QUETTA: The Balochistan government has announced Rs10 million reward for anyone providing information about those involved in the Mastung bomb attack in which 27 people were killed and formed a team, headed by the home secretary, to investigate the Gwadar incident in which 10 labourers were shot dead.

Speaking at a press conference here, Home Minister Sarfaraz Bugti said that the government of Balochistan stood by the affected families of Sindh and would extend all possible financial help to them.

He said that Balochistan chief minister had announced compensation for all affected families within 15 days, adding that no Baloch had hit any Sindhi in Gwadar, rather terrorists had attacked Pakistanis.

He said that the enemy of the country wanted to pit the people of Pakistan against each other on the basis of ethnicity, race etc but such tactics of the enemy would not weaken Pakistan as the country had the required capacity to defeat all terrorists.

He said that no evidence of involvement of the militant Islamic State group had been traced yet in the Mastung incident and that it was a conspiracy orchestrated by Indian and Afghan spy agencies — RAW and NDS.

He said that such conspiracies were aimed at isolating Pakistan in the comity of nations and declared that the claim of IS involvement in the Mastung incident was fake. He said that forensic team would visit Quetta from Punjab to investigate the incident.

Published in Dawn, May 15th, 2017