... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf...
on Monday ordered action against perpetrators behind the twin suicide kaboom which killed 24 Shia pilgrims in Taftan near the Pakistain-Iran border, officials said.
Sharif directed the Inspector General of the Frontier Corps to personally lead the operation against terrorists.
The bodies and injured were shifted in six army helicopters from Pak-Iran border Taftan to Quetta on Monday morning.
Akbar Hussain Durrani, the Home Secretary in Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
, said a C-130 plane arrived in Quetta to shift the bodies of the Shia pilgrims to Kohat from Quetta. "Around 40 heirs of the victims would also be shifted through the C-130," he said.
Qambar Dashti, the Commissioner Quetta Division, said 14 of the total 18 injured persons were at death's door.
The attack late Sunday night came when a bus carrying Shia pilgrims returning from a visit to holy Mohammedan sites in Iran stopped at a restaurant in Taftan, around 700 kilometres southwest of the bustling provincial capital Quetta.
Durrani said ten buses carrying Shia pilgrims had entered Pakistain from Iran Sunday night. "When the buses were parked at two hotels, there were kabooms," Durrani said.
He said the blasts were followed by intense firing near the hotels. "We fear rise in casualties," he added.
Frontier Corps and Levies personnel were called to bring the situation under control.
However,
the way to a man's heart remains through his stomach...
the front man for Frontier Corps, Khan Wasey, told Dawn.com that the forces killed the remaining two turbans during the operation averting another terror act close to the hotel.
He said the forces were deployed in and around the hotel and sweeping was conducted in the area to avoid another attack.
A Sunni-militant group Jaishul Islam has grabbed credit for the attack.