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January 1
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A truck loaded with coal was on
its way to Loralai when it struck a landmine in Chamalang area,
killing the driver and injuring another person.
A blast occurred in the Bakhtairabad
area after a vehicle of the Frontier Corps hit a landmine, injuring
three soldiers.
Rockets were fired on a security
forces’ checkpoint in Kohlu district’s Kahan area.
Power supply was suspended in
several areas of Hub after a pylon of a high-power transmission
line was blown up.
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January 3
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Two suspected terrorists were
killed in an exchange of fire with the security forces (SFs) in
the Kan-Mehtarzai area of Muslim Bagh, some 160km north of provincial
capital Quetta. Sources said the encounter ensued after the SF
personnel signaled a vehicle going towards Dera Ismail Khan in
the NWFP to stop, but the suspects attempted to speed away. "They
were religious extremists," an unnamed security official said,
adding that they might be suicide bombers.
Five people were wounded in a
bomb attack on a bus stop in the industrial town of Hub. According
to police, a bicycle fitted with explosives and parked at the
bus stop on the main Quetta-Karachi national highway exploded
when a police van reached the location.
Three policemen and their driver
were injured when their vehicle hit a remote-controlled explosive
device near the Rawalpindi Interchange of the Indus Highway in
Kohat.
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January 4
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Two personnel of the Sindh Rangers
were injured when a landmine exploded in the Fat Feeder area of
Sui. According to sources, the landmine was planted to blow up
a vehicle of the Rangers, but it exploded after the vehicle had
passed.
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January 5
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One Frontier Corps soldier died
and two other sustained injuries when unidentified miscreants
ambushed them in the Spinny Road area of Quetta, capital of Balochistan.
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January 7
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Raz Mohammad and Tehlel Khan,
employed at a coal mine in the Bolan district, were killed and
five persons wounded when one of the men stepped on a landmine
as they were returning home.
Six security force personnel were
injured in a landmine explosion in Sibi district when their vehicle
hit a landmine. No group has claimed responsibility for either
of the blasts.
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January 9
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One person was killed and two
others sustained injuries in a landmine explosion in the coalmining
area of Marget near Mach.
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January 10
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Six people were injured after
they tried to prevent an attack on a barber’s shop in the Essa
Nagri area of Quetta, capital of Balochistan province. According
to police, a group of people tried to capture the assailant but
he attacked with a hand-grenade and opened fire, injuring six
of them. The man later escaped in the ensuing confusion.
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January 13
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Two persons were injured when
an unidentified man lobbed a grenade into a bakery in Mastung.
Insurgents blew up a railway tack
linking the provincial capital Quetta with Iran.
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January 14
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A bomb blast occurred in the industrial
town of Hub. However, no loss of life or injuries was reported.
The Balochistan Inspector General
of Police, Saud Gohar, said that security agencies have arrested
three suspected terrorists in Nushki for their alleged involvement
in the killing of security force personnel and in subversive activities.
He said during a press conference in the provincial capital Quetta
that terrorism and subversive activities increased in Balochistan
by 19 per cent during 2007. About 186 people were killed and 445
injured in 540 incidents of terrorism and sabotage. He said that
police had recovered 1,855 kilograms of drugs, over 1,000 weapons
and 18 kilograms of explosives during the year.
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January 16
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A vehicle of the security forces
was damaged in a landmine explosion in the Sangsilla area of the
Dera Bugti district. However, no loss of life or injuries was
reported.
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January 18
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Two Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) militants
escaped from a sub-jail located inside the headquarters of the
Anti-Terrorist Force (ATF) in the Quetta cantonment area. Usman
Saifullah and Shafiqur Rehman were tried by an Anti-Terrorism
Court in several cases of sectarian killings. The court had sentenced
Usman to death for sectarian attacks and Shafiq to life imprisonment
in another case. Police said Usman had masterminded numerous sectarian
killings and attacks on imambargah (congregation hall for
Shia rituals) in Quetta and he had been arrested from Karachi
in June 2006. Shafiq was arrested from Mastung in Balochistan
in 2007. After the escape, police detained 13 jail and ATF personnel
who had been on duty.
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January 20
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Three oil tankers and a container
carrying fuel and goods for the allied forces in southern Afghanistan
were blown up in the border town of Chaman and the Sranan area
of Qila Abdullah district. Police managed to save another oil
tanker, defusing a bomb strapped to it.
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January 21
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A soldier was killed and six others
sustained injuries in two landmine explosions in the Pat Denari
area and Pir Koh on the Sindh-Balochistan border. A convoy of
the Sindh Rangers was passing through Pat Denari when one of the
mines exploded, injuring three soldiers. The second mine exploded
near the Pir Koh gas field in which a Frontier Corps (FC) vehicle
was destroyed. Four FC personnel were injured in the incident.
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January 25
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A landmine blast at Dera Bugti
killed a trooper and injured two others. Police said a vehicle
of the security forces could have hit the landmine during patrolling.
One trooper, Shafi Muhammad, was killed and two others, Shahid
and Muhammad, were injured.
A gas pipeline was blown up by
unidentified persons in Sui, disrupting gas supply to parts of
the Punjab and Sindh. Four suspects were arrested after the explosion
and shifted them to an unknown place for interrogation.
In Baloch Colony, some unidentified
miscreants blew up the main gas pipeline, which caused the termination
of gas supply to Punjab and Sindh. The explosion damaged three
feet of the pipeline.
A blast in Hub destroyed an electricity
pylon causing power outage in the city and surrounding areas.
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January 29
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A child was killed while two security
force personnel and a civilian were wounded on when landmines
exploded in the Pirkoh and Kahan areas of Dera Bugti and Kohlu
districts.
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January 30
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Insurgents blew up four power
pylons due to which supply of electricity to Sui and Dera Bugti
has been suspended. According to The Post, unidentified miscreants
blew up a high transmission line of 33 KV in the area of Mazar
Goth.
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January 31
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Six people sustained injuries
when a bomb strapped to a bicycle exploded in Quetta, capital
of Balochistan. The cycle was parked outside the offices of the
District Coordination Office and Anti-Terrorist Court on the Anscomb
Road.
Two power pylons were blown up
in the Maiwant area of Kohlu district, suspending power supply
to the adjoining areas.
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February 3
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A suspected militant was killed
by the troops in an operation in the Khal Gari area of Sui Tehsil
(administrative unit) in the Dera Bugti district. The Security
Forces (SFs) were fired upon when they launched the operation
on a tip-off about the presence of militants and their hideouts
in the area. "An armed man was killed in the exchange of
fire," said an unnamed senior official. The SFs neutralized
the hideout and recovered a large quantity of arms and ammunition,
including rocket-launchers, rockets, anti-aircraft guns and thousands
of bullets.
An assistant sub-inspector and
a constable were injured when armed men opened fire on a police
vehicle when it was passing through the Joint Road late. "Yes,
two police personnel received bullet injuries in the firing,"
Rehmatullah Niazi, the DIG Operations, said, adding that some
bullets fired also hit the car of a journalist.
A huge pylon of the high power
transmission line near Hub was blown up, suspending electricity
supply to a vast area. According to sources, the explosive device
was planted around the 500KV transmission line at the northern
bypass. "Power supply was suspended to the area adjoining
Hub in Sindh province," Abdullah Afridi, SHO Hub police station
said.
Two powerful explosions were reported
from Dera Allahyar.
Armed men kidnapped a driver of
the irrigation department from the Pat Feeder area.
The Frontier Corps also claimed
recovering a large quantity of arms and ammunition from the Gul
Kach area of Zhob, including grenades, mortar bombs, AK-47 rifles
and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.
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February 4
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One person was killed and three
others sustained injuries when the tractor trolley they were aboard
hit a landmine near RD-238 in the Pat Feeder area near Sui.
Two pylons of the 220 KV transmission
line near Dear Allahyar were blown up.
Beebarg Baloch, a spokesman for
the BLA, claimed that the BLA had attacked SFs in Kahan and Siha
Giri area of Kohlu district and that SFs had suffered heavy losses.
He claimed that the BLA was also involved in attacking a police
vehicle in Quetta and blowing up power pylons in Dera Allahyar
and Hub. However, official sources denied that SFs had come under
any attack.
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February 5
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A suspected suicide bomber was
killed in Quetta when the explosives he was carrying detonated
accidentally. The blast, which occurred at Sabzal Road, also injured
two pedestrians.
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February 7
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Three persons were killed and
12 others sustained injuries in a bomb blast that occurred at
a bus stand in the Dera Murad Jamali town. Two people died instantly
and one, Ghanwar Bugti, died in the hospital. Police sources said
Bugti was believed to have been planting the bomb when it exploded.
Meanwhile, the Baloch Republican Army claimed responsibility for
the blast in a telephone call to local journalists.
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February 11
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Six security force (SF) personnel
were injured in an explosion near Dera Bugti. Police sources said
the remote-controlled explosive device had been placed by a road
and it exploded when a vehicle carrying personnel of the Bhombor
Rifles, a wing of the Frontier Corps, was passing. A spokesman
for the Baloch Republican Army claimed responsibility for the
attack.
Security forces captured Taliban
commander Mullah Mansoor Dadullah along with five other Taliban
militants after a gun-battle in the Gowal Ismailzai village of
Qila Saifullah district (near the Afghan border). He is the younger
brother of Taliban commander Mullah Dadullah, who was killed in
a clash with the US-led forces in Afghanistan’s Helmand province
in May 2007. "Mansoor Dadullah is alive, but he is injured
and in the custody of the authorities along with five other Taliban
who too have received injuries," caretaker Interior Minister
Lt-Gen (retd) Hamid Nawaz said.
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February 12
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Eight people, including four journalists,
sustained injuries when a bomb exploded near the election office
of two independent candidates in the Khuzdar district. Deputy
Superintendent of Police Abdul Samad Mengal said the bomb was
planted on the carrier of a bicycle parked near the joint election
office of independent candidates Mir Muhammad Ayub Jattak and
Sardar Muhammad Aslam Bazenjo at Azadi Chowk.
Security force personnel arrested
over 40 suspects during a search operation launched in the some
areas. Beebarg Baloch, a spokesman for the banned Baloch Liberation
Army, meanwhile, claimed that the security forces had launched
a massive operation in the Siah Geri area of Kahan sub-division
of Kohlu district and arrested over 150 people of the Marri tribe.
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February 13
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Two explosions were reported from
the Mastung and Kharan towns. However, no loss of life or injuries
was reported. While an explosive device planted near the District
Coordination Officer’s office in Kharan went off triggering panic
in the area, Police said the second explosive device had been
planted in an open area in Mastung.
A landmine reportedly hit a tractor
trolley in the Feeder area.
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February 14
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Four children and a man were injured
when a bomb exploded in the coalmine town of Mach. According to
police, the bomb was planted near a mosque.
Two explosions were reported from
Nushki. Police said that the explosive devices had been planted
outside the election campaign offices of the Pakistan People’s
Party and Pakistan Muslim League-Q. The blasts damaged a portion
of a wall.
Police seized four AK-47 rifles,
besides five magazines and a hand-grenade from a Hub-bound ambulance
coming from Turbat. "We have arrested five people, including
three women, who were in the ambulance," an unnamed police
officer said.
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February 15
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A boy was killed and three others
sustained injuries when a landmine exploded in the Qadirabad village
of Noshki district. Police sources said the landmine had been
planted near the Hashima Mosque.
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February 17
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Four security force personnel
were killed and another wounded when a landmine exploded in the
Pir Koh gas field area of Dera Bugti district. Sources said that
a landmine planted by militants in Haideri Nallah near Pir Koh
gas field blew up a vehicle carrying Frontier Corps personnel.
A police officer was killed and
eight other people, including an MQM candidate and two police
personnel, were injured in different attacks. According to police
sources, the MQM candidate for NA-259, Abdul Ghani Kasi, was sitting
in his election office when unidentified people riding a motorbike
hurled a hand-grenade which exploded in the office. "The
candidate and three MQM workers received serious injuries,"
said Deputy Inspector General of Police Rehmatullah Niazi.
Four persons, including two police
officers, were injured in Killi Qambrani, in the outskirts of
provincial capital Quetta, when some people attacked the polling
station with a hand-grenade.
Some people lobbed a hand-grenade
on the roof of a government school in Killi Ismail housing a polling
station. Another blast was reported from the Sariab area while
two other polling stations and the office of a union council were
bombed in Mashkey. A bomb exploded near the Turbat Model High
School and explosions were also reported from the Sado-Jhakrani
area of Jaffarabad, Khuzdar, Mach, Kalat, Tump, Awaran and Killi
Jamaldini of Noshki in government buildings housing polling stations.
However, no casualty was reported in these blasts.
Train service between provincial
capital Quetta and rest of the country was suspended after railway
tracks were blown up at two places, near Killi Zehri and Degree
College in Sariab area.
Four electric pylons were blown
up in the Kohlu and Jaffarabad districts causing suspension in
power supply.
Another half a dozen explosions
were reported from different areas damaging polling stations.
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February 19
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In the elections in Balochistan,
the PML-Q won 17 seats out of 44, while the Pakistan People’s
Party won seven seats. Independent candidates won ten seats.
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February 21
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Unidentified assailants shot dead
three traffic policemen in Quetta. Capital City Police Officer
Mohammad Akbar said the officers, Sub-Inspector Abdul Latif and
Constables Bashir and Muhammad Ayub, were performing routine traffic
duty in Killi Ismail when assailants rode up to them on a motorcycle
and opened fire. Bibarg Baloch, a spokesman of the banned Balochistan
Liberation Army, claimed responsibility for the attack.
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February 24
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A gas pipeline was blown up by insurgents in the
Pirkoh area of Dera Bugti district. Police said that the explosive
device had been planted under the 18-inch diameter pipeline.
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February 25
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Three security force personnel
were killed and five others injured when a remote control bomb
hit their vehicle the in Sangsila area of Dera Bugti.
One civilian was killed and two
others were wounded when their motorcycle hit a landmine near
Sui.
Militants blew up a portion of
the 16-inch gas pipeline in the Loti area of Dera Bugti district.
The Baloch Republican Army claimed responsibility for the incident.
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Armed men shot dead two civilians
in the Noshki area. Police sources said Ikram Ahmed and Khadim
Hussain were engaged in repair work in the Noshki district jail
when two armed men riding a motorbike opened fire on them, killing
them on the spot. A spokesman for the Baloch Republican Army has
claimed responsibility for the attack.
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February 29
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Suspected militants triggered
a bomb blast in an open ground at Killi Khezi in the suburb of
Quetta. However, no loss of life or property was reported.
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Five Frontier Corps (FC) personnel
were injured when a landmine exploded in the Dera Bugti district.
According to sources, a vehicle carrying the five FC personnel
to Sui hit the landmine near the Pesh Bogi area.
Four soldiers sustained injuries
when their vehicle hit a landmine in the Barkhan area.
Two pylons of a high power transmission
line were blown up near Dera Allayhyar, suspending power supply
to Shikarpur from the Och power plant in Dera Murad Jamali.
Suspected insurgents damaged a
gas pipeline in Hazargangi in the outskirts of Quetta.
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March 4
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A soldier of the Rangers was killed
and another sustained injuries when their vehicle hit a landmine
on the Sui road near Kashmore late. Reports said that a party
of Rangers was patrolling the road to keep watch over a gas pipeline
laid from Sui to Punjab and Balochistan, when their vehicle hit
a landmine and blew up with huge explosion.
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March 5
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Security forces foiled an attempt
to blow up two bridges linking Dera Bugti with the other areas.
Police sources said that three suspected militants had been arrested
and 40kg of high explosives and two remote-controlled bombs seized
from the area during a search operation.
Staff of the Attock Cement Factory
going in a van to Karachi narrowly escaped an explosion in the
Sakran area of Hub. A bomb planted on a road exploded when the
van was passing through the area.
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March 6
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One soldier was killed and two
others sustained injuries when a military truck struck a landmine
near Dera Bugti. The vehicle was reportedly carrying troops on
a routine patrol when it hit the landmine, local police chief
Najmuddin Tareen said.
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March 7
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Frontier Crops personnel recovered
more than 8,000 rounds of 12.7 mm gun from the Chagai Mountains.
Unidentified miscreants had dumped the ammunition in the mountains
which was to be smuggled to interior Balochistan for terrorist
acts, official sources said.
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March 8
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A bomb blast at a small hotel
in Kohlu, a remote town about 200 kilometres east of Quetta, killed
one person and injured two others.
A powerful blast damaged several
carriages of a goods train going to Ahmedwall from Noshki. The
device was planted on the track and the explosion derailed the
engine and five bogies of the Taftan express, which had been carrying
rice and vegetables.
Five suspected suicide bombers
were arrested after a powerful explosion left four of them injured
in a house in Pashtoonabad in Quetta. "A suicide jacket,
around 3kg of high explosive material, two remote-controlled systems,
four electronic detonators, Jihadi literature and CDs were seized
from the house," said Rehmatullah Niazi, Deputy Inspector
General of Police (Operations). According to police sources, the
explosion occurred in a house in the Usman Qila area. "The
suspects injured in the explosion were preparing a suicide jacket
during which the explosion occurred," Niazi said, adding
that they were planning a suicide attack in Quetta.
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March 10
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A truck of the Frontier Corps
passing through the Eidgah Road was attacked with a hand-grenade.
The grenade exploded after bouncing off the truck, injuring five
people sitting outside a tea stall.
Another explosion in a street
off the busy Orchard Road injured a six-year-old girl.
Two persons were injured when
they stepped over a landmine near Goth Abdul Rehman.
A rocket fired by militants damaged
a portion of the Panjgur airport radar room. The militants managed
to flee after the airport security guards returned fire.
A man claiming to be the spokesman
of the BLA and identifying himself as Beebarg Baloch claimed that
five security force personnel, who were trying to defuse a landmine,
were killed and three others were injured after it was detonated
with a remote control near Kahan.
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March 11
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Troops at the Chaman border seized
arms and ammunition from a car which had crossed over from Afghanistan.
According to Colonel Syed Agha Mohammed Haider, the troops seized
13 rocket shells, four rifles, two pistols and more than 100 machine-gun
rounds. However, he added, no one was arrested and two men in
the car escaped.
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March 11
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Two pylons of a high power transmission
line were blown up, causing suspension of power supply to several
areas of Dera Allahyar. Police sources said that explosive devices
placed near the pylons of 220kv Shaikarpur-Uch power transmission
line blew up.
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March 13
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Power supply to various areas
of the Bolan district was disrupted after four pylons of two high-power
transmission lines were blown up. Officials said some saboteurs
had planted heavy explosives around three pylons of 220 KV and
one pylon of 132 KV of the Sibi-Mach transmission lines.
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March 14
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Five persons were wounded after
an explosive device planted in a bicycle hit the vehicle of a
tribal elder, Wadera Abdul Rehman Bugti, in the Naka Jatoi area
of Dera Murad Jamali in Nasirabad district.
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March 15
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Gunmen riding motorcycles shot
dead a coastguard and injured two others in the industrial town
of Hub. The attack was claimed by the Balochistan Liberation Army.
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March 17
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Two SF personnel, Gul Zaman and
Abdul Rauf, were killed when their road-clearing vehicle hit a
landmine in the Telawagh area of Dera Bugti district.
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March 18
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A man, identified as Ghulam Bahadur,
was killed and two others, Abdul Khalil Bugti and Mir Muhammad
Bugti, were injured when their vehicle hit a landmine in the Sui
area of Dera Bugti district.
The vehicle of a tribal elder,
Wadera Bashir Chanrazi, hit a landmine. The tribal leader, however,
escaped unhurt.
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March 19
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A FC soldier, identified as Zulfiqar
Ali, was killed and another sustained injuries by armed men on
a motorbike on the Manu Jan Road in Quetta.
Security forces foiled an attempt
to blow up a bridge on the Dera Bugti-Sangsilla road. About 55kgs
of high explosives in two bags had been placed under the bridge
but were detected before the saboteurs could detonate them.
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March 23
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A labourer was killed in a landmine
explosion in the Sui area. Police sources said that a landmine
planted by militants on an under-construction road exploded when
labourers commenced work. One of the labourers died on the spot
and two others sustained injuries.
Militants blew up two power pylons
near Kohlu, causing suspension of electricity supply to a vast
area in the Kohlu township.
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March 24
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Unidentified people blew up a
bulldozer and a vehicle of the security forces with explosives
in Quetta. However, no loss of life was reported.
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March 27
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Gas supply was suspended to a
private power plant and seven other industrial units when some
people blew up the main gas pipeline near Kolpur.
A railway track linking the provincial
capital Quetta with Iran was blown up near Dalbandin.
A bomb blast was reported from
Quetta and a grenade exploded in a grid station in Sariab.
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March 28
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Two people were injured when some
people hurled a hand-grenade on a house in the industrial town
of Hub.
Railway traffic between Quetta
and the rest of the country was suspended for several hours after
a portion of the main track was blown up by saboteurs near the
Degree College. However, no loss of life or injuries was reported.
A gas pipeline was blown up on
the outskirts of Quetta causing suspension of gas supply to various
parts of the provincial capital.
Militants attacked check-posts
of security forces in the Dera Bugti and Kahan areas of the Kohlu
district. Official sources said 22 rockets were fired on check-posts
in different areas. However, they said, the rockets landed in
open places areas. Beebargh Baloch, spokesman for the banned Baloch
Liberation Army, claimed responsibility for the attacks.
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March 29
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A policeman, Syed Jamil Shah,
was killed by suspected insurgents in the Saddar Police Station
area of Quetta by unidentified militants.
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March 30
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Militants blew up a stretch of
a 20-inch-diameter gas pipeline in the Sui area of Dera Bugti
district. However, no loss of life or injuries was reported.
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April 1
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Police said that unidentified
gunmen killed one Frontier Corps trooper, Habibur Rehman, and
injured four soldiers after opening fire at them in Quetta. Police
official Raja Fayyaz told AP that the soldiers came under
fire as they travelled through Quetta on a routine patrol. There
was no claim of responsibility.
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April 2
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Two civilians, Lal Khan and Ali
Jan, were killed after their donkey cart hit a landmine in Sohbatpur
in the Nasirabad district.
Two people were killed in a bomb
blast in the Bagar area of Jaffarabad district. The bomb, planted
on a bicycle, exploded, killing a local landlord and his aide.
Two SF personnel were shot dead
by unidentified armed men at the Quetta airport road near Killi
Alamo. The SF personnel were on their routine assignment in plain
clothes when unidentified assailants attacked them. The Balochistan
Liberation Army claimed responsibility for the killing.
Security forces are reported to
have defused a landmine near a bridge in the Sangsela area in
the Dera Bugti district.
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April 3
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At least nine persons were injured
in bomb blasts in Dera Allahyar and Mastung. Three guards of pro-government
tribal elder Wadera Bungal Khan Bugti and three passers-by were
injured when a remote-controlled bomb attached to a parked motorcycle
exploded near Sobatpur Chowk in Dera Allahyar. Bungal Khan, a
former commander of the slain nationalist leader, Nawab Akbar
Bugti, escaped unhurt.
Three linemen of the Quetta Electric
Supply Company were wounded when a landmine exploded in the Pashkram
village of Mastung district. They were repairing a power pylon
which had been blown up on April 2-night.
Supply from the Pir Koh gas field
to the main purification plant in Sui was suspended after a pipeline
was blown up by suspected insurgents in the Dashat Goran area
of Dera Bugti district.
SFs arrested four suspected suicide
bombers from the Naseerabad district. The suspects were arrested
from a passenger bus traveling from Peshawar in the NWFP to Quetta.
SF personnel seized suicide jackets and explosives from the possession
of the alleged bombers.
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April 4
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Four foreigners suspected of having
links with al Qaeda were arrested from the Dera Murad Jamali area
of Nasirabad district. They were reportedly travelling in a Peshawar-bound
bus. "The suspects are Turkish nationals. They were going to Jacobabad
when security officials intercepted the bus on Thursday night,"
sources told Dawn. A large quantity of high explosives, 1,600
rounds of sub-machine gun, a laptop, 10 Jihadi books, CDs, fake
Afghan refugee cards, some dollars and riyals and a digital camera
were seized from their possession.
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April 6
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One militant was killed in an
exchange of fire with the SFs in the Mand area of Turbat. Official
sources said that the militants attacked a convoy passing through
Mand, a small town near the Pakistan-Iran border. Security forces
retaliated, killing one of the militants and injuring another.
"We have seized a huge quantity of arms and ammunition left behind
by the militants," Frontier Corps sources said.
Four SF personnel were injured
when a landmine exploded in the Dera Bugti district.
Balochistan Governor Nawab Zulfiqar
Ali Magsi has said that reconciliation efforts have begun in the
province and the new Government will take steps to make them successful.
He informed the media in provincial capital Quetta that stopping
military operation and restoring peace and normality in the province
would be the new Government’s priority. He said the Government’s
first task should be to initiate dialogue with dissidents because
the use of force over the past five years had not yielded any
positive result.
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April 7
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Two SF personnel were killed and
five others sustained injuries in bomb blasts and armed attacks
on SFs in the Khuzdar, Noshki and Hub areas. Sources said that
a FC vehicle was hit by a remote-controlled bomb near Government
Girls College in Noshki, killing a soldier and injuring two others.
The FC soldiers were on their way to Noshki from their check-post
when they came under attack. Another FC trooper was killed in
Khuzdar when unidentified assailants opened fire at their vehicle
on a bridge in the Khatan area. Unidentified people also attacked
a police van with a bomb at the Hub-Dureji road in the Lasbela
district, injuring three police personnel.
The Balochistan Assembly in its
inaugural session unanimously adopted a resolution calling for
an immediate end to military operations in the province. The resolution
also called for the release of Balochistan National Party (Mengal
faction) chief Akhtar Mengal and all detained political activists,
and the rehabilitation of Balochistan’s internally displaced people.
The House also passed a resolution unanimously calling for an
UN-led investigation into former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s
assassination. A resolution moved by 12 legislators demanded a
judicial inquiry into the murder of former Balochistan governor
Nawab Akbar Bugti and former Member of Provincial Assembly Balaach
Marri. Another related resolution called for an UN-supervised
probe into their murders, and demanded that Bugti’s body be handed
over to his family. The fourth resolution demanded the abolition
of the police and restoration of the Levies Force.
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April 9
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The proscribed BLA rejects the
Government’s offer for talks, saying it was not ready even to
consider it. Talking to Dawn by a satellite phone, the
BLA spokesman Beebarg Baloch said: "We regard the Government’s
offer for talks as its defeat because previously it was not ready
even to recognise the existence of the BLA." He said that three
pillars of what he called genocide of the Baloch nation - establishment,
the army and the Musharraf-led system - were intact and the Government
could not hoodwink the Baloch people. He said that two former
governors of Balochistan, a chief minister, a provincial minister
and a federal minister were on the hit-list of the BLA.
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April 10
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A pipeline supplying gas to the
Pir Koh gas plant was blown up. Police sources said the blast
was caused by an explosive device planted under the 16-inch diameter
pipeline connecting the gas plant with the Pir Koh field. However,
no loss of life or injuries was reported.
Militants fired rockets and gun
shots on a check-post of the security forces in the Arand area
of Sibi. The rockets, however, did not hit the target. Sources
said that armed men damaged some machinery being used for construction
of roads in the area. Claiming responsibility for the attack,
a Baloch Liberation Army spokesman said security forces had suffered
casualties.
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April 12
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Two people were killed in a landmine
explosion in the Pat Feeder area of Dera Bugti district. The victims
were on way to their village on a motorcycle when the bike hit
the landmine when they reached near the Rd-238 area of the Pat
Feeder Canal, killing the two on the spot, police sources said.
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April 13
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A hand-grenade lobbed on children
playing cricket and football in the Ayub Stadium in Quetta, caused
injuries to three boys.
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April 14
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A man was killed and four others
sustained injuries in a landmine explosion in the Mastung district.
According to police sources, employees of the Water and Power
Development Authority were repairing a damaged power pylon in
the Pashkaram area of Mastung when one of them stepped over a
landmine.
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April 15
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Two FC personnel, Saifur Rehman
and Saifitullah, were shot dead in Quetta.
One person was killed and three
others sustained injuries when a landmine exploded in the Patokh
area of Dera Bugti district.
Just a few yards away, another
man was killed when the camel he was riding stepped on a landmine.
Armed people fired rockets on
some check-posts of the security forces in Dera Bugti. However,
no loss of life was reported.
A spokesman for the BLA, Beebargh
Baloch, claimed responsibility for the killing of FC personnel
in Quetta. He also said that the BLA was behind landmine explosions
in Mastung and Khuzdar. He accused the security forces of arresting
many innocent people during search operations in the Seiah Koh
area of Marri and Dera Bugti.
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April 17
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Unidentified armed men killed
a police constable and injured two others in Quetta. Constable
Amin Atif was shot dead by unidentified persons on the city’s
Joint Road while another policeman, Munir Ahmed, and a civilian,
Abdul Sattar, were injured in the incident.
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April 18
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Two security force personnel were
killed and another sustained injuries in a landmine explosion
in the Dera Bugti district. A paramilitary force vehicle was on
routine patrol in the Thoba Nothani locality of the district when
it hit a landmine.
An explosion near the building
of the Balochistan Intermediate and Secondary Education Board
in the provincial capital Quetta damaged the windowpanes of the
adjacent buildings without causing any causality.
The banned BLA claimed responsibility
for the killing of a policeman in Quetta on April 17, and warned
that it would carry out more such attacks in future. Attacks by
the BLA have reportedly intensified since the new government took
over, despite an offer by Chief Minister Nawab Muhammad Aslam
Raisani to resolve differences through dialogue. The BLA has rejected
the offer.
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April 20
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Three security force personnel
were killed and a civilian was injured in the Hub area. Police
sources said two armed men on a motorcycle opened fire on a FC
vehicle near the Gadani bus stop. "Two soldiers died and
another succumbed to injuries in hospital," police said.
The driver of a bus which was passing through the area at the
time of the firing was injured.
A FC trooper was killed and another
sustained injuries when a landmine exploded in the Sangsella area
of Dera Bugti district.
A check-post of the security forces
was attacked in the Kahan area of Kohlu district. However, the
rockets did not hit the post.
Suspected insurgents blew an 18-inch
diameter gas pipeline near the Loti area suspending gas supply
to the plant in Sui. This gas pipeline was laid between Pirkoh
and Sui and was one of the major lines in the area. The same pipeline
was reportedly blown up three days back in the same area, sources
said.
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April 21
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The Balochistan Government withdrew
all cases, including those of sedition, against detained former
Balochistan Chief Minister Sardar Akhtar Mengal, but Mengal’s
Balochistan National Party (BNP-Mengal) rejected the move, terming
it a "cosmetic measure taken by a powerless provincial government."
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April 22
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The Pro Vice-Chancellor of the
Balochistan University, Dr. Safdar Kiyani, was shot dead by insurgents
in Quetta. According to sources, two people on a motorbike opened
fire on Dr. Kiyani when he came out of his house in the Green
Town area on Sariab road for an evening walk. The BLA has claimed
responsibility for the murder. "He had been working for intelligence
agencies and we had already warned him," the BLA spokesman Beebargh
Baloch told reporters from an unspecified location.
Two soldiers of the Frontier Corps
were injured when their vehicle hit a landmine in the Doli Wad
area of Kohlu district.
Three soldiers were wounded in
three landmine blasts in the Lehri, Sangsella and Karmo Wad areas
of Dera Bugti and Kohlu districts.
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April 26
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Two people were injured when a
bomb exploded under a tractor trolley in the Pat Feeder area of
the Dera Bugti district.
The offices of an intelligence
agency and the executive district officer of the public health
department were damaged in a bomb explosion in the Dear Bugti
town.
Militants blew up a gas pipeline
in the Sui area near Jaffarabad, suspending the gas supply to
various districts in Punjab province. The banned Baloch Republican
Army claimed responsibility for the incident.
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April 27
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Two gas pipelines were blown up,
suspending supplies to several districts in the Punjab province.
A main gas pipeline transporting natural gas from the Sui plant
in Dera Bugti district and a pylon supplying power to the Attock
Cement Factory were damaged, said Sui gas spokesman Muhammad Inayatullah.
However, no loss of life no injuries was reported. The Baloch
Republican Army claimed responsibility for both the explosions.
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April 28
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The railway link between provincial
capital Quetta and the rest of Pakistan was cut off after the
main track was blown up by insurgents in the Sariab area. It was
the second incident of the blowing up of railway track in 24 hours.
According to sources, a four-foot portion of track was blown up
by some people in the Dashat area, some 30km off Quetta, at 2am.
The building of the Kalat post
office was damaged when a bomb exploded near it.
Beebargh Baloch, spokesman for
the banned Baloch Liberation Army, claimed responsibility for
blowing up the track and the blast in Kalat.
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April 29
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Two Military Intelligence (MI)
personnel were killed in Khuzdar. A police official said that
Mohammad Yaqoob Lashari and Abdul Hameed were going to a hotel
when unidentified militants on a motorcycle opened fire on them
and sped away. The MI personnel reportedly died on the spot. Police
subsequently raided several places, including hostels of the Khuzdar
Degree College and Engineering University, and detained about
30 suspects for questioning.
Suspected militants killed a police
constable, Mubarak Khan, at a check-post in the Mangochar area
of Kalat. The Baloch Liberation Army’s spokesman Beebargh Baloch
claimed responsibility for killing the two MI personnel in Khuzdar
and the policeman in Kalat.
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May 1
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A policeman, Jumma Khan, was shot
dead by the insurgents in Quetta. The Baloch Liberation Army claimed
responsibility for the attack.
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May 2
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One person was killed and nine
others, including eight security force personnel, were injured
in incidents of hand-grenade attack and firing. Police said unidentified
people opened fire at a sweet mart in the Killi Kalalo area of
Sariab, killing one person and injuring another. Sources said
unidentified people attacked a party of the Balochistan Constabulary
with a hand-grenade on the Sabzal road, injuring seven soldiers.
In another incident, armed people injured one Frontier Corps personnel.
Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza
Gilani said that the military operations in Balochistan have been
stopped. Addressing the Balochistan cabinet in the provincial
capital Quetta, the Prime Minister asked the federal and provincial
Governments to withdraw all cases registered against former Chief
Minister Sardar Akhtar Mengal so that he could be released. "I
asked the military to stop operation in Balochistan until I am
briefed by the new provincial Government on the ground realities
in the province," he said. "It has been decided that
no army action will be carried out in the province until a strategy
is formulated in consultation with representatives of the provincial
Government to deal with the issue of law and order in the province,"
he stated. The Prime Minister also reportedly ordered the provincial
Governments to use all available resources to trace the ‘missing
people’ of Balochistan and other provinces.
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May 3
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Three bomb blasts were reported
from Quetta. Police said two explosions occurred in the early
hours at two nearby streets in the Huda area. The bombs had been
planted in dustbins close to houses at the Sheikh Omar road and
the Ahmed Shah Street. Another explosion occurred in the afternoon
close to the house of one Nizamuddin Kakar in the Balochi Street
area. However, no one was injured in the explosions.
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May 4
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Two suspected militants, Rustam
Bugti and Abdul Rehman Bugti, were killed and four others sustained
injuries in an encounter with the security forces in the Sangsilla
area of Dera Bugti district. Sources said the encounter occurred
when some militants attacked the Jagani check-post.
The federal Government has decided
to withdraw the Frontier Corps (FC) from Gwadar and Quetta and
hand over the responsibility of managing the law and order to
police in the two cities. APP reported that FC sources
said more than 600 FC troops had been withdrawn from 28 check-posts
in the provincial capital Quetta, adding that about the same number
of troops had also been recalled from the Gwadar district.
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