(26 Aug 2024)
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Quetta, Pakistan – 26 August 2024
1. Wide of Chief Minister Baluchistan talking to media
2. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Sarfraz Bugti , Chief minister of Baluchistan:
“Do you think you can break Baluchistan through arms, this is just your imagination, it will not happen for the next thousand years and such attacks cannot reduce our resolve. And we will avenge the lives of our martyred soldiers, but the question that the terrorists have left for us will be answered in the same manner according to the law.”
3. Cutaway
4. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Sarfraz Bugti, Chief minister of Baluchistan:
“The government of Baluchistan along with its security forces have the capacity and will, God willing, we can take them, their facilitators, their sympathisers and all the actions they are doing, God willing. We will deal with them with full force, until the last terrorist.”
5. Cutaway of reporters typing on their mobiles
6. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Sarfraz Bugti , Chief minister of Baluchistan:
“We all have to fight against this terrorism, the federal government, the provincial government, everyone, this is terrorism, this violence and taking up arms against the state, and then your crude illusion that you will succeed in breaking Pakistan, God willing, there is no question. It can never be.”
7. Cutaway of cameramen
8. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Sarfraz Bugti , Chief minister of Baluchistan:
“Our cleaning operation is still going on right now. About 21 terrorists have been sent to hell, by the time I am talking our forces’ engagement with them (attackers) is in a couple of places. It is happening even now, I am confirming at this stage that 21 terrorists are dead, and there are four to five left, and with the reports I have, the number may be more.”
9. Reporters typing
10. End of press conference with Bugti surrounded by reporters
STORYLINE:
Sarfraz Bugti, the chief minister in Pakistan’s Baluchistan province, told reporters in Quetta that he will deal with separatists who carried out recent attacks with "full force."
Multiple attacks in Pakistan’s restive southwest have killed at least 38 people, the highest death toll in a 24-hour period blamed on separatists in Baluchistan province in recent years.
“We all have to fight against this terrorism, the federal government, the provincial government, everyone, this is terrorism, this violence and taking up arms against the state, and then your crude illusion that you will succeed in breaking Pakistan, God willing, there is no question. It can never be,” said Sarfraz Bugti , Chief minister of Baluchistan.
Gunmen mowed down people after dragging them off buses, cars and trucks.
Police and passersby were fatally shot in broad daylight in another district.
A railway bridge connecting the province with the rest of the country was blown up.
A police station was attacked.
There have been other reports of shootings.
The assaults were more audacious and brutal than the ones usually perpetrated by militants, who normally target security personnel or installations.
Though Pakistan’s largest province, Baluchistan is its least populated, made up largely of high mountains.
It’s also a hub for the country’s ethnic Baluch minority, whose members say they face discrimination and exploitation by the central government.
That has fuelled a separatist insurgency demanding independence. Islamic militants also operate in the province.
The government says it has largely quelled the violence, but assaults persist with raids by security forces and counterattacks.
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