It seems that terrorist incidents are once again taking a similar direction as in the past, in which there is an aspect of harassment of people from different sectors and professions. Ordinary poor laborers are being targeted as soft targets. 

The latest example of this is the martyrdom of 11 miners in a car explosion incident in Harnai district of Balochistan. 

It is said that due to the holiday in the mines on Friday, miners and laborers go to the market to buy essential items. The laborers who were targeted in the said explosion were also going to the market for shopping when their vehicle hit a landmine planted by terrorists in the Takri area of ????Shahrug tehsil, as a result of which 11 laborers in the vehicle were killed and 7 were injured. 

President Asif Zardari, Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi, Governor Balochistan Jafar Mandokhel and Chief Minister Mir Sarfaraz Bugti expressed their sorrow and solidarity with the affected families and said that the killers of the poor laborers will soon be brought to justice and no one will be allowed to disrupt peace and order in the province. 

The deceased and injured miners belong to different areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, including Swat and Shangla. Earlier, serious incidents of unrest, including bomb blasts and attacks on security forces, have been reported in Harnai district. 

There are a large number of coal mines in Shahrg and other areas of Harnai, in which thousands of miners and laborers work. 
Apart from coal mines, this area is famous for vegetable production. Compared to the past, the situation here has improved now. No matter how much condemnation is given to the latest incident, it is less. 
Terrorists do not deserve any leniency. They should be made a lesson. Internal and external evildoers are after our security. The entire nation should unite and work together to root them out.

Similar incidents also occured last year. As if the pathetic working coniditions at coal mines in Balochistan was enough  that terrorists have also started targetting  the poor workers working in these mines.
It seems that the incidents of terrorism are once again taking a direction like in the past, in which the aspect of harassment of people from different fields and professions is implied. Ordinary poor workers are being targeted as soft targets. 

Few months back, the attack by armed men on the coal mines in Daki region of Balochistan with rockets, hand grenades was reported and other heavy weapons in which at least 20 miners were killed and 7 injured. 
The attackers also set fire to the machinery of 10 mines. The deceased workers belong to Qila Saifullah, Pashin, Zhob, Kuchlak, Musa Khel and Afghanistan. 
According to the police, the armed men gathered the workers in groups and opened fire. 

No one had accepted the responsibility of this attack so far, but in the past, the banned militant organization Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) has been accepting responsibility for such attacks. All the business centers of the city shut down in protest against this incident. 

Balochistan Chief Minister Mir Sarfraz Bugti had ordered immediate and effective action against terrorists. But the incidents continue to occur.
This year, there have been many incidents of attacks on laborers in different areas of Balochistan, in which most of the laborers belonging to Punjab were targeted. Dikki is located in the northeast at a distance of about 300 kilometers from the provincial capital Quetta. There are coal deposits in which a large number of workers work. 

Incidents of abduction of workers and attacks on security forces have been taking place in Daki and its suburbs before. 
Terrorists have targeted innocent laborers to the extreme of cruelty, which is hardly to be condemned. 
The agenda of terrorists is to destabilize Pakistan. The terrorists must eliminated and they do not deserve any concession. They must be severely punished.

As a matter of  fact, the coal-miners are facing double tragedy. On the one hand, the terrorists have started targetting them while on the other hand, the pathetic working conditions in coalmines  take toll on the lives of miners. 

In recent years, a great number of labourers have lost their lives in  explosions in coal mines in winter season.

Such incidents have become a common occurrence in our coal mines in both the KP and the Balochistan provinces.
Such explosions occur mainly due to gas build-ups but no mechanism has been in place to check such conditions which lead to explosions.

It is high time the government should value human life, and enforce health and safety measures at mines so that the working conditions are improved.
Since last year there is an unprecedented rise in such incidents. 
Few months back, as many as four miners were lost their lives while another three were injured  in an explosion at a coal mine in Sara Gurgai area of Balochistan.

Last year's statistics show that over one hundred coal miners died   in mining accidents in the province.
The worst working conditions of Pakistan's mining sector where every year scores of miners lose their lives.  They are the most vulnerable section of laborers community which is exposed to horrors and extreme human rights violations. They not only lose their lives due to unsafe working conditions but the sad aspect is that they are also subjected to violence by the nationalists and the extremists like Islamic States. 

Yet another, sad aspect of the mining sector in Balochistan is that the compensation for death and injury of miner is lower in the province i.e. Rs300,000 as compared to other provinces where it stands at Rs500,000.
Regrettably, nothing has been done on part of the government to pay attention to the ongoing plight of miners. The irony is that that despite all the fatalities every year, occupational health and safety conditions have not been improved. 

The miners get very low daily wages but the owners of these mines earn huge profits running in billions of rupees every year.  Both provincial and federal government also earn a great amount in form of taxes from these mines but they never pay heed to the plight of those working in unsafe conditions in those 'death traps'. Since there is no mobile service available in the mountainous areas where miners work, so it becomes difficult for the miners to inform the authorities about the incidents in time.