Arrests after Pakistan court blast
Police detain 36 people after a bomb rips through a courtroom in Quetta.
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Owais Ghani, Baluchistan’s governor, said that the root cause behind the increasing extremism in certain areas is fall out from the situation in Afghanistan.
Talking to a private TV channel, he said extremism has spread in Afghan society due to the three decades of anarchy and unrest in that country.
He added that Quetta suicide attack is the continuation of ongoing suicide attacks in the North-West Frontier Province and Islamabad.
Some extremist organisations willing to create unrest in the country are behind the blast, he said.
Tightened security
Security measures would be tightened in Baluchistan, Ghani said, adding that people’s co-operation is a must for checking the extremists’ activities.
Local authorities also suspect that pro-Taliban militants are targeting sensitive sites to undermine Pakistan‘s support of the US and its so-called “War on Terror”.