BRAS claims attack on Pak army: Report

NEW DELHI: The Baloch Raji Ajoi Sangar (BRAS) claimed to have carried out an attack on a Pakistani army convoy in Quetta on Sunday, killing nine soldiers and injuring 11 others, according to a report in The Balochistan Post. HT could not independently confirm the incident.

The report came three days after 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel were killed in a suicide attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama and four days after 27 soldiers of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards were killed in a bombing for which the force blamed Pakistani security forces.

Iran’s foreign ministry on Sunday summoned the Pakistani ambassador after Tehran accused Islamabad of harbouring a jihadist group behind the attack.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran expects Pakistan’s government and army to seriously confront... the terrorist groups active on its

IRAN’S FOREIGN MINISTRY ON SUNDAY SUMMONED THE PAKISTANI AMBASSADOR AFTER TEHRAN ACCUSED ISLAMABAD OF HARBOURING A JIHADIST GROUP BEHIND THE ATTACK.

border with Iran,” the foreign ministry said in a statement.

An Iranian official at the ministry called on Pakistan to quickly take the necessary steps for the identification and arrest of the attack’s perpetrators, news agency AFP reported.

According to Sunday’s report in The Balochistan Post, the BRAS claimed responsibility for the attack between Turbat and Panjgur, on the China Pakistan Economic Corridor route. The reported attack occurred hours before Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrived in Pakistan.