A bomb blast in the Pakistani border town of Chaman on Monday killed at least five people and injured 26 others. The blast reportedly took place outside a market on Shahra Mall Road at Chaman's expense.
Assistant Commissioner Chaman Zakaullah Durrani told the BBC that unidentified men had planted explosives on a motorbike and parked it in front of Nada market on Mall Road. He said the bomb exploded with a loud blast, injuring several people and damaging property. The incident is being investigated, the assistant commissioner said. He said that five bodies have been brought to District Headquarters Hospital Chaman so far. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
According to Dr. Muhammad Akhtar, MS, DHQ Hospital, 26 people injured in the blast were brought to his hospital, five of whom were in critical condition and have been shifted to Quetta for treatment.
An Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) vehicle was passing by at the time of the blast, which was damaged and some ANF personnel was reportedly injured in the attack. Balochistan Chief Minister Jam Kamal Khan has condemned the bomb blast and said that terrorist elements want to destroy the peace of Chaman to achieve their nefarious aims. He said that the plan to install a fence on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border was the biggest obstacle in the way of the intentions of anti-state elements.
The Chief Minister said that the installation of the fence would eradicate terrorism and illegal traffic and improve the law and order situation in the province including the border areas. He said that with the cooperation of the people, full peace would be ensured in all areas including Chaman. Senator Usman Kakar, provincial president of the Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party, condemned the incident, calling it a conspiracy. He said that the people of Chaman are very peaceful people and since the people of Chaman are traders and laborers and the greatest need of traders and laborers is for peace in their area.
He said that the people of Chaman not only have cross-border relations but their employment and livelihood also depend on border trade. He said that some quarters wanted to stop the flow of people from here through various tricks and excuses. The Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party leader said that there was a big protest in Chaman against the restrictions on the movement of people and the government had to accept the demands of the people. He said that after the protest, the border was opened for one day traffic but now once again the situation there has deteriorated under a conspiracy.
According to Senator Usman Kakar, those who want to ban people's trade and business from Chaman want to ban it under the guise of these incidents which the people of Chaman will not accept.
Approximately 120 km north of Quetta, Qala-e-Abdullah District, this border town is connected to Afghanistan's Kandahar Province. Like Torkham, it is an important corridor from Balochistan between Afghanistan and Pakistan, but also between the Central Asian states. In addition to public transport between Afghanistan and Pakistan, Chaman also transports Afghan transit trade and supplies for NATO forces stationed in southwestern Afghanistan. Chaman is inhabited by Pashtuns, but the vast majority belong to the Achakzai tribe. The Chaman border was closed like other border areas with Pakistan due to Corona. The closure also cut off the flow of people from Chaman to and from Afghanistan on a daily basis for trade and employment. Although other restrictions were lifted after the border was reopened, the ban on pedestrian traffic was maintained on a daily basis, which was the biggest protest in Chaman's history. In a meeting chaired by Balochistan Chief Minister Jam Kamal Khan in Quetta, security officials blamed the closure of the border on the coronavirus, citing security reasons and smuggling. ۔
The security position at the meeting was that Afghanistan's territory was being used for extremism and militancy in Balochistan. The closure of the border brought all business to a standstill
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