SUICIDE BOMBING IN KARACHI UNIVERSITY
Three Chinese Teachers & one Pakistani Killed
By : Hassan Zubair
Recently the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) has been attacking, to breed anarchy, in Pakistan. BLA was publicly known during the summer of 2000 when they claimed credit for bombing attacks on Pakistani Authorities. BLA had been listed as a terrorist organization, ever since, in United Kingdom and United States. Since 2004 BLA has waged war against Pakistani authorities. They claim to be self-determined for Baloch people. Their purpose is separation of Balochistan from Pakistan.
‘Hyrbyair Marri’ led the BLA in 2007 till Aslam Baloch, also known as, ‘Achu’ became team leader. According to some sources ‘Achu’ had been settled in Afghanistan for quite some time now. Since ‘Aslam Baloch’ was out of the picture ‘Khair Baksh Marri’ took his place and led BLA’s so called righteous propaganda against Pakistan. BLA’s headquarters are known to be situated in Kandahar, Afghanistan .However their major actions involve assassinations, suicide bombing, attacks against civilian and paramilitary forces .The terrorist group is also known for kidnapping people from different backgrounds.
Many Pakistani’s believe BLA to be funded by Indian officials who want complete instability and chaos in Pakistan. According to Local Indian Newspapers BLA commanders had sought medical attention in Indian hospitals. These BLA commanders have been visiting India with false identities over the past years. According to our well-placed source in New Dehli, ‘Aslam Baloch’ had been undergoing a medical treatment in Hospital of New Dehli in 2017. However ‘Hyrbyair Marri’ denies his involvement with BLA. Even claims that he is not a member of BLA, he never was .On the other hand India also denied helping BLA. Although the intelligence agencies of Pakistan know this for sure that BLA had been funded by India, providing financial aid, arms and even training to young BLA members had been India’s top priority ever since BLA came into being. India off course denies it’s involvement but the actions of BLA speak for themselves. Since Suicide bombing, kidnapping and bombing attacks on our own people is not Pakistani’s forte. We Muslims do not work that way. We fight for our rights but we try our best to make sure that no innocent lives are wasted. We firmly believe that victory at the expense of the innocent is not victory at all. Whereas BLA has always targeted innocent lives in Pakistan.
Amongst BLA’s many horrendous acts one that took place on April 15th ,2009 ,when a Baloch activist ‘Brahamdagh Khan Bugti’ , called Balochi’s to kill all the non-balochi people residing in Balochistan . Targeted attacks against ‘Punjabis’ ,’Pashtoons’ and ‘Sindhi’ civilians began. Approximately 500 people were killed in those attacks for which BLA later claimed credit later that year. BLA is without a doubt a terrorist organization funded by all those countries who have been curious to see Pakistan is complete anarchy and chaos like Palestine and Iraq. BLA has been involved in attacks on schools, teachers and students in the province as well.
Recently three Chinese language teaching teachers of Karachi University were killed in a suicide bombing on Tuesday 26th, April 2022. The blast ripped out the minibus in which there were three Chinese teachers and one Pakistani driver. Most surprising lead that Sindh Police came across was that the attacks was carried out by a female militant who had been a student of that university for quite some time. We cannot imagine how deep these organizations have imbedded themselves amongst us. There is no guarantee of anyone these days. Even though BLA had gone under the radar for quite some time now but this monstrous act of inhumane suicide attack confirms that BLA and many other unknown terrorist organizations are amongst us, quiet and calm ready to make there move when they see fit.
BLA actually opposes Chinese investment in Pakistan .According to them the funding in not beneficiary for the locals. It’s the very first time that BLA has used a female militant to target those Chinese teachers. China is no doubt involved in large infrastructure projects across Pakistan, including in resource-rich Province, Balochistan.
Chinese embassy confirmed that three of the country’s citizens had been killed in the attack on ‘Tuesday 26th April 2022′. China’s Foreign Ministry strongly condemned the attack and “demanded” Pakistan to punish the people behind this inhumane act. They also insisted to Pakistani government to protect Chinese citizens and prevent such incidents from happening again.
“The blood of the Chinese people should not be shed in vain, and those behind this incident will surely pay the price,” it said in a statement.
Whereas Pakistani government condemned the attack and called it a ‘cowardly terrorist attack’. Amongst the dead there was the ‘Director of the Confucius Institute’, a Chinese government run-body with a soul purpose of teaching language and expose our youth to the cultural differences between the two nations. This institute offers language related programmes as well as cultural programmes.
According to the CCTV footage a young women standing outside the gate of the institute is waiting for the minibus. As soon as the van arrives she exploded the vest she was wearing .Due to which the passengers on the minibus died on the spot and the people around were injured. BLA released the picture of that female militant named ‘Shari Baloch alias Bramsh’ when it claimed the credit for that horrendous attack.
Balochistan is rich in natural resources but poorest amongst other provinces of Pakistan because of groups like BLA it has become home of insurgency.
This incident however is challenging for New Prime Minister of Pakistan, Shahbaz Sharif .Who said and I quote, “I am deeply grieved on the loss of precious lives including of our Chinese friends in the heinous attack in Karachi today,“. He also promised a speedy investigation.
Islamabad however blames neighbor country, India for backing up this insurgent group of terrorists. Which is denied by the Officials of Indian government in Dehli.
According to our local correspondent in Balochistan .The province is being transformed by the major Chinese infrastructure projects on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a network of roads, railways and pipelines between the two countries which form part of Beijing’s ambitious Belt and road Initiatives.