QUETTA: At least eight people have been killed in multiple attacks in southwestern Pakistan, police said on Thursday, with assailants targeting bus passengers based on their ethnicity and security forces. Pakistan has been battling a separatist insurgency in Balochistan for decades, where militants target state forces, foreign nationals and non-locals in the mineral-rich southwestern province bordering Afghanistan and Iran.
"Terrorists have targeted passenger buses and security officials in multiple districts of Balochistan, killing at least five non-local passengers and a security official," a senior provincial police official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. The incident took place in the coastal town of Pasni in Gwadar district — home to massive Chinese infrastructures projects attracting workers from all of Pakistan's provinces. "Dozens of fighters" have "stopped passenger buses and identified non-local travellers", the official added. — AFP
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