GWADAR: Two security personnel, including an officer, were martyred and three others injured in a roadside blast that hit their patrolling vehicle in Pasni, a small coastal town of Gwadar district.

According to a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations on Thurs­day, the incident took place late on Wednesday night.

“Terrorists targeted Secu­rity Forces using an IED in Khuda Bakhsh Bazaar near Pasni. An officer Capt. Affan Masood and Sepoy Babar Zaman embraced Shahadat,” the ISPR statement said.

It added that a search operation is in progress to apprehend the perpetrators.

It said such cowardly acts by inimical elements backed by hostile intelligence agencies could not sabotage the hard-earned peace and prosperity in Balochis­tan. Secu­rity forces are determined to neutralise such nefarious designs at all costs, it added.

Published in Dawn, July 16th, 2021

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