{"id":14026,"date":"2016-10-25T11:43:21","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T11:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=14026"},"modified":"2016-10-25T11:43:21","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T11:43:21","slug":"isis-claims-quetta-attack-and-pakistan-goes-on-high-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/isis-claims-quetta-attack-and-pakistan-goes-on-high-alert.html","title":{"rendered":"ISIS Claims Quetta Attack and Pakistan Goes on High Alert"},"content":{"rendered":"

ISIS Claims Quetta Attack and Pakistan Goes on High Alert<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

ISIS Claims Quetta Attack and Pakistan Goes on High Alert:-<\/strong> The Islamic State claimed responsibility Tuesday for the latest major attack in Pakistan, an overnight assault on a police training college in the southwest that officials said had killed at least 61 people, most of them cadets.<\/span><\/p>\n

The attack, carried out by three militants wielding guns and explosives, also wounded 120 people at the college outside Quetta, the capital of the restive province of Baluchistan. The militants struck late Monday and battled security forces for several hours before they were killed. Two detonated suicide vests, and the third was shot, said Mir Sarfraz Bugti, a provincial minister.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Amaq news agency, which acts as a news wire for the Islamic State, posted a picture of three men who it said were the attackers, holding guns and wearing ammunition vests. The Islamic State had also claimed credit for the last major attack in the Quetta area, an August suicide bombing at a hospital in the city that killed dozens of lawyers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pakistani officials had earlier blamed Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a banned militant group affiliated with the Taliban, for the assault on the police college. After the Islamic State claimed responsibility, a senior security official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the news media, said the Islamic State had \u201coutsourced\u201d the attack to Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.<\/span><\/p>\n

The assault on the college showed that extremist groups remain a serious threat for the Pakistani military and security forces, which have claimed great success against militants in recent years. As the country reeled Tuesday from the latest attack, security forces were put on high alert across Pakistan, and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and the army chief, Gen. Raheel Sharif, said they would visit Quetta.<\/span><\/p>\n

Baluchistan is home to a decades-old separatist insurgency, and Taliban militants maintain a presence in Quetta and many other parts of the province, which borders Afghanistan and Iran. Anwar ul-Haq Kakar, a spokesman for the Baluchistan government, blamed Afghanistan for the attack on the police college.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAll such attacks have been managed from across the border in Afghanistan,\u201d Mr. Kakar said. \u201cHostile intelligence agencies of neighboring countries are directly responsible for terrorism in Pakistan.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr. Kakar said that some of the wounded were in critical condition and that the death toll could rise. \u201cWe are investigating the failure of law enforcement agencies,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Baluchistan\u2019s chief minister, Nawab Sanaullah Zehri, said intelligence reports days earlier had indicated that an attack on Quetta was imminent. He suggested that security preparations in the city itself had led the militants to target the college, which is about nine miles from the capital.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSecurity was already on high alert, and maybe that is why they have targeted the police training center on the outskirts of the city,\u201d Mr. Zehri said.<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the injured cadets, Qasim Ali, said the attack had begun late Monday night as they were getting ready for bed. \u201cSuddenly we heard gunshots,\u201d Mr. Ali said by telephone from a hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe ran toward the hall door to close it,\u201d Mr. Ali said. \u201cI was wounded in my chest and left leg when the attacker threw an explosive device inside the hall.\u201d He said he took cover under a bed and lost consciousness.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI wish we\u2019d had enough guns,\u201d Mr. Ali said. \u201cThe terrorists could have been killed easily before they could kill us.\u201d Cadets ordinarily do not keep weapons with them during training.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/10\/26\/world\/asia\/quetta-attack-isis-pakistan.html<\/span><\/p>\n

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