The provincial police chief for Balochistan told journalists that most of those who died were police officers, 21 of them have been identified, they included his colleague, the head of the police operations for the city of Quetta.
This is an operation that according to the federal police was designed to stop terrorist preparation and obtain information on possible recruitment of Brazilians to commit extremist acts within the country.
But this time around there has been unusually swift action against the police officer involved where about many feel because the mobilephone footage that exists in the incident.
A deputy permanent representative of China to the United Nations has called on the U.N. Police to improve operations and capacity building to support peacekeeping operations.
Senior European Union officials have warned Turkey, a candidate for membership, that police action against opposition media outlets went against European values.