#Pakistan: 4 killed, at least a dozen injured in blast at Quetta s Serena Hotel
A powerful bomb exploded in the parking lot of the Serena Hotel in Quetta on Wednesday night, killing at least four people and wounding 12 others, officials saidhttps://t.co/N3OWDobuwV B Sethia (@sethia b) April 22, 2021
Plumes of fire and smoke billowed into the air as rescue workers were seen placing the injured and lifeless bodies on stretchers and shifting them to ambulances.
Confirming the death toll, Deputy Commissioner Aurungzeb Badini in a tweet said that the fire caused by the blast has been extinguished.
Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed said the Chinese ambassador to Pakistan was lodged in at the hotel, but not present there at the time of the blast. The ambassador is safe, Rasheed told reporters
Follow RT on An explosive-laden car detonated outside the posh Serena Hotel in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province in Pakistan, killing four, as a Chinese delegation was staying there. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the blast.
The explosion swept through the hotel parking lot on Wednesday. According to a preliminary investigation, the blast was caused by a bomb that was planted on a car left outside the four-star deluxe hotel.
Footage from the scene showed flames ravaging the scorched remains of several vehicles as sirens blared.
Blast in the parking area of Serena Hotel Quetta in the month of peace and blessings.@SyedaNidaKazmi#Balochistan#Quettablastpic.twitter.com/DUr8QGN5mn Storai Mandokhail(ایوب) (@AyoubKhan932) April 21, 2021
ISLAMABAD/KARACHI: A blast that killed five people and injured 11 at a luxury hotel in Pakistan’s southwestern city of Quetta, in Balochistan, on Wednesday night was a suicide attack, Pakistan’s Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said on Thursday. The Serena Hotel Quetta, located next to the Iranian consulate in the city and the provincial parliament building, had been
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MANSEHRA: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf MPA Babar Saleem Swati has demanded the federal government to pay the compensation amount to people whose land has been acquired for the airport in Lassan Nawab area of the district.
“The federal government, despite releasing an amount of Rs480 million for the land, is now reluctant to pay this to landowners concerned, this is why the strategically important project is being hurdled,” Swati told reporters here on Wednesday.
The lawmaker said the government had acquired 6276 kanals of land for the airport in 2016, but the PTI-led federal government de-notified its section-4 of Land Acquisition Act. “As the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly has adopted a unanimous resolution moved by me in one of its recent sessions demanding an early completion to this project, the federal government should honour it and expedite the work on this important project,” he said.
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Chairman of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) Rosan P. Roeslani during the webinar Investment Opportunities in China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) in Jakarta, Thursday (22/4/2021). (Antara / Azis Kurmala) Jakarta (ANTARA) - Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) Chairman Rosan P. Roeslani highlighted that the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) speedily upgraded Pakistan’s required infrastructure and bolstered its economy. The CPEC is aimed at rapidly upgrading Pakistan’s required infrastructure and strengthening its economy through the construction of modern transportation networks, numerous energy projects, and special economic zones, Roeslani stated during the webinar Investment Opportunities in China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) in Jakarta on Thursday.