Quetta blast an attempt to lower national resolve on Independence day

Quetta blast an attempt to lower national resolve on Independence day

At least fifteen people, including eight security personnel, were martyred and twenty five others injured in a bomb blast in Quetta on Saturday.

According to ISPR, the terrorists attacked a military vehicle on duty and incendiary explosive was used in the blast due to which many nearby vehicles caught fire.

The injured people have been shifted to CMH Quetta.

President Mamnoon Hussain, Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, former Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif , Minister of State for Information Marriyum Aurangzeb, Chief Minister Balochistan Sardar Sanaullah Zehri and Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa have strongly condemned the bomb blast in Quetta.

COAS has said that such cowardly attacks would not lower our national resolve against terrorism.