{"id":4753,"date":"2024-11-09T08:01:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T08:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/09\/at-least-24-killed-in-pakistan-train-station-suicide-blast-balochistan-militants-claim-responsibility\/"},"modified":"2024-11-09T08:01:02","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T08:01:02","slug":"at-least-24-killed-in-pakistan-train-station-suicide-blast-balochistan-militants-claim-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/09\/at-least-24-killed-in-pakistan-train-station-suicide-blast-balochistan-militants-claim-responsibility\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 24 killed in Pakistan train station suicide blast, Balochistan militants claim responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            A suicide bombing at a train station in southwestern Pakistan on Friday killed at least 24 people, according to a senior local government official.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Another 53 people were injured in the attack in the city of Quetta, Commissioner Hamza Shafqaat said in a statement.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            \u201cExplosion at the railway station was a suicide bombing,\u201d the statement said.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            The blast happened on a platform at the city\u2019s main railway station at about 9 a.m., Senior Police Superintendent Muhammad Baloch said.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            \u201cThe explosion happened when a large number of passengers were present on the platform,\u201d he said.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Security forces have cordoned off the area, and investigations are underway. The province\u2019s Chief Minister Sarfraz Bugti has ordered an inquiry into the incident.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            In a statement, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif strongly condemned the attack.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            An insurgency in Balochistan has been running for decades but has gained traction in recent years since the province\u2019s deep-water Gwadar port was leased to China, the jewel in the crown of Beijing\u2019s \u2018Belt and Road\u2019 infrastructure push in Pakistan.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            The BLA has been responsible for the deadliest attacks in Pakistan this year, most recently in October when it targeted a convoy of Chinese engineers and investors in the city of Karachi leaving two Chinese citizens dead.    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A suicide bombing at a train station in southwestern Pakistan on Friday killed at least 24 people, according to a senior local government official. Another 53 people were injured in the attack in the city of Quetta, Commissioner Hamza Shafqaat said in a statement. \u201cExplosion at the railway station was a suicide bombing,\u201d the statement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}