Qamr Bajwa On Today Bomb Attack

Rawalpindi (Pakistan Daily Online) General Qamar Javed Bajwa Deputy Chairman Senate condemned the attack on Abdul Ghafoor Haidari, Zia expressed as fsus of innocent lives and injured kabhtryn directed to treatment.


 At least 25 people have been killed in an explosion in Pakistan's Balochistan province which appears to have targeted a top lawmaker. The blast hit a convoy carrying Senator Abdul Ghafoor Haideri, the deputy chairman of Pakistan's upper house, as it left a religious school in Mastung. More than 40 other people were injured in the blast. The so-called Islamic State (IS) militant group said it carried out the attack using a suicide bomber.


Mr Haideri was on his way back to Quetta after presenting graduation certificates to students at the religious school when the blast happened. He told Reuters news agency he had sustained minor injuries. "There are many casualties as there were many people in the convoy," he said. The most severely injured were airlifted to hospital in the provincial capital, Quetta.