Summary MQM chief Altaf Hussain has condemned the attack on Gwadar checkpost.
KARACHI (Dunya News) - Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain has condemned the attack Gwadar Coast Guard checkpost and called for an All Parties Conference to devise a strategy against terrorism.
He urged to have a debate over how to curb ongoing violence by the terrorists. He also expressed grief over the loss of life in the attack.
Altaf Hussain urged the federal government to waste no time and call an APC to eradicate the menace of terrorism.
The statement came after the gunmen attacked a coastguard checkpost in southwestern Pakistan today, killing seven officials and wounding seven others.
The incident happened in the Suntsar area of Gwadar district, 1,420 kilometres (882 miles) southwest of Quetta, the capital of the oil and gas rich Baluchistan province that borders Iran and Afghanistan.
"Around 24 gunmen armed with rockets and heavy weapons, attacked the checkpost and killed seven coastguard officials," provincial home secretary Akbar Hussain Durrani told.
He said at least seven coastguard officials were also injured in the early morning attack.
A local tribal police official Muhammad Ali also confirmed the attack and casualties and said the identity of the attackers was not immediately known.
Balochistan suffers from both terrorism and a regional insurgency which began in 2004, with rebels demanding political autonomy and a greater share of profits from the region's natural resources.
The province has also increasingly become a flashpoint for surging sectarian violence.
Earlier a couple of days ago suicide gunmen and car bombers mounted an unprecedented attack on the local office of the country’s premier intelligence agency in Sukkur Wednesday evening, sparking a shootout that killed eight people and injured over three dozen.
Although there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the brazen attack on the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) office in the upscale Sukkur Barrage Colony, it is likely to revive fears that the reach of militants is spreading in the country.
The Sukkur Barrage Colony is a high security zone where offices of top government officials – including Commissioner House, DIG House, Sindh Rangers Headquarters and Judges Lodges – are situated.
“It was the ISI office which was attacked. The gate and front walls have been blown away,” Major General Rizwan Akhtar of the paramilitary Sindh Rangers, told AFP.
