Strage a Quetta: Terrorismo e Rivalità Globali Sconvolgono il Balochistan (Pakistan)

[Autom. eng. transl.] On November 1, 2024, an attack on the polio vaccination campaign in western Pakistan killed seven people, including five children. A bomb planted to target security forces escorting vaccinators in the town of Mastung, south of Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province, killed a policeman, the five children, and a shopkeeper. On November 9, a suicide bombing at Quetta railway station — despite the city being under Pakistani police control — brought the death toll to 31. The attack, which took place at 9 a.m. at the ticket terminal before the departure of the Jaffar Express to Rawalpindi, was claimed by the separatist group Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) and involved more than a hundred people waiting for the train. BLA spokesperson Jeeyand Baloch said the attack, carried out by a member of the Majeed Brigade (Fidayee Muhammad Rafiq of the Bizanjo group, alias Washen Baloch), the group's suicide cell, targeted a Pakistani army unit returning from a training course at the infantry school.