Posted on 02/03/2005 10:49:16 PM PST by Cruising Speed
Six blasts rock Baluchistan, soldier hurt: QUETTA, Feb 03:
Baluchistan was rocked by six bomb and landmine blasts targeting key transport, communications and power facilities, causing widespread damage and blowing off a soldier's foot.
Five of the explosions were in Baluchistan, which is in the throes of an intensifying rebellion by tribesmen demanding a bigger share of the region's natural resources.
Two railway lines were ripped up in the attacks, including the main line between Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan, and Zahidan in neighbouring Iran. The track was blown up at Mustung, a small town some 56 kilometers (34 miles) southeast of Quetta, a railway control room official told AFP on condition of anonymity. Officials were inspecting the damage, he added
Hours earlier a powerful bomb ripped through the wall of a police station in the same town without causing any injuries, local police chief Salim Lehri said. In the other rail blast a passenger train escaped a possible accident when a pilot engine found part of the track missing at Dera Ghazi Khan. A four-feet stretch had been blown up by a bomb leaving a two-feet deep crater and halting the Chiltan express travelling from Quetta to the northern city of Rawalpindi, railway police said.
In Kohlu, militants blew up two microwave telephone masts, officials said. As security personnel escorted telephone officials to repair the damage they were hit by a landmine blast, leaving a low-ranking soldier seriously injured, an official of the paramilitary Frontier Corps official in Quetta confirmed. Security sources said the injured man lost his foot in the blast.
Meanwhile, multiple blasts destroyed an electricity transmission line tower in Naushki area, Gibreel Khan, the spokesman of Quetta Electric Supply Company told AFP. He said that the repair work on the transmission line between Naushki and Chaghi would be started soon. No one claimed responsibility for any of today's attacks, but suspicion immediately fell on nationalist tribesmen who are waging an increasingly bloody campaign in Baluchistan. A shadowy group called the Baluchistan Liberation Army has said it carried out a number of the previous attacks in the province, including rocket strikes on Pakistan's largest gas field at Sui that left eight people dead. (AFP) (Updated @ 23:25 PST)
Baluchiwhat?
As noted in the article, it is a tribal area in Pakistan near Iran. Just want to add that DAWN is a good source of news but I hardly ever see their articles posted here. DAWN is pretty objective most of the time although they often call the Kashmiri terrorists 'freedom fighters'.
BTTT
If they do have him, I would think he is not near the border but buried deep in the heart of Tehran where they can keep a very, very close eye on him.
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