TURBAT: Eight people, including seven Levies Force personnel, sustained injuries on Monday when a bomb targeted the convoy of Kech Deputy Commissioner (DC) Major (retd) Bashir Barech in Turbat, Balochistan, police said.
Kech Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Captain (retd) Zohaib Mohsin confirmed that militants used a remote-controlled bomb in the attack, which occurred on Press Club Road.
He said the explosive device was planted in a motorcycle and detonated remotely as the DC’s convoy passed through the area. “Eight people, including seven Levies personnel and a passerby, suffered injuries,” SSP Mohsin added.
The Kech DC escaped unhurt as he was traveling in a bulletproof vehicle, the officer said. He added that the DC was heading from his residence to his office, and his vehicle sustained minor damage in the blast.
“The explosion was so powerful that it damaged four nearby vehicles and several adjacent buildings,” the SSP stated.
Police and Frontier Corps (FC) personnel cordoned off the area and launched an investigation into the attack.
Pakistan has witnessed a sharp rise in terrorist attacks in recent months, particularly in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, where militants have increasingly targeted police, law enforcement agencies, and security forces. The surge began after the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) unilaterally ended its ceasefire with the government in 2022.
On Saturday, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, while addressing the Balochistan Workshop in Islamabad, expressed regret over the renewed wave of terrorism in the province and other regions. He urged authorities to “seriously examine the reasons behind the unrest.”
Balochistan has faced several attacks in recent weeks. On October 9, a bomb exploded on a railway track near Dera Murad Jamali, killing a railway employee and suspending train operations — the fourth such attack in a month.
Earlier, on September 30, a bomb blast near Quetta’s Frontier Corps headquarters killed 10 people and injured 32 others.
A week before that, 12 people, including women and children, were injured when the Quetta-bound Jaffar Express came under attack in Mastung’s Spizend area.
On September 18, a blast near a taxi stand in Chaman, close to the Pak-Afghan border, killed five people and injured another.
Similarly, on September 2, a blast at a BNP-M rally in Quetta’s Shahwani Stadium left five people dead and 29 injured.
These consecutive attacks highlight the resurgence of militant violence in Balochistan, posing renewed challenges for the country’s security forces.
