Islamabad:
The ISIS group claimed a bomb blast targeting the police in the turbulent south -west of Pakistan, killing three policemen and injured more than a dozen.
On Tuesday, a bomb placed on a parking motorcycle targeted a bus carrying 40 policemen in Mastung city of poor Balochistan province, where security forces have been struggling with communal, ethnic and separatist violence for decades.
In a statement late on Tuesday night, the regional branch of the jihadi group, Isis Khorasan (ISIS-K), often attacks security forces in Pakistan and Afghanistan, claimed that its “soldiers” targeted the “Dharmatiyagi” police.
Pakistan has seen a sharp increase in violence in its regions during the Afghanistan border as the Taliban returned to power in Kabul in 2021, with Islamabad accused his western neighbor that he was allowing his soil to be used for attacks against Pakistan – a claim that the Taliban denied.
In Balochistan, the separatist violence last month intensified an attack on the train carrying 450 passengers by ethnic Baloch militants, which laid two -day siege and killed dozens.
ISIS-K is also active.
The group has claimed responsibility for attacks on religious minorities, targeting the killings of religious scholars and attacks on security officials.
In July 2023, the group claimed a suicide bombing at a political party, killing more than 54 people, including 23 children.
According to AFP Tally, more than 200 people, mostly security officers, have been killed by armed groups in the government -fighting attacks by armed groups since the beginning of the year.
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