NO cause can justify the murder of innocent non-combatants, particularly children. That is why Wednesday’s suicide blast targeting a school bus in Khuzdar is particularly abhorrent.

Among the five confirmed victims were three children. A large number were injured — some of them are in critical condition. The military’s media wing and the Prime Minister’s Office have said India, through its proxies, is responsible for the terrorist act. Apart from attacks on security forces, numerous non-combatants have been killed in Balochistan’s separatist insurgency. The slayings of non-Baloch workers by separatist militants have been a........

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