Since I am banned for Pakistan Affairs, I can not post this in that forum.
This seems to be begining of separation of Baluchistan from Pakistan. Same kind of incidences happened 40 years ago when East Pakistan brokeup away from Quaid’s Pakistan.
**Six killed in ‘ethnic attack’ in Quetta **
QUETTA: Police say gunmen have killed six workers in southwestern Pakistan in the second apparent ethnic-based attack of the day.
Senior police official Hamid Shakeel says gunmen stormed a home in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province, and killed six workers who were painting it. Three others were wounded. All the victims were from Punjab province in Pakistan’s east.
Earlier Saturday, gunmen singled out non-ethnic Baloch passengers traveling on a bus in Aab-e-Ghum, a town about 50 kilometers away, killing 10 and wounding five.
The attack is sure to add to ethnic tensions in Balochistan, where a nationalist movement led by armed ethnic Baluch groups has long sought greater provincial autonomy from the central government. – AP
**Gunmen attack bus, kill 10 near Quetta **
QUETTA: Gunmen attacked a passenger bus and shot dead at least 10 people in insurgency-hit southwest Pakistan, officials said on Saturday.
The incident took place in Aab-e-Gum area, 75 kilometres southeast of Quetta, the capital of oil and gas rich Balochistan province, on Friday night.
“A group of 30-35 gunmen stopped the bus in Aab-e-Gum area, off-loaded passengers at gunpoint and shot dead 10 of them,” top provincial home department official Akbar Hussain Durrani told AFP.
He said the bus was travelling to Quetta from the eastern city of Lahore and all those killed in the attack were Punjabi-speaking people.
A senior local official in Aab-e-Gum area, Ismail Kurd, also confirmed the incident and casualties.
No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack. – AFP