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Human Rights Groups Reject Pakistan's Claim of Accidental Explosive in Baloch Attack
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News Analysis IndiaReporter
August 19, 2026
08:20 AM
Several Baluch activists and international human‑rights organizations dismissed Pakistan’s Inter‑Services Public Relations (ISPR) statement that the Surab strike was caused by a premature detonation of a vehicle‑borne improvised explosive device (VIED). They labeled the ISPR narrative as fabricated and highlighted eyewitness accounts that Pakistani fighter jets intentionally bombed residential neighborhoods, leading to a massacre that the local community describes as a calculated punitive operation.
