Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will go to Quetta on Thursday to precise solidarity with the individuals and assessment regulation and order state of affairs in gentle of the lethal Jaffar Specific hijacking incident.
The PM’s go to follows the end result of safety forces’ operation throughout which all 33 Balochistan Liberation Military (BLA) terrorists had been eradicated had hijacked the Jaffar Specific which was carrying greater than 400 passengers — taken hostage — on Tuesday.
Asserting the completion of the round two-day-long operation, Director Normal Inter-Companies Public Relations Lieutenant Normal Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry stated the armed forces took half within the motion towards terrorist who “remained in touch with their facilitators and mastermind based mostly in Afghanistan through satellite tv for pc cellphone”.
Items from the Pakistan Air Pressure (PAF), Particular Companies Group (SSG), Military, and Frontier Corps (FC) took half within the operation, the military’s spokesperson stated.
Noting that each one hostages had been freed, the navy’s spokesperson revealed that 21 passengers had been martyred by the terrorists earlier than the clearance operation had commenced. Additionally, 4 FC personnel had been additionally martyred through the assault.
“Whoever did this will probably be hunted down and delivered to justice,” stated Lt Gen Chaudhry, including that the suicide bombers — current close to the hostages utilizing them as human shields — had been taken out by snipers.
In the meantime, with emergency imposed in Sibi and Civil Hospital Quetta, no less than 29 wounded within the Jaffar Specific incident have been shifted to the provincial capital — of which 16 and 13 have been delivered to the CMH and the Civil Hospital, respectively.
Based on the hospital administration, the situation of the injured passengers is secure and they’re out of hazard. Additionally, 47 passengers have been shifted to Quetta from Machh.
In the meantime, the our bodies of these martyred together with a number of of these wounded within the incident have been shifted to the Machh Railway Station and will probably be despatched to their native areas after essential administrative pre-requisites.
Reacting to the unlucky incident, Defence Minister Khawaja Asif lambasted the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) for utilizing related language to that utilized by the Indian media and from accounts from Afghanistan on social media platforms.
“We have to rise above political pursuits and reveal nationwide unity [on such occasions],” stated Asif.