Blast in Quetta leaves four cops dead
QUETTA/ISLAMABAD: Four police were killed and eleven people wounded when militants detonated a bomb hidden under a motorbike in the city of Quetta, police said on Monday night.
The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. Two police were among the wounded, senior police official Abdul Razaq Cheema told AFP. “Two of the injured are critical,” he added.
The motorbike was parked outside a mosque where police personnel were posted in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province.
Investigators worked at the scene, placing evidence markers around a car, one door of which was open and shredded.
The attack came two days after Baloch separatists attacked a luxury hotel in the province’s second city, Gwadar, where development of a port is the flagship project of a multibillion dollar Chinese infrastructure initiative in Pakistan.
Five people including a soldier died in the hotel attack, which also left all three militants dead.
The violence came during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan.
US HASN’T IMPOSED VISA RESTRICTIONS: QURESHI
Pakistan foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said the US hasn’t imposed any visa restrictions on Pakistan, Radio Pakistan reported.
Qureshi was briefing a session of the parliament’s standing committee on foreign affairs in Islamabad on Tuesday.
The foreign minister told the committee that the US was going to deport more than 70 illegal Pakistani nationals.
“Pakistan has asked the US to fulfil legal requirements for the Pakistanis being deported,” Qureshi said.