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QUETTA, Pakistan : People were buried Saturday in southwestern Pakistan after an explosion that killed 128 people at a political rally in one of the deadliest attacks from the country. The suicide bombing in the city of Mastung, near Quetta, capital of Balochistan province, is the latest in a series of bombings perpetrated last week, raising fears over violence before the 25 July national elections.
Hospitals in the region were placed under "emergency" management after being submerged yesterday, with 150 wounded in the blast – many of them still in critical condition after have suffered a head trauma.
hospitals and canceled the holidays of doctors and paramedics, "said Baluchistan Interior Minister Agha Umar Bungalzai AFP .
Provincial Interior Minister Haider Shako added that additional security forces had been deployed in "sensitive areas" and warned politicians to remain "vigilant".
Among the dead was Siraj Raisani, candidate for a provincial seat. The newly formed Local Balochistan Awami Party (BAP).
The BAP on Saturday suspended campaign-related events and called on its supporters to observe three days of mourning.
The attack was the deadliest since the aggression of a school by the Taliban in the city of Peshawar (northwest) in 2014, killing more than 150 people, mostly children , and one of the deadliest in Pakistan's long struggle against militancy.
Mastung's explosion comes a few hours after four people were killed and 39 others injured when a bomb concealed inside a motorcycle exploded near the convoy of ############################################################################################### 39, another politician in Bannu, near the border with Afghanistan.
The politician – Akram Khan Durrani, a Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) party candidate – survived
No group has yet claimed responsibility for this attack.
And on Tuesday, a bomb claimed by the Pakistani Taliban targeted a rally by the Awami National Party (ANP) in the city of Peshawar. After the attacks, analysts called on the country's armed forces to focus on security rather than politics, following countless allegations that the military has been ingesting the country's upcoming polls. "It has never been so true that the Pakistani security establishment must focus on security, not on politics," wrote analyst Mosharraf Zaidi
in an editorial of the English daily. Dawn . called on the authorities to "not only enhance security but also mobilize all intelligence services to do the job they are intended to do, ie to prevent attacks" .
Attacks occur at a time Minister Nawaz Sharif was arrested Friday in the eastern city of Lahore, while aiming to revive the base of his troubled party – insufflating new uncertainties in countries surveyed. – AFP
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