22 passengers killed in Musa Khel, ‘children and students were used’

Government officials of Pakistan’s Balochistan province have claimed that three terrorists of the group that killed 22 passengers from buses in Musakhel have been killed and two arrested in an operation. The rest of the members and facilitators involved in the attack have also been identified, for their arrest, operations have been launched in neighboring areas including Musakhel, Loralai and Daki.

Officials say that the terrorist organization used children and students for the operation.

This was stated by Provincial Minister Sardar Abdul Rahman Khetran, Member of Balochistan Assembly from Musa Khel and Loralai, Provincial Government Spokesperson Shahid Rand and Deputy Inspector General CTD Aitzaz Ahmed Gurayah during a news conference at Civil Secretariat Quetta.

In the press conference, Talat Aziz, a Balochistan student studying in Punjab University, who left the banned Baloch Liberation Army, was also presented, who claimed that he was misled by the members of the Baloch Council and the Baloch Solidarity Committee and made him a part of the banned Baloch Liberation Army. On realizing the mistake, he ran away and left the banned organization.

Balochistan Government Spokesman Shahid Rand said that on the night of August 25 and 26, 22 passengers were killed on the N70 national highway in Rara Sham area of ​​Musakhel, after which the law enforcement agencies in the area. Worked and tried to trace the elements involved based on the evidence in which they succeeded.

DIG of Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) Aitzaz Ahmed Gurayah, explaining the details of the action, said that after the incident of brutal killing of innocent Pakistanis in Rada Sham, there was grief and anger among the people. And orders were also given by Government of Pakistan and Government of Balochistan, so CTD, Intelligence Agencies, FC, Police and Levies all took it as a challenge and worked together and achieved significant success Alhamdulillah. .

He said that three terrorists were killed and two were captured during the operation in Musa Khel. The arrested terrorists made many revelations during the investigation. He himself confessed to being practically involved in the attack and supplying weapons.

According to the DIG, we have come to know about all the terrorists and facilitators involved in the incident. It is also known who was in command, where the planning took place, who provided the facilities, who delivered the weapons and food and who provided the camp site.

According to him, on the basis of this information, an operation has been started in Musakhel, Loralai, Dikki and its surroundings, which has been going on for the last two days, and the details of this operation will be revealed soon.

He said that the same group that killed passengers in Musa Khel is also involved in taking extortion from coal mines in Dikki.

Among those arrested was a 16-year-old boy who told the investigation that children were also used in the operation because children are not searched in this way during transportation. They are also using them for weapons delivery etc.

Aitzaz Guraiya said that the banned Baloch Liberation Army has been proven to have links with another terrorist organization that is present there from whom it also buys weapons.

On this occasion, Provincial Minister Public Health Engineering Sardar Abdul Rehman Khetran said that Musakhel and Barkhan have been very peaceful areas, here terrorists martyred unwashed people on the night of August 25 and 26 who were returning home, local people. Their vehicles were also burnt.

He said that I will not call these terrorists Baloch because terrorists have no religion, nation and tribe. Yesterday, unwashed children were martyred in Mastung. What freedom is it that you want to take? This is barbarism, no religion or morality allows it.

The provincial minister said that the coalition government headed by Sarfraz Bugti is trying to end the influence of hatred towards Punjabis in Balochistan. The government will maintain peace in the province.

Earlier, Talat Aziz, a student who left BLA, said that he belongs to Quetta and received his primary education from here, attended a college in Sabi and got good marks in politics at Punjab University on a scholarship from the Balochistan government. Enrolled in the science department and was now a third year student.

He said that while studying in Punjab, he came in contact with some students of the Baloch Council who misled him and then a fellow student in Quetta persuaded him to participate in the protest sit-in of the Baloch Unity Committee. During this time he came in contact with some people who took him to the mountains.

Talat Aziz said, “Educated youths were being misled in the mountains to kill Punjabis and untouchables, which made me realize that I had chosen the wrong path, so I ran away.”

He said that Baloch youth should not listen to the words of such people who are ruining their future. I am an educated young man but lost my future because of them.

Provincial Minister Sardar Abdul Rahman Khetran said that ‘banned organizations are misleading the youth. What freedom do you want to take by killing innocent people, use the pen instead of the gun because it is the pen that teaches how to live, makes an officer and gives respect.’

Spokesperson of the provincial government, Shahid Rand, said that the provincial government is making a multilateral plan at the provincial level, similar to the National Action Plan, in which efforts are being made to improve, develop and fix the governance model of all sectors including education, health. is

Aitzaz Gouraiya said that ‘all the students who go to Punjab from Balochistan are not like this. Many youths want to improve their future but some organizations are trying to mislead these students by brainstorming and creating such an atmosphere that students are told that there is a lot of abuse in Balochistan.’