Foreign forces trying to destabilize Pakistan: Interior Minister
Death toll in Quetta blast climbs to five
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Federal Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid on Thursday said that external elements are trying to destabilize Pakistan internally.
Addressing a press conference in federal capital, Sheikh Rashid strongly condemned the Quetta blast which claimed lives of five people and said that he has directed Chief Secretary to investigate the incident.
He said that elements who cannot digest progress of Pakistan are trying create unrest and revealed that 200,000 to 300,000 social media accounts were formed from India in last 10 days to target Pakistan.
The minister said that Balochistan and Gwadar are future of Pakistan and China is closest friend of Pakistan and reiterated that armed forces of Pakistan won fight against terrorism after laying down thousands of lives.
He said Pakistan was a great nation and with the help of its great armed forces and intelligence agencies, will thwart all evil designs as well as conspiracies being hatched in India, against it.
It is pertinent to mention here that death toll from bomb blast at the parking of Serena Hotel on Wednesday has climbed to five after an injured person succumbed to his wounds during treatment at the Civil Hospital Quetta.
Sources said that one police official is among the dead. At least 11 persons injured in the blast are still under treatment at the Civil Hospital Quetta.
An explosion took place at Wednesday night in the parking of a hotel on Quetta’s Jinnah Road, leaving four people dead on the spot and twelve others injured.
Assistant Commissioner Revenue Quetta Ijaz Ahmed and Assistant Commissioner Jaffarabad Bilal Shabbir are also among the injured.
