PAKISTAN-ISLAMABAD-BLAST-SECURITY-ALERT

PAKISTAN-ISLAMABAD-BLAST-SECURITY-ALERT

(230930) -- ISLAMABAD, Sept. 30, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A policeman checks a vehicle at a police check-post due to security alert in Islamabad, capital of Pakistan on Sept. 30, 2023. An explosion that hit a religious gathering in Mastung district of Pakistan's southwest Balochistan province on Friday left 50 people dead and at least 50 others injured, Pakistani police and health officials said. The explosion, believed to be a suicide attack, occurred near a mosque when people were gathering to celebrate Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi, the birthday of Islam's Prophet Muhammad. In a separate attack on Friday, five people were killed and 10 others injured when a suicide explosion took place inside a mosque in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. (Xinhua/Ahmad Kamal)

PAKISTAN-ISLAMABAD-BLAST-SECURITY-ALERT

PAKISTAN-ISLAMABAD-BLAST-SECURITY-ALERT

(230930) -- ISLAMABAD, Sept. 30, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A policeman stops a vehicle at a police check-post due to security alert in Islamabad, capital of Pakistan on Sept. 30, 2023. An explosion that hit a religious gathering in Mastung district of Pakistan's southwest Balochistan province on Friday left 50 people dead and at least 50 others injured, Pakistani police and health officials said. The explosion, believed to be a suicide attack, occurred near a mosque when people were gathering to celebrate Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi, the birthday of Islam's Prophet Muhammad. In a separate attack on Friday, five people were killed and 10 others injured when a suicide explosion took place inside a mosque in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. (Xinhua/Ahmad Kamal)

PAKISTAN-ISLAMABAD-BLAST-SECURITY-ALERT

PAKISTAN-ISLAMABAD-BLAST-SECURITY-ALERT

(230930) -- ISLAMABAD, Sept. 30, 2023 (Xinhua) -- A policeman stands guard at a police check-post due to security alert in Islamabad, capital of Pakistan on Sept. 30, 2023. An explosion that hit a religious gathering in Mastung district of Pakistan's southwest Balochistan province on Friday left 50 people dead and at least 50 others injured, Pakistani police and health officials said. The explosion, believed to be a suicide attack, occurred near a mosque when people were gathering to celebrate Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi, the birthday of Islam's Prophet Muhammad. In a separate attack on Friday, five people were killed and 10 others injured when a suicide explosion took place inside a mosque in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. (Xinhua/Ahmad Kamal)

PAKISTAN-MASTUNG-EXPLOSION

PAKISTAN-MASTUNG-EXPLOSION

(230929) -- MASTUNG, Sept. 29, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken with a mobile phone on Sept. 29, 2023 shows rescuers evacuating the injured in a powerful explosion in Mastung district, Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province. The death toll of a blast that hit a religious gathering in Mastung district of Pakistan's southwest Balochistan province on Friday rose to 50, police and health officials said. The explosion occurred near a mosque when people were gathering to celebrate Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi, the birthday of Islam's Prophet Muhammad, in the Kora Khan area of the Mastung district. (Xinhua)

PAKISTAN-MASTUNG-EXPLOSION

PAKISTAN-MASTUNG-EXPLOSION

(230929) -- MASTUNG, Sept. 29, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken with a mobile phone on Sept. 29, 2023 shows rescuers evacuating the injured in a powerful explosion in Mastung district, Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province. The death toll of a blast that hit a religious gathering in Mastung district of Pakistan's southwest Balochistan province on Friday rose to 50, police and health officials said. The explosion occurred near a mosque when people were gathering to celebrate Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi, the birthday of Islam's Prophet Muhammad, in the Kora Khan area of the Mastung district. (Xinhua)

Explosion injures 11 in SW Pakistan

STORY: Explosion injures 11 in SW Pakistan DATELINE: Sept. 15, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:28 LOCATION: Islamabad CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the explosion site 2. various of the injured being sent to the hospital STORYLINE: Eleven people, including a leader of a religious political party, got injured in an explosion in Pakistan's southwest Balochistan province on Thursday, police said. The leader of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI) was on his way to attend a political rally in Kalat district when he was attacked while passing by Mastung district of the province, the police told media. Talking to Xinhua on condition of anonymity, police sources from Mastung said that according to initial reports, the leader Hafiz Hamdullah's vehicle was hit by a suicide bomber. The sources added that the suspected bomber rammed his explosive-laden motorbike into the leader's vehicle on a main highway in the district. Talking to media, the JUI's spokesperson Aslam Ghauri said that the leader and his two gunmen got in