ዘመኑ ባፈራው የቴክኖሎጂ ግብአት በመጠቀም ለህብረተሰባችን ስራ ለሁሉም በሚል ግብ የተሻለ የስራ አማራጭ፣ ለተሻለ ኑሮ፣ ለተሻለ የገበያ ትስስር ፣ ለተቀናጀ የገበያ ተደራሽነት ገዥን ከደንበኛ የማስተሳሰሪያ የቴክኖሎጂ አማራጭ ይዘን መተናል በሁሉም የስራ መስክ በሁሉም የስራ እርከን ስራ ለሚገኙ ባለሙያዎች እና ድርጅቶች የስራ አጋጣሚን መፍጠር
ዘመኑ ባፈራው የቴክኖሎጂ ግብአት በመጠቀም ለህብረተሰባችን ስራ ለሁሉም በሚል ግብ የተሻለ የስራ አማራጭ፣ ለተሻለ ኑሮ፣ ለተሻለ የገበያ ትስስር ፣ ለተቀናጀ የገበያ ተደራሽነት ገዥን ከደንበኛ የማስተሳሰሪያ የቴክኖሎጂ አማራጭ ይዘን መተናል በሁሉም የስራ መስክ በሁሉም የስራ እርከን ስራ ለሚገኙ ባለሙያዎች እና ድርጅቶች የስራ አጋጣሚን መፍጠር
ዘመኑ ባፈራው የቴክኖሎጂ ግብአት በመጠቀም ለህብረተሰባችን ስራ ለሁሉም በሚል ግብ የተሻለ የስራ አማራጭ፣ ለተሻለ ኑሮ፣ ለተሻለ የገበያ ትስስር ፣ ለተቀናጀ የገበያ ተደራሽነት ገዥን ከደንበኛ የማስተሳሰሪያ የቴክኖሎጂ አማራጭ ይዘን መተናል በሁሉም የስራ መስክ በሁሉም የስራ እርከን ስራ ለሚገኙ ባለሙያዎች እና ድርጅቶች የስራ አጋጣሚን መፍጠር
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ዘመኑ ባፈራው የቴክኖሎጂ ግብአት በመጠቀም ለህብረተሰባችን ስራ ለሁሉም በሚል ግብ የተሻለ የስራ አማራጭ፣ ለተሻለ ኑሮ፣ ለተሻለ የገበያ ትስስር ፣ ለተቀናጀ የገበያ ተደራሽነት ገዥን ከደንበኛ የማስተሳሰሪያ የቴክኖሎጂ አማራጭ ይዘን መተናል በሁሉም የስራ መስክ በሁሉም የስራ እርከን ስራ ለሚገኙ ባለሙያዎች እና ድርጅቶች የስራ አጋጣሚን መፍጠር
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Two Chinese nationals have been killed and at least 10 people injured in a suspected suicide attack near Karachi airport in Pakistan.
A third body, not yet officially identified, is thought to be that of the attacker, the BBC understands.
The Chinese embassy in Pakistan said the explosion on Sunday night was a "terrorist attack" targeting a convoy of Chinese engineers working on a power project in Sindh province.
The separatist Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), which has in recent years carried out attacks on Chinese nationals involved in development projects in Pakistan, has said it carried out the attack.In a statement released on Monday, the militant group said it had "targeted a high-level convoy of Chinese engineers and investors" arriving from Karachi airport.
A later statement from the group described it as a suicide attack, and named the perpetrator as Shah Fahad, part of a BLA suicide squad called Majeed Brigade.
The attack was carried out using a "vehicle-borne improvised explosive device", Reuters news agency quoted the BLA as saying.
The explosion happened around 23:00 local time (17:00 GMT) on Sunday.
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called the attack a "heinous act" and offered his condolences to the Chinese people.
"Pakistan stands committed to safeguarding our Chinese friends," he wrote on X.
The country's foreign ministry said it is "in close contact" with Chinese authorities and will "bring to justice those responsible for this cowardly attack".
"This act of terrorism is an attack not only on Pakistan, but also on the enduring friendship between Pakistan and China," the ministry said.
"This barbaric act will not go unpunished," it added.
The Chinese embassy said that the engineers were part of the Chinese-funded enterprise Port Qasim Power Generation Co Ltd, which aims to build two coal power plants at Port Qasim, near Karachi.
Thousands of Chinese workers are in Pakistan, many of them involved in creating an economic corridor between the two countries as part of Beijing’s multibillion dollar Belt and Road Initiative.
The Port Qasim plant is part of the corridor, along with a number of infrastructure and energy projects in Pakistan's Balochistan province, which has a rich supply of natural resources, including gas and minerals.
The BLA along with other ethnic Baloch groups has fought a long-running insurgency for a separate homeland.
It has regularly targeted Chinese nationals in the region, claiming ethnic Baloch residents were not receiving their share of wealth from foreign investment in the province and natural resources extracted there.
The Chinese embassy on Monday reminded its citizens and Chinese enterprises in Pakistan to be vigilant and to "do their best to take safety precautions". The embassy added that it hoped Pakistan would thoroughly investigate the attack and "severely punish the murderer".The blast was reportedly heard in various areas around the city, with footage from local media showing thick smoke and cars set alight.
Pictures online show security officials and firefighters investigating the explosion site, with several vehicles charred by the blast.
A police surgeon, Dr Summaiya told Dawn news: "Ten injured persons, including one in critical condition, have been brought the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical College [JPMC]."
She added the injured included a police constable and a woman.
A statement posted on X from Sindh's Interior Minister's office said that a "tanker truck" had exploded on Airport Road. Roads leading to Jinnah International Airport were sealed off following the attack, but the airport is functioning as usual on Monday.
There has also been heightened security in Pakistan as it prepares to host the leaders' summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO).
There have been multiple attacks on Chinese nationals in Pakistan in recent years. The BLA has claimed responsibility for several of them, including an attack in March on a Pakistani naval airbase near Gwadar port, another main feature of the China-Pakistan economic corridor.
Ildar Dadin, a well-known Russian opposition activist who was fighting in Ukraine on the side of Kyiv, has been killed in action, according to the group that recruited him.
A spokeswoman for that group, the Civic Council, told the BBC that Dadin had died, adding that "he was, and he remains a hero".
The activist-turned-fighter was killed when soldiers from his volunteer battalion, the Freedom of Russia Legion, came under Russian artillery fire in the Kharkiv region of north-eastern Ukraine.
For now, there are no more details and the Legion itself won’t comment whilst it says a military operation is still active.But Ilia Ponamarev, an exiled Russian opposition politician with previous links to the Legion, has told the BBC he is "certain, alas" that Dadin is dead.
Another source clarified that this was "confirmed by those who were with him in battle".
The latest messages I’ve sent to his phone are still marked "unread".
Ildar Dadin became known in Russia a decade ago for his persistence in staging peaceful protests as political repression there intensified.
He was the first person prosecuted under a new Article 212.1 - quickly dubbed Dadin’s Law - that in 2014 made it a criminal offence to commit repeat violations of Russia’s increasingly restrictive rules on protest.
In his case, that simply meant standing on the streets of Moscow with a banner.
Sentenced to two and a half years, Dadin was placed in a punishment cell and immediately went on hunger strike. His prison guards then tortured him to get him to stop.
Soon after his release in 2017, I met him in Moscow and he described being hung from a wall by his cuffed wrists. The guards had then threatened him with rape. He admitted that the brutality nearly broke him.
So when I learned that Dadin had joined a battalion of Russian volunteers fighting for Ukraine, I got back in touch earlier this year and we had a series of long exchanges.
"I can’t sit by and do nothing and so become an accomplice to Russian evil, to its crimes," Dadin explained his decision to sign-up, just as principled and intense as I remembered him.
He’d always considered himself a pacifist but now listed his reasons for taking-up arms: "The aggression, the mass killing, the torture, rape and looting." Still, he chose the callsign Gandhi.
Dadin felt deeply that that he bore personal responsibility for Russia’s full-scale invasion of its neighbour.
He argued that he and fellow Russians had failed to stop Vladimir Putin, allowing themselves to be scared off the streets by police violence and the threat of prison.
"The main thing now is to act according to my conscience," Dadin wrote to me one night from near the frontline in Sumy.
He initially signed-up with the Siberian Battalion in June 2023 before moving to the Freedom of Russia Legion last winter - both officially part of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Recruits are mainly Russian citizens who hope that helping Ukraine defeat Vladimir Putin will be a first step towards ending his rule in the Kremlin.
Their numbers aren’t clear, nor their effectiveness as a fighting force.
They have claimed some successes, including a cross-border incursion into Russia earlier this year at the time of Putin’s re-election.
But for Dadin, the experience wasn’t quite as he’d hoped.
He felt that some of the missions his unit were sent on were "pointless" in any military sense.
He described one battle where he ended up pinned down for eight hours by Russian fire in a bomb crater, with a drone trying to drop a grenade on him, whilst a fellow volunteer soldier bled to death.
And like many Ukrainian soldiers, he was exhausted, fighting with barely any days off and limping from a wound to his hip.
I wondered whether he might leave, but Dadin was clear his conscience would not allow him to sit "on the sidelines".
Not whilst Ukrainians were being killed, as he put it, "by Russian criminals".
"I tried to stop Russia - but did I do it? No," he berated himself in one of our last chats. "And thousands of people have been killed because I did not do enough."
Those who sent him to fight, disagree. "Ildar was strong, brave, principled and honest," the Civic Council wrote. "That’s how we should remember him."
Hurricane Milton is one of the most powerful storms to form over the Atlantic in recent years. The National Hurricane Center has warned that Milton will make landfall as an "extremely dangerous major hurricane" late on Wednesday night or early on Thursday morning. Packing powerful winds of up to 145mph (233km/h), Milton is expected to cause flash flooding, torrential rain and storm surges in Florida. Millions of residents are racing to evacuate as the category four storm barrels towards the state's coastline.
Milton arrives less than two weeks after Hurricane Helene devastated the Gulf Coast and killed at least 225 people in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and North Carolina.On 5 October, Hurricane Milton began life as a tropical storm in the south west of the Gulf of Mexico. The next day, its wind speed started to rapidly intensify – and by 7 October it had reached category five strength. Milton's winds had increased from 80 to 175mph (129 to 282 km/h) in just 24 hours. It is now one of the fastest intensifying Atlantic storms on record.A hurricane forms when a weather disturbance, like a thunderstorm, pulls in warm surface air from all directions. Seawater evaporates and is dragged upwards by converging winds. As it rises, the water vapour cools and condenses into clouds and rain – and more warm moist air spirals up from the surface to replace it. And warmer oceans, mean more extreme hurricanes, experts warn.Hurricane Milton formed in the Gulf of Mexico at the same time that two other large hurricanes were churning above the Atlantic. Hurricane Leslie, in the bottom-right hand corner of the image above, and Hurricane Kirk, towards the top-right, formed a trio of storms on 6 October as Hurricane Milton was gaining strength.
It is unusual to see three storms forming at once this late in the season, meteorologist Philip Klotzbach of Colorado State University pointed out on X, formerly known as Twitter. In fact, it is the first time this number of hurricanes has been seen simultaneously across the Atlantic in the month of October since satellite records began in 1966.
"The ocean temperature in the Gulf of Mexico is at or near record levels right now and this provides hurricanes over that region with plenty of 'fuel'," says Joel Hirschi, associate head of marine systems modelling at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC).The North Atlantic has been "running a fever" for the past year, and sea surface temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico are currently well above average.
"A warmer climate means warmer seas," says Hirschi. "There is growing evidence that the time needed for tropical cyclones to intensify to powerful category four or five storms is reducing as climate warms. The rapid intensifications we have seen in the Atlantic for Beryl, Helene and now Milton follow that pattern."While the powerful winds and gusts that Milton is expected to bring to Florida will be damaging, it is also creating conditions that are likely to see tornadoes develop across central and southern Florida, according to the National Weather Service. Flooding is also more likely as soil moisture levels in many parts of Florida remain following heavy rainfall brought by Helene, which means the ground is not able to absorb as much water.But perhaps the greatest threat to life and property will be the destructive storm surge that Milton is expected bring with it.
Florida is currently undertaking its largest evacuation effort in years, while still dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.
Widespread flooding and strong wind gusts triggered by Hurricane Helene caused billions of dollars in property damage, and blew down trees and power lines in an area stretching from the Gulf Coast to the North Carolina mountains.
Emergency workers are racing to clean up the storm debris from Helene, so that the pieces do not become projectiles when Milton hits. Florida's Department of Transportation removed over 1,300 truckloads of debris on Monday and Tuesday, Governor Ron DeSantis said in a press conference.
"The more debris we can get picked up, the less damage that is going to happen, whether that is floating in the Gulf of Mexico, whether it's projectiles that go into other buildings," DeSantis said.
US President Joe Biden and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have held a much-anticipated 30-minute phone call - believed to be their first contact since August - which included discussions on Israel’s intended retaliation to Iran’s missile strike last week.
The White House described the dialogue as "direct" and "productive", and said Biden and Netanyahu had agreed to stay in "close contact" in coming days. Vice President Kamala Harris also joined the call.
Speaking shortly afterwards, Israel's Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said its attack against Iran would be "deadly, precise and above all surprising".
Two forces are at work. One is Joe Biden’s reluctance to see the US dragged into a war with Iran that it believes would be unnecessary and dangerous.
The other is a strong sense among some in Israel that they have an opportunity to deal a body blow to Iran - their mortal enemy.
Israel’s offensive against Hezbollah has energised Israelis who were desperate to break out of the grinding war of attrition on their border with Lebanon.
Lebanon, for them, felt like success and progress, a stark contrast to the position in Gaza.Despite Israel’s onslaught on Gaza that has killed at least 42,000 people, most of them civilians, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not been able to deliver his two war aims – the destruction of Hamas and the recovery of the hostages.
Hamas is still fighting, and still holds around 100 hostages, many of whom might be dead.
The damage done to Israel’s enemies, Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza, has produced in some Israelis an urgent conviction to go further and mount a direct assault on Iran.
For them, a devastating air attack on Iran is a seductive prospect.
Top of the target list for many Israelis are the heavily fortified sites, some driven deep into mountains where Iran houses nuclear facilities that Israel and others fear could be used to make a bomb.President Biden has made clear the US opposes the idea.
The US believes Iran is not about to make a nuclear weapon. An attack could push them to construct one.
One of the most prominent voices in Israel pressing Netanyahu to ignore US wishes is former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett who says Israel must not hesitate to act against what he calls the Iranian octopus.
He told me that it was "the 11th hour".
Like the opposition politician and former general Benny Gantz, Bennett believes Iran is weaker than it has been for decades because of the damage done to Hezbollah and Hamas.
“Essentially Iran was defending itself with two arms, Hezbollah and Hamas. They were sort of its insurance policy against a strike," Bennett says.
"But now both of those arms are pretty much neutralised.”
Bennett sees the moment as a once in a generation opportunity to do real damage to Iran’s Islamic Regime.
He adds: “Here's the thing. The strategy with Iran - ultimately it's not going to happen tomorrow.
"We need to accelerate the demise of this regime. This is a regime that will fall.
“If Iran acquires a nuclear weapon, the likelihood that they'll use it in order to save the regime is high. And that means that they’re going to turn the whole Middle East into a nuclear nightmare.”Bennett recalled two Israeli attacks on nuclear facilities he believes made the Middle East much safer - in Iraq in 1981 and Syria in 2007.
“People don't like it," Bennett says. "But we saved the world from [Bashar al-] Assad with nuclear weapons.
"We have the thankless job of taking out the nuclear facilities of the worst regimes in the world. Everyone likes to criticise us, but we're doing that job.
"And if they get that bomb, it's everyone's problem. It's not our problem. I want to see how Londoners will feel when there's an intercontinental ballistic missile with a nuclear bomb. We cannot allow that to happen.”Iran and Israel have been in direct conflict since April, after Israel assassinated leading Iranian generals with a big airstrike on the Iranian embassy in Syria.
Iran’s retaliation was a missile strike on Israel. The escalation has continued.
The latest came on Tuesday last week in response to Israel’s assault on Iran's ally Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the assassination of its leader Hassan Nasrallah.
Iran unleashed a huge ballistic missile attack, and Israel’s prime minister vowed to hit back.
President Biden was reluctant to restrain Israel in Gaza. And has "urged" Israel to minimise harm to civilians in Lebanon. But he has been adamant that Israel must not answer the Iranians with a strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
The US believes Iran is not about to make a nuclear weapon.
President Biden has said Israel must defend itself – but not by attacking Iranian nuclear sites – or its oil industry.
The US fears getting dragged into a war it doesn’t want. And there are concerns that if Iran can ride out an attack it will go for broke to produce a nuclear warhead for its missiles.
The next phases in this spiralling war depend on the extent of Israel’s retaliation – which may come any day now.
The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to Americans Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNA, a fundamental principle governing how gene activity is regulated.
The Nobel Assembly said that their discovery is “proving to be fundamentally important for how organisms develop and function.”
Ambrose performed the research that led to his prize at Harvard University. He is currently a professor of natural science at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Rackham’s research was performed at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Harvard Medical School, where he’s a professor of genetics, said Thomas Perlmann, Secretary-General of the Nobel Committee.
Last year, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to Hungarian-American Katalin Karikó and American Drew Weissman for discoveries that enabled the creation of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 that were critical in slowing the pandemic, according to reports.
The prize carries a cash award of 11 million Swedish kronor ($1 million) from a bequest left by the prize’s creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel.
The announcement launched this year’s Nobel prizes award season.
Nobel announcements continue with the physics prize on Tuesday, chemistry on Wednesday and literature on Thursday. The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced Friday and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences on Oct. 14.
The laureates are invited to receive their awards at ceremonies on Dec. 10, the anniversary of Nobel’s death.
The CIS leaders have discussed cooperation within the framework of the commonwealth and international issues, and also advocate deepening cooperation, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday.
“We frankly discussed topical issues of cooperation within the framework of the Commonwealth of Independent States, exchanged views on regional and international issues. Important decisions have been agreed upon that determine the development of the CIS both for the coming year and for the future,” Putin said during his speech at the expanded CIS summit.
In addition, Putin noted that the CIS is developing, and all the leaders of the states gathered at the summit are in favor of further deepening cooperation.
Two Chinese nationals have been killed and at least 10 people injured in a suspected suicide attack near Karachi airport in Pakistan, according to a report by BBC.
A third body, not yet officially identified, is thought to be that of the attacker, the BBC understands.
The Chinese embassy in Pakistan said the explosion on Sunday night was a “terrorist attack” targeting a convoy of Chinese engineers working on a power project in Sindh province.
The separatist Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), which has in recent years carried out attacks on Chinese nationals involved in development projects in Pakistan, has said it carried out the attack.
In a statement released on Monday, the militant group said it had “targeted a high-level convoy of Chinese engineers and investors” arriving from Karachi airport.
A later statement from the group described it as a suicide attack, and named the perpetrator as Shah Fahad, part of a BLA suicide squad called Majeed Brigade.
The attack was carried out using a “vehicle-borne improvised explosive device”, Reuters news agency quoted the BLA as saying.
The explosion happened around 23:00 local time (17:00 GMT) on Sunday.
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called the attack a “heinous act” and offered his condolences to the Chinese people.
“Pakistan stands committed to safeguarding our Chinese friends,” he wrote on X.
The country’s foreign ministry said it is “in close contact” with Chinese authorities and will “bring to justice those responsible for this cowardly attack”.
“This act of terrorism is an attack not only on Pakistan, but also on the enduring friendship between Pakistan and China,” the ministry said.
“This barbaric act will not go unpunished,” it added.
The Chinese embassy said that the engineers were part of the Chinese-funded enterprise Port Qasim Power Generation Co Ltd, which aims to build two coal power plants at Port Qasim, near Karachi.
Thousands of Chinese workers are in Pakistan, many of them involved in creating an economic corridor between the two countries as part of Beijing’s multibillion dollar Belt and Road Initiative.
The Port Qasim plant is part of the corridor, along with a number of infrastructure and energy projects in Pakistan’s Balochistan province, which has a rich supply of natural resources, including gas and minerals.
The BLA along with other ethnic Baloch groups has fought a long-running insurgency for a separate homeland.
It has regularly targeted Chinese nationals in the region, claiming ethnic Baloch residents were not receiving their share of wealth from foreign investment the province and natural resources extracted there.
The Chinese embassy on Monday reminded its citizens and Chinese enterprises in Pakistan to be vigilant and to “do their best to take safety precautions”. The embassy added that it hoped Pakistan would thoroughly investigate the attack and “severely punish the murderer”.
The blast was reportedly heard in various areas around the city, with footage from local media showing thick smoke and cars set alight.
Pictures online show security officials and firefighters investigating the explosion site, with several vehicles charred by the blast.
A police surgeon, Dr Summaiya told Dawn news: “Ten injured persons, including one in critical condition, have been brought the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre [JPMC].”
She added the injured included a police constable and a woman.
A statement posted on X from Sindh’s Interior Minister’s office said that a “tanker truck” had exploded on Airport Road. Roads leading to Jinnah International Airport were sealed off following the attack, but the airport is functioning as usual on Monday.
There has also been heightened security in Pakistan as it prepares to host the leaders’ summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO).
There have been multiple attacks on Chinese nationals in Pakistan in recent years. The BLA has claimed responsibility for several of them, including an attack in March on a Pakistani naval airbase near Gwadar port, another main feature of the China-Pakistan economic corridor.
In April 2022, the group killed three Chinese tutors and a Pakistani driver in a suicide bombing near Karachi University’s Confucius Institute.
In November 2018, gunmen killed at least four people in an attack on the Chinese consulate in Karachi.
Two Chinese nationals have been killed and at least 10 people injured in a suspected suicide attack near Karachi airport in Pakistan, according to a report by BBC.
A third body, not yet officially identified, is thought to be that of the attacker, the BBC understands.
The Chinese embassy in Pakistan said the explosion on Sunday night was a “terrorist attack” targeting a convoy of Chinese engineers working on a power project in Sindh province.
The separatist Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), which has in recent years carried out attacks on Chinese nationals involved in development projects in Pakistan, has said it carried out the attack.
In a statement released on Monday, the militant group said it had “targeted a high-level convoy of Chinese engineers and investors” arriving from Karachi airport.
A later statement from the group described it as a suicide attack, and named the perpetrator as Shah Fahad, part of a BLA suicide squad called Majeed Brigade.
The attack was carried out using a “vehicle-borne improvised explosive device”, Reuters news agency quoted the BLA as saying.
The explosion happened around 23:00 local time (17:00 GMT) on Sunday.
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called the attack a “heinous act” and offered his condolences to the Chinese people.
“Pakistan stands committed to safeguarding our Chinese friends,” he wrote on X.
The country’s foreign ministry said it is “in close contact” with Chinese authorities and will “bring to justice those responsible for this cowardly attack”.
“This act of terrorism is an attack not only on Pakistan, but also on the enduring friendship between Pakistan and China,” the ministry said.
“This barbaric act will not go unpunished,” it added.
The Chinese embassy said that the engineers were part of the Chinese-funded enterprise Port Qasim Power Generation Co Ltd, which aims to build two coal power plants at Port Qasim, near Karachi.
Thousands of Chinese workers are in Pakistan, many of them involved in creating an economic corridor between the two countries as part of Beijing’s multibillion dollar Belt and Road Initiative.
The Port Qasim plant is part of the corridor, along with a number of infrastructure and energy projects in Pakistan’s Balochistan province, which has a rich supply of natural resources, including gas and minerals.
The BLA along with other ethnic Baloch groups has fought a long-running insurgency for a separate homeland.
It has regularly targeted Chinese nationals in the region, claiming ethnic Baloch residents were not receiving their share of wealth from foreign investment the province and natural resources extracted there.
The Chinese embassy on Monday reminded its citizens and Chinese enterprises in Pakistan to be vigilant and to “do their best to take safety precautions”. The embassy added that it hoped Pakistan would thoroughly investigate the attack and “severely punish the murderer”.
The blast was reportedly heard in various areas around the city, with footage from local media showing thick smoke and cars set alight.
Pictures online show security officials and firefighters investigating the explosion site, with several vehicles charred by the blast.
A police surgeon, Dr Summaiya told Dawn news: “Ten injured persons, including one in critical condition, have been brought the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre [JPMC].”
She added the injured included a police constable and a woman.
A statement posted on X from Sindh’s Interior Minister’s office said that a “tanker truck” had exploded on Airport Road. Roads leading to Jinnah International Airport were sealed off following the attack, but the airport is functioning as usual on Monday.
There has also been heightened security in Pakistan as it prepares to host the leaders’ summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO).
There have been multiple attacks on Chinese nationals in Pakistan in recent years. The BLA has claimed responsibility for several of them, including an attack in March on a Pakistani naval airbase near Gwadar port, another main feature of the China-Pakistan economic corridor.
In April 2022, the group killed three Chinese tutors and a Pakistani driver in a suicide bombing near Karachi University’s Confucius Institute.
In November 2018, gunmen killed at least four people in an attack on the Chinese consulate in Karachi.
