The Taliban inside of Pakistan decided to further descend into cowardice today as one of their bombs ripped through a school bus carrying children of Pakistani paramilitary members in a southwestern province.
In the past few weeks, I've been pointing out some very distinct actions by the Taliban that are truly a mirror of the actions taken by al Qaeda in Iraq in which they terrorized the civilian population - the acts of violence now by the Taliban are getting more and more deviant as they prey on the more and more innocent in Pakistani society.
From the report at Breitbart:
A bomb blast tore through a school bus in Pakistan on Tuesday, wounding at least five children in the insurgency-hit southwestern province of Baluchistan on the Iranian border, officials said.
The bus was taking more than 30 children of paramilitary Frontier Corps (FC) fathers to a school in Turbat town, near the Iranian border, police and military officials said.
A remote-controlled bomb exploded when the bus neared Ata Shad College, about 550 kilometres (344 miles) west of the provincial capital Quetta, an FC spokesman told AFP.
"Five children were wounded, three of them are in a serious condition," he said.
Police said more than a dozen children, aged eight to 12 years, were wounded but most of them were discharged after receiving first aid at hospital.
No one has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Now, this is an area of Pakistani not nearly as violent as the northwest provinces and agencies but it is in the general neighborhood of Quetta where there has been plenty of violence and it has been rumored from time to time that several key top leaders of the Taliban have sought to hide in Quetta.
It's obvious - no one in Pakistan is safe from the Taliban...no matter what gender or what age and the question now is the Pakistani government going to reinvigorate the operations to rid the country of them or will they go down that hopeless path again of appeasement?
Bomb wounds Pakistan schoolchildren
A bomb blast tore through a school bus in Pakistan on Tuesday, wounding at least five children in the insurgency-hit southwestern province of Baluchistan on the Iranian border, officials said.
The bus was taking more than 30 children of paramilitary Frontier Corps (FC) fathers to a school in Turbat town, near the Iranian border, police and military officials said.
A remote-controlled bomb exploded when the bus neared Ata Shad College, about 550 kilometres (344 miles) west of the provincial capital Quetta, an FC spokesman told AFP.
"Five children were wounded, three of them are in a serious condition," he said.
Police said more than a dozen children, aged eight to 12 years, were wounded but most of them were discharged after receiving first aid at hospital.
No one has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Baluchistan, which also borders Afghanistan, is gripped by violence blamed on separatist insurgents and Taliban militants.
Hundreds of people have died since rebels rose up in 2004 demanding political autonomy and a greater share of profits from the region's natural oil, gas and mineral resources.
In October, Amnesty International called on Pakistan to investigate the alleged torture and killing of more than 40 Baluch political leaders and activists against a backdrop of Pakistani military operations in the province.
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