Car bomb blast in Pakistani city kills five
Taliban claims responsibility for the attack on a hotel in a Catholic area of Quetta where the Chinese ambassador was staying
Volunteers carry an injured victim on a stretcher at the site of a suicide bombing in Quetta in Pakistan s restive Balochistan province on April 21. (Photo: Banaras Khan/AFP)
Church officials in Pakistan s restive Balochistan province have condemned a suicide bombing in Quetta in which five people died and more than 12 were injured.
Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan has claimed responsibility for the car bomb attack on a meeting of senior Pakistani officials in the Serena Hotel on April 21.
Bomb blast kills 4 at Pakistan hotel hosting Chinese envoy: official
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QUETTA, Pakistan, April 22, 2021 (AFP) – At least four people were killed and a dozen others wounded when a bomb exploded at a top hotel hosting the Chinese ambassador in southwestern Pakistan, officials said late Wednesday.
The blast took place in the car park of the Serena a luxury hotel chain throughout Pakistan in the city of Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province where the military has been fighting a decade-long low level insurgency.
“At least four people have been killed and 12 others were injured,” Pakistan’s interior minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed told AFP, describing it as “an act of terrorism”.
Think tanks attending BFA stress multilateralism, cooperation, and cyber security in post-COVID-19 era
By Dong Feng Published: Apr 22, 2021 08:58 PM
Delegates speak at the round-table talks in Hainan Province on Tuesday Photo: Courtesy of CIIS
Global governance is in definite need of Asia s wisdom and solutions in the post-COVID-19 era, which calls for regional cooperation and multilateralism, said scholars and experts at a round-table on the sideline of the 2021 Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) in south China s Hainan Province on Tuesday.
Hosted by the China Institute of International Studies (CIIS), the round-table attracted more than 40 experts and high-level delegates from institutes and peer think tanks based in Asia. Scholars find it important to foster multilateralism, enhance cooperation, and improve cybersecurity in the post-COVID-19 era.
Blast at Pakistan hotel kills five
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AFP, QUETTA, Pakistan
The Pakistani Taliban yesterday claimed responsibility for a deadly suicide blast at a luxury hotel hosting the Chinese ambassador in the southwest of the nation, as Pakistani officials raised the death toll to five.
Beijing said it strongly condemned the attack, although the Taliban said Pakistani security officials were the target of the blast.
The bomber detonated the explosives late on Wednesday while inside a vehicle in the parking lot of the Serena hotel part of a five-star chain popular with diplomats and aid agencies in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan Province, the Pakistani Ministry of Interior said.