Powerful suicide attack rips apart dozens in Pakistan

A powerful bomb blast ripped apart almost one hindered people in a hospital on Monday morning, 8 August 2016. The attack is said to be a suicide attack targeting mourners gathered at a hospital.

The bomber struck as a crowd of lawyers and journalists crammed into the Emergency Department of the Provincial Sandeman Hospital, known as Civil Hospital, after the fatal shooting of president of the Balochistan Bar Association (BBA) Bilal Anwar Kasi earlier in the morning, reports Express Tribune.

The sound of blast was so intense and loud that it had been heard within a radius of five kilometres. The windows of several shops in the neighbourhood were shattered by the thud. As per police, at least eight kilograms of explosive was used in the attack.

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Over 348 dead in Pakistan Earthquake

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A powerful earthquake that rocked many parts of Balochistan and Sindh provinces of Pakistan on Monday, has left more than 348 people dead with more than 500 people injured..

The earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale hit the generally inhabited areas of Balochistan where people live in mud houses, which obviously could not sustain the powerful jolt. 

The massive quake was centred in Awaran district, one of the poorest in Pakistan's most impoverished province, Balochistan. The area's medical infrastructure has struggled to care for the hundreds of injured who were crushed beneath mud brick houses when the quake struck. 

Pakistan Army and the Frontier Corps personnel are busy round the clock to provide shelters and remove dead and injured form the rubble of the collapsed houses.

Tuesday evening's earthquake was so violent, that it has created a new small island from the sea floor. The new island has appeared off the coast of Gwadar in the Arabian Sea, and is estimated to be about 30 meters long and around 10 meters high.

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Pakistani troops salvage and rescue quake victims near Iran border

Soon after the tremors were felt, Pakistan army dispatched its medical teams and salvage parties through helicopters to quake hit areas near Iran border.

The 7.8-magnitude quake, the most powerful to hit Iran for more than 50 years, caused 35 deaths in Pakistan's Balochistan province.

The Mashkel district of Balochistan, Pakistan has been badly hit.

Tuesday's earthquake was about 180 times stronger in energy release than a 6.3-magnitude quake that struck on 10 April near the nuclear plant at Bushehr in south-western Iran. That quake killed at least 37 people and wounded 850.

Scientists say earthquakes in south-eastern Iran are triggered by the clash between the Arabia and Eurasia tectonic plates, the former of which is pushing north at a rate of several centimetres each year.

(via BBC)
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Balochistan resolution: Demarche issued to US envoy again

For the second time in a week, the foreign office summoned the acting US ambassador to record Pakistan’s “strong protest” over a resolution recently tabled in the US House of Representatives backing Balochistan’s right to self-determination.

“Ambassador Richard Hoagland was told in clear terms that the move in the US Congress was contrary to the spirit of friendly relations and violative of the principles of the United Nations Charter, international law and recognised norms of inter-state conduct,” said a statement issued by the Foreign Ministry on Monday.

It may be added that the US administration may have expressed helplessness regarding the hearings and resolutions that have suddenly cropped up on Balochistan in Washington – but Pakistan isn’t buying it.

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US hearing on Balochistan: Pakistan National Assembly condemns congressional hearing

The National Assembly of Pakistan unanimously passed an opposition-sponsored resolution to condemn the recent US congressional hearing on Balochistan, stating that the initiative would jeopardise the healing process of already strained Pak-US ties. The foreign office soon echoed the lawmaker’s stance by lodging a formal protest with the US.

US Charge d’Affairs Richard Hoagland was summoned to the foreign ministry to convey the government’s “serious concerns to the hearing held by the US Foreign Affairs Sub-Committee on Oversight and Investigations in relation to Balochistan,” said an official statement.

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US congressional hearing on Balochistan 'ill-advised' move

Taking a strong exception to a United States Congressional hearing on Balochistan this week, Pakistan has termed it an “ill-advised” move that would be detrimental to the trust between Pakistan and the United States of America.

A Pakistan Embassy spokesman in Washington said that Pakistan’s Ambassador Sherry Rehman raised the issue of an exclusive hearing on Balochistan by US House Committee on Foreign Affairs in her meetings with the members of congress and senior officials of the US administration.

“Balochistan is an integral part of the Pakistan,” the ambassador said. “Pakistan is a democracy conducting itself in accordance with the international law.”

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