QUETTA: Three security personnel were critically wounded in landmine explosions on Wednesday. Sher Dil and Manzoor stepped over a landmine near Sui, during routine patrolling of the area, triggering a blast. The two were rushed to a hospital. Another trooper was injured in a similar explosion in Sibbi. Security forces defused landmines in Ouch and Khuzdar. Meanwhile, security forces recovered 2,000 handmade bombs, bullets and Kalashnikovs near Bhomboore. online
Why are there so many bombs, rockets and other weapons in Pakistan occupied by the civilian body when only the military should possess them? Where do they come from? Who pays for all this hardware?
QUETTA: Tribal insurgents early on Sunday blew up a gas pipeline in Balochistan, disrupting supplies to the area, officials said.
The pre-dawn blast damaged the main pipeline in the Loti gas field, 450 kilometres southeast of Quetta, a gas company official said. Requesting anonymity, he said that the attack affected gas supplies to local consumers. He blamed rebels, who are fighting for greater autonomy and a share of profits from the region’s natural resources.
Sunday’s attack was the fourth on gas pipelines in the province this month. afp
Bugti are basically animals sent to slaughter at the behest of Nawab Bugti... He supplies them and then points them in the right diirection, and tells them to bite.
Sad how these Balochi are instigated by their Nawab. It them, their nawab and then god himself...
what was sad for you khehkshan the lebanese infastructure bombing, the palestinian strangulation, or attempts to stop this israelli terrorist aggression?
Nawab Bugti wants to make a fast buck and thinks pakistan is going to just hand him a quarter of the country. lock him up, lock his tribe up and improve education in the area
Militants blow up gas pipeline in Dera Murad Jamali
QUETTA: Suspected tribal militants blew up a gas pipeline in Dera Murad Jamali on Wednesday, disrupting the supply of gas to the Uch Power Plant till Wednesday afternoon.
Sources told Daily Times that unidentified people had blown up a 24-inch diameter gas pipeline, which supplied gas to the Uch Power Plant…
Two troopers killed in gunbattle with Marris, 12 injured in blasts
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QUETTA: Two troopers died and three were critically wounded in a gun battle between Baloch militants and security forces on Thursday, while elsewhere in the provincial capital 12 civilians were injured in bomb blasts.
QUETTA: The supply of electricity to Marri tribal area of Kohlu and Mohawand was suspended till Saturday afternoon after suspected tribal militants blew up two pylons of a main power transmission line in Balochistan. Quetta Electric Supply Company (QESCO) sources said that unidentified people had blown up two towers of the 33-KV Barkhan-Kohlu transmission line. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
Agencies add: Unidentified people blew up a gas pipeline of the Loti Gas Field in Sui, suspending the supply of gas to the power plant. The local administration has registered cases against the unidentified saboteurs. Repair work on the gas pipeline had not started when this report was filed.
In another incident on Saturday, two security personnel were injured when security forces and armed men clashed in Kahan area of Kharmord. The attackers managed to escape…
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QUETTA: A bomb damaged a gas pipeline in Balochistan on Sunday, cutting supplies to thousands of homes but causing no injuries.
The blast damaged less than a metre of the 45-centimetre-wide pipeline in the mountainous area of Lakpass, south of Quetta, said area police official Hamid Shakil. No one was reported hurt, but the blast disrupted gas supplies to about 2,000 homes and businesses in Mastung and Kalat districts, Shakil said.
There was no claim of responsibility, but authorities have blamed rebel Baloch tribesmen for similar attacks in the past on pipelines, gas fields, railroads and security forces in Balochistan. Sunday’s explosion came amid widespread anger in the province over the August 26 killing of prominent tribal chief, Nawab Akbar Bugti. ap
QUETTA: Insurgents on Monday blew up a gas pipeline in Balochistan, suspending supply to a major gas plant, officials said.
The pipeline connects a well to the main gas plant in Sui, said a security official. On Sunday, rebels detonated a bomb that blew up another pipeline and disrupted the supply of gas to thousands of homes in Mastung and Qalat. In another incident on Monday, three people from the Massori tribe were killed and seven were injured in an ambush.
Meanwhile, Riots erupted in Turbat on Monday after the arrest of a local newspaper’s editor. Hundreds of people protested against the arrest of Chamag Editor Rafiq Ajiz, and tried to set public property on fire. agencies
Four die in landmine blast and ambush in Balochistan
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QUETTA: A member of the Bugti tribe was killed in a landmine blast in the Sangsila locality of Dera Bugti on Tuesday, while three others from a Bugti sub-tribe were killed in an ambush in Naseerabad district on Monday.
