The warning from Quetta

Suicide bombing in Balochistan is a reminder of the precarious security situation in Pakistan

For several decades, the situation in Balochistan, Pakistan's largest and resource-rich but impoverished and least populated province, has challenges for the government in Islamabad. A policy of allowing the military to put down dissent by the Baloch people with an iron hand and exploitation of the province's natural resources without tangible benefits for the local people has only exacerbated the situation in Balochistan. The suicide bombing at the railway station in the Balochistan capital of Quetta, which targeted army personnel and killed 26 people, is a pointer to the state of internal security in Pakistan.