KHUZDAR: Three people were injured in a hand-grenade attack at a shop in the Wadh bazaar area of Khuzdar district on Thursday.

Levies Force officials said two unidentified people on a motorcycle hurled the grenade inside the shop and escaped.

Levies Force personnel rushed to the scene of the attack and shifted the inj­ured to the district hospital Khuzdar after initial treatment at the Wadh hospital.

“It is a targeted terrorist attack,” Assistant Commissioner Rehmat Murad Dashti said.

The injured were identified as Peer Jan, Sheikh Shahid and Yahya Khan.

No one claimed responsibility for the attack. The Levies Force is investigating the incident.

Published in Dawn, December 24th, 2021

Opinion

Editorial

By-election trends
Updated 23 Apr, 2024

By-election trends

Unless the culture of violence and rigging is rooted out, the credibility of the electoral process in Pakistan will continue to remain under a cloud.
Privatising PIA
23 Apr, 2024

Privatising PIA

FINANCE Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb’s reaffirmation that the process of disinvestment of the loss-making national...
Suffering in captivity
23 Apr, 2024

Suffering in captivity

YET another animal — a lioness — is critically ill at the Karachi Zoo. The feline, emaciated and barely able to...
Not without reform
Updated 22 Apr, 2024

Not without reform

The problem with us is that our ruling elite is still trying to find a way around the tough reforms that will hit their privileges.
Raisi’s visit
22 Apr, 2024

Raisi’s visit

IRANIAN President Ebrahim Raisi, who begins his three-day trip to Pakistan today, will be visiting the country ...
Janus-faced
22 Apr, 2024

Janus-faced

THE US has done it again. While officially insisting it is committed to a peaceful resolution to the...