Key points
- Malaika, aged 12, succumbed to her injuries
- Attack was orchestrated by Indian-sponsored proxies (Fitna Al Hindustan)
- Those responsible will be held accountable: Officials
ISLAMABAD: The death toll in the cowardly terrorist attack on a school bus in Khuzdar has risen to six, including four girls and one boy, according to state run television, PTV.
PTV cited security sources as saying, the sixth student, Malaika, aged 12, has succumbed to her injuries.
The attack was orchestrated by Indian-sponsored proxies, Fitna Al Hindustan, aimed at destabilizing Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. In the wake of military setbacks, India has resorted to targeting civilians.
Security sources said that the blood of innocent children will not go in vain, and those responsible will be held accountable.
Earlier, Radio Pakistan cited ISPR on May 21 as saying five people including three innocent children and two adults embraced Shahadat and multiple children sustained injuries as innocent school going children bus was targeted in Khuzdar, Balochistan.
According to ISPR, in yet another cowardly and ghastly attack, planned and orchestrated by terrorist state of India and executed by its proxies in Balochistan on Wednesday.
“Miserably failed”
After having miserably failed in the battlefield, through these most heinous and cowardly such like acts, Indian proxies have been unleashed to spread terror and unrest in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Having failed in the “Operation Bunyan-um-Marsoos” and being hunted by military and law enforcement agencies, these Indian terror proxies are being employed as a state tool by India to foment terrorism in Pakistan against soft targets such as innocent children and civilians.
The ISPR said use of terrorism as a state policy by Indian political government is abhorrent and reflective of their low morality and disregard of basic human norms.
The ISPR further said that planners, abettors and executors of this cowardly Indian sponsored attack will be hunted down and brought to justice and heinous face of India will be exposed in front of the entire world.
Pakistan Armed Forces, with support of brave Pakistani nation, stand united to uproot Indian sponsored terrorism from Pakistan in its all manifestations, the ISPR said.
“UN Security Council”
The members of the UN Security Council have condemned in the strongest terms the heinous and cowardly terrorist attack on a school bus in Khuzdar. The Security Council members underlined the need to hold perpetrators, organizers, financiers and sponsors of these reprehensible acts of terrorism accountable and bring them to justice. They urged all States, in accordance with their obligations under international law and relevant Security Council resolutions, to cooperate actively with the Government of Pakistan in this regard.
