3 Killed in Grenade Attack on Shop Selling Pakistani Flags in Balochistan for Independence Day

Three persons died and six others were injured when some armed militants hurled grenades at a house and a store selling Pakistani national flags in the southwestern Balochistan province of Pakistan on Tuesday while the Islamic country was preparing to celebrate its independence day.

The separatist Baluch Liberation Army claimed responsibility for the attacks that took place in the provincial capital of Quetta.

The militant group had asked shop owners not to sell the Pakistani flags. It also warned people not to observe Pakistan’s independence day on August 14.

Pakistan’s army chief Gen Asim Munir promised to quash militancy in a speech at a military academy in Pakistan on the eve of Independence Day.

In another incident, a group of militants killed four security forces in South Waziristan of northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. According to Pak military, six militants were killed in the return fire by the troops.