Blast in Pakistan's Quetta kills 52, injures 200. World | Agencies | Updated: February 16, 2013 22:50 IST Quetta, Pakistan: A remote-controlled bomb went off in a Shia neighbourhood in Quetta city of southwest Pakistan today, killing 52 people and wounding 200, police said. The explosion occurred on Kirani Road, a neighbourhood of Quetta with a sizeable Shia population that has been targeted by terrorists in the past. A spokesman for the banned Sunni Muslim extremist group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi claimed responsibility for the attack. "The death toll is increasing. At least 52 people were killed in the bomb blast," said Fayaz Ahmad, a senior police official. Wazir Khan Nasir, a top police officer in Quetta, said all the dead were from the Hazara community. "It was a sectarian attack, the Shiite community was the target," he said. Provincial home secretary Akbar Hussain Durrani said the dead and injured included women and children.

Officials described the condition of several injured as serious. Bomb kills 47 in Pakistan’s Quetta. QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan's Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, which intelligence officials say has become a major security threat, claimed responsibility for a sectarian attack on Shi'ites which killed 47 people in the city of Quetta on Saturday. Officials said most of the dead were from Pakistan's Shi'ite minority, which has come under siege from Sunni extremist groups who seem to carry out sectarian attacks at will. "The explosion was caused by an improvised explosive device fitted to a motorcycle," said Wazir Khan Nasir, deputy inspector general of police in Quetta. He said 130 people were wounded. "This is a continuation of terrorism against Shi'ites.

" More than 400 Shi'ite were killed in Pakistan last year, many by hitmen or bombs, and the perpetrators are almost never caught. A spokesman for the LeJ claimed responsibility for Saturday's bloodshed near the main bazaar, school and computer centre. "I saw many bodies of women and children," said an eyewitness at a hospital. Quetta blast: 48 killed, over 100 injured. Three Shia Muslims shot dead in Quetta: police. Shia Muslims burn tyres as they shout slogans during a protest against the killing of their community members by gunmen in Quetta on November 10, 2012. – Photo by AFP QUETTA: Gunmen shot dead three Shia Muslims and wounded three others on Saturday in a fresh sectarian attack in Quetta, police said. “Six persons from the Shia Hazara community were passing from the Jinnah road in a taxicab when they were targeted by two gunmen waiting for them at a traffic signal,” Anwar Ali, a senior police official, told AFP.

“Two persons were killed at the spot while one succumbed to his injuries in the hospital. The gunmen fled the crime scene on a motorcycle,” he said. Another local police official who reached the crime scene soon after the incident confirmed the toll. Balochistan is rife with religious militancy, sectarian violence between majority Sunnis and minority Shia Muslims and a regional insurgency waged by separatists. Pakistan:- Four more shot dead in Quetta ... Gunmen shot dead four more people and wounded three others Saturday in a fresh sectarian attack. According to police, the shooting took place in the provincial capital Quetta which is rich in oil and gas deposits but deeply impoverished and unstable.

Six persons from the Shiite Hazara community were passing from the Jinnah road in a taxicab when they were targeted by two gunmen waiting for them at a traffic signal, Anwar Ali, a senior police official told AFP.Two persons were killed at the spot while one succumbed to his injuries in the hospital. The gunmen fled the crime scene on a motorcycle, he said.Another local police official who reached the crime scene soon after the incident confirmed the toll.Baluchistan is rife with Islamist militancy, sectarian violence between majority Sunnis and minority Shiite Muslims and a regional insurgency waged by separatists. Quetta violence: Three Hazaras gunned down in separate incidents. Quetta shooting: Police official shot dead – possibly by sectarian killers.

SP Kakar was investigating several cases of sectarian violence. SP Kakar was investigating several cases of sectarian violence. PHOTO: FILE A senior police official investigating sectarian killings in Balochistan was shot dead by gunmen in the provincial capital on Friday morning. Jamil Ahmed Kakar, the superintendent of police (Investigation branch), is the 17th police official to have been killed in Quetta over the past three months, according to an official tally. “Gunmen riding on motorcycles intercepted the car of SP Kakar in the Killi Gul Muhammad neighbourhood and sprayed him with bullets,” Mir Zubair, the capital city police officer (CCPO), told the media.

“Kakar died on the spot and a passerby was wounded,” he added. Kakar’s body was shifted to the Combined Military Hospital where medics said that he received two bullets to his upper torso which caused his instant death. Police said they were investigating the motives. Doctors’ strike in Balochistan enters 25th day. Quetta ANP rally bombing kills 6, injures 10. Quetta police find cache of explosives. Government teachers protest in Quetta :: SAMAA TV ::

High-risk zones: Of 64 samples, over a third had polio. WHO report indicates alarming incidence of the crippling virus in sewages. " It is the lack of basic infrastructure and proper sewerage systems that expose children to the risk of polio," WHO Polio Control Unit Chief . ILLUSTRATION: TRIBUNE COMMON More than a third of 64 sewage samples collected from high-risk zones in major cities and towns across the country by World Health Organisation (WHO) have tested positive for polio virus. This was revealed in a quarterly report on polio alert issued by the WHO on Tuesday. The report comes on the heels of new polio case — Pakistan’s 16th this year — emerging in Khyber Agency. According to the report, 26 samples tested positive for polio including seven out of 12 sewage samples collected from Lahore, seven out of eight in Peshawar, four out of seven in Gadap Town in Karachi, two out of four in Rawalpindi and two out of seven in Quetta.

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