Lawyers targeted in civil hospital bombing

The senior lawyers lost their lives in a suicide bombings in civil hospital Quetta, Baluchistan province. According to media reports, 53 people killed and dozens injured when a suicide bomber blow himself outside the emergency ward of civil hospital. The lawyers gathered outside the emergency of the hospital to receive the dead body of the senior lawyer who was killed in the targeted attack. One camera man of a private channel was also killed and several other media men were injured in this attack.

According to Baluchistan Home Secretary Akbar Harifal, “The blast occurred after a number of lawyers and some journalists had gathered at the hospital following the death of the president of the Balochistan Bar Association in a separate shooting incident early this morning, More than 50 mourners were entering the emergency department of the hospital, accompanying Advocate Bilal Anwar Kasi body, when the bomb went off, Faridullah, a journalist who was at the scene, told Reuters. Police surrounded the hospital and cordoned off the area after the blast.

An emergency has been declared in hospitals across Quetta and several injured are being shifted to these for treatment. It is clear that the lawyers were the target of this horrific attack on innocent people. Many senior lawyers lost their lives in this barbaric act.

This is a major attack after a period of relative calm in the provincial capital of Baluchistan province. The level of violence has gone gone down in recent period. But this attack is a reminder that long running nationalist insurgency and religious militancy is not over yet.

Baluchistan needs political solution to the political problems. Military actions can bring relieve calm and stability in the situation for time being but can not bring solution on longer terms. Baluchistan will continue to bleed and innocent lives will be lost until the real issues faced by the masses being addressed.