At least 40 people, including a Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) local leader, were killed and 150 injured in a suicide blast that took place on Sunday at the workers’ convention in Bajaur’s Khar.
The rescue teams reached the blast site and shifted injured to the hospital. Police said that a blast occurred at JUI-F workers convention in Bajaur.
As per initial reports, the blast occurred in front of the NADRA office in Sandiaye area of the Khar in Bajaur.
The district emergency officer shared that the injured are also being shifted to Timergara and Peshawar.
The Police and law enforcement agencies have yet to ascertain the nature of the blast, as whether it was a planted bomb blast or a suicide blast.
Meanwhile, the security personnel cordoned off the area and a search and clearance operation is underway.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif telephoned JUI-F supremo Maualana Fazal ur Rehman and strongly condemned the blast.
Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah strongly condemned the explosion in the JUI convention in Bajaur district.
The minister said that cowardly acts of terrorists cannot defy nation’s spirits to fight terrorism.
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazul-ur-Rehman strongly condemned the blast and urged workers to ensure blood for the injured workers of the party.
Foreign Minister and PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari condemned the bomb blast in JUI-F convention in Bajaur.
Bilawal Bhutto expressed his condolences to the victim families.
Bilawal urged federal and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa governments should bring the patrons of terrorists to justice. FM Bilawal said terrorist planners needed to be eliminated.
Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Sirajul Haq and JI leader Senator Mushtaq Ahmed Khan condemned the blast on strongest possible words.
ANP Member of National Assembly and former chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Amir Haider Khan Hoti wrote on the social media platform ‘X’ that inhumane attack on the workers’ convention of JUI in Bajaur was condemnable and perpetrators of such acts are not at least human.
“We firmly stand with the victim’s family and the party at this difficult time,” he added.
He said that unfortunately all the parties are silent on the ongoing unrest in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa governor Haji Ghulam Ali strongly condemned the explosion and commented no religion allowed killing of innocent people.
He vowed to provide best facilities will be provided to the injured and termed these incidents as cowardly acts. “The attack is a conspiracy to weaken the country,” he stressed.
He said according to DC and Commissioner, 35 people were killed in the blast.
“There must have been some negligence in security,” he admitted, putting question mark on the upcoming elections.
KP Caretaker Information Minister Feroz Jamal also strongly condemned the incident and said 35 people have been killed, around 200 are injured.
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