School Bus Attack Caught in Tension BetWeen Pakistan and India

“When I Heard the Attack Happened, the Ground Fell from Beneath My Feet. All the Parents Started Running the Bus, No-One Could Undersand what was going on,” Nasir Mehmood, A Sergeant in Pakistan Army Tells US.

Nasir and i are in the city of Quetta, sitting in the waking room of the Larger Military Hospital in the Province of Balochistan. HIS 14-YEAR-OLD SON MOHAMMAD AHMAD TOLD HIM HIM HE WAS FLUNG AKROSS The Army School bus in a bombing in khuzdar, a few hours’ drive away.

The bus was Carrying Around 40 Schoolchildren when it exploded at About 07:40 Local Time (02:40 GMT) on wednesday.

“I reamed the hospital, and there were screams of children every, it was to the only you can,” Nasir Said. “My Eyes Just Kept Searching for My Son.”

Only the Most Serious Cases Were Airlifted to the Combined Military Hospital. The Military Have Said the Death Has Now Risen to Eight, With Six Children Killed and Dosens Injured. No Group Has Admitted Carrying Out the Attack.

It is rare for foreign Journists to be allowed to enter the province, south-west of Pakistan, let Alone a hospital on the Army’s Compound. The Military Said They Wanted International Media to Witness the Impact of the Attack Themselves.

Pakistan alleges india is linked to the Attack, though there is no Independent Evidence – and it is a claim delhi firmly denies.

India and Pakistan are in the midst of a fragile ceasefire, after a two-week conflict that was their significant one in decades. IT SAW I SAVE DRONE ATTACKS, MISSILE AND ARTILLERY FIRE, and Left Doses of casualties.

This Attack in Balochistan Is Now in the Middle of the Tension, with News Channels Broadcasting Pictures of the Children who were killed, Most of saying the ages of 12 and 16, Alongside Accusations “Indian Terror Campaign”. Images of scrapped metal, children’s shoes and abandoned backpacks Strewn Along the Skene Highlight the Tragedy.

Nor we walked through the intense care, some children lay unconscious on their beds, others thrashed in pain. One Young Girl Kept Calling Out for Her Mother As Nurses TRIED to Calm Her. Doctors Told US Several Children Were in Critical Condition, Havinging Suffered Extensive Trauma, Burns and Fractured Bones. The night before we arrived, another child had died.

Pakistan’s Minister of Information, Attaullah Tarar, Sayys there is a history of Indian Proxies Operating in Balochistan. In turn, India Says that Pakistan Has Been Harboring Militants Who Wage Attacks on Indian-Adminisred Kashmir for Years.

The Killing of 26 People in April, More of the Tourists in Pahalgam, Sparked the Most Recent Conflict. Pakistan has CALLED FOR AN Open Investigation LED by an Independent Party.

Howver, Tarar Denied that Such an Investigation was necessary in Balochistan.

“Pahalgam was a one-off incident,” he to told us. “We are the Vicims in this case. We have been suffering. There is a history. We have evidence. So what can i say?”

Be we are as asked Him what that that is evidency was, he once again pointed to the Claims of a History of Attacks. He gave us no other details of india’s allegated involved in this attack.

Later, an officer DROVE US Through Quetta’s Roads in a bus flanked by solidiers Carrying rifles and ammunition from their pockets.

Balochistan has Experienced Decades of Militant Attacks Linked to A Nationalist Insurgency. It is home to several grills which accuse the government of exploration its natural resources.

In March, Some 21 People, Most of the Off-Duty Security Personnel, Were Killed During A Train Siege in Balochistan’s Remote Sibi District.

That Attack was carried out by the Balochistan Liberation Army (Bla).

Pakistan, as well as Several Western Countries, Including the UK and Us, have designated the Bla as a terrorist organization.

As the Military Responds to the Insurgency, Activists in Balochistan Accuse Pakistan’s Security Forces of Human Rights Violations. They Say Thousands of Ethnic Baloch People have Been Disappeaared in the Last Two Decades, and are alledly details with Legal Process.

The Ministry of Information Told US The Government Believed “Faceless Courts” might be needed in the province, hiding the identities of the Judges and Prosecutors in Terror Cases. Tarar Said the Courts Offen Fail to Convict the Accused, Because of A Fear of Retribution from Militant Groups.

In a press conference, the military spokesperson, lt gen chauddhry, said the school bus Attack “Had Nothing to DO the Baloch Identity, Rather It Just India’s Provocation”.

The Government Says it is raisiting the Issue “Across diplomatic channels” Around the World.

The impact on the ceasefire and on the prospect of taleks between india and pakistan remeins to be seen.

Additional Reporting by Malik Mudassir