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Balochistan witnesses more then a dozen insurgent attacks in 24 hours
Kohlu, Mand, Tump Mach, Quetta and rest of Balochistan under a new wave of attacks. More then a dozen army, paramilitary and government installations come under bomb,
grenade and rocket attacks in last 24 hours.
According to details Baloch insurgents attacked and destroyed several Frontier Corps FC posts in Kohlu, Mand and Tump. A FC post in Mand area of Hastakan was attacked at 7:30 pm on Saturday with heavy automatic fire, rockets propelled grenades. The FC post was completely destroyed and several casualties were reported.
In another incidence at 8:00pm two cyclists hurled a hand grenade at a military truck, which exploded, and badly damaging it. Mean while four rockets fired at a FC check post, hitting and damaging it but exact details of damage and casualties not known due to blackout of information by the FC authorities.
Mean while in another part of Balochistan in Kohlu area, Baloch insurgents fired eight rockets at a FC post, at least three of which had a direct hit causing panic and casualties amongst FC personnel.
Several other bomb and grenade attacks have been reported from Quetta, Mach, Sindh-Balochistan border area. 29.5.05
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Bomb blast rocks Quetta and Mach cities
Two bomb explosions were heard in provincial capital Quetta and a bomb exploded in Mach city train station some 45 km from Quetta on Saturday 28 May.
According sources, some unknown persons hurled a hand grenade on Ghelani road during late hours of the evening resulting in damage to nearby houses. In another incidence a loud explosion was heard but exact location could not be determined, when inquired from the police, they decline to comment. It is usually when sensitive government or army installations are hit such reaction and denial is shown.
Mean while a powerful device exploded near Mach city train station, extensively damaging the station but no casualty has been reported. It is worth mentioning that these explosions were on the eve of the atom bomb test in Chaghai Balochistan in 1998.
Baloch Liberation Army BLA claimed responsibility for the attacks.
29.5.05 |
Four successive bomb explosions in Quetta
Four powerful
explosions shook Quetta, the blasts occurred near Saryaib police
station, government offices and telephone exchange on Friday to Saturday
night.
According to details four powerful explosive devices detonated consecutive on Saryaib road Quetta. First explosion happened near B&R government department office building two more explosions near Quetta central telephone exchange offices and forth a very powerful explosion happened near Saryaib road police station. Bomb blasts resulted in severe damage to government offices, telephone exchange and the police station.
Baloch Liberation Army BLA claimed responsibility for the bomb blasts and said they were to remind the Punjabi tyrants that Baloch did not forget the grave unjust to our motherland Balochistan by testing a nuclear device in Chaghai. 28.5.05 |
Grenade attack on SSP’s residence in Quetta
A hand grenade explosion in the house senior superintendent police SSP in Quetta.
According to sources, some unknown persons hurled a hand grenade in the house Senior Superintendent Police SSP Sohaib Akthar. The official house is located on airport road where the incidence occurred. The grenade exploded with a loud bang causing damage to the front of the house and the main gate.
At the time of the attack no one was home. Mr Sohaib Akthar is currently posted as SSP national highways. Police have started investigations but no arrests have been made.
23.5.05 |
Powerful bomb explosion rocks Quetta
Quetta the capital of Balochistan was rocked when a powerful went off on Zargoon road on Friday night.
According to sources, a powerful bomb went off on Zargoon road in Quetta at 12pm on Friday night. The blast was so powerful that the explosion was heard from several miles.
Due to the blast a nearby building suffered damage and windowpanes of several buildings were shattered but no casualties were reported. Police cordoned off the area and started investigations.
Baloch Liberation Army BLA claimed responsibility for the blast. 21.5.05 |
Police patrol ambushed in Nasirabad two killed
Some unknown persons ambushed a police patrol with automatic weapons killing two including the driver.
According to sources, some unknown persons ambushed a police patrol and opened automatic fire, the driver Kadir Bux and constable Mohd Ayoub were killed on the spot. The incidence took place at Tamboo district Nasirabad.
The attackers managed to escape unharmed. Police have registered cases against unknown persons and started investigations but no arrests have made so far. 20.5.05 |
Bomb blasts in Turbat
A powerful bomb went off in front of Turbat police station and army recruitment center.
According to sources a powerful bomb went off in front of Turbat police station and army recruitment center at 8:45pm Tuesday evening.
Police station, army recruitment center and residence of Major Abid in the premises of the recruitment center were badly damaged and windowpanes of nearby buildings shattered but no casualty have been reported.
Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) claimed responsibility for the attack. 18.5.05 |
Explosion
in Noshki
A bomb went off in Noshki bazaar causing damage to property but no loss of life was reported.
According to sources, Baloch freedom fighters planted a powerful bomb, which went off in Noshki main bazaar causing damage to near government buildings but no casualty was reported.
BLA Baloch Liberation Army claimed responsibility for the blast. 18.5.05 |
Four blasts rock Gwadar
Four powerful explosions in Gwadar rocked the newly-constructed port area on Saturday
night. However, no loss of life was reported.
According to sources, four explosions occurred at brief intervals in the coastal town of Gwadar. The first blast occurred near the General Post Office, smashing its windowpanes as well as those of nearby government buildings.
The second device, planted by Baloch insurgents near the Gwadar port area, went off with a big bang, 10 minutes later, another explosion was heard in the same area.
The fourth device exploded near the Gwadar Fish Harbour at around 11.30pm. However, no person was killed or injured.
Baloch Liberation Front claimed responsibility for the attacks. 15.5.05 |
Blast at Quetta court building
A powerful explosive device went off in the premises of the district court building here on Friday night but caused no loss of life.
Baloch insurgents threw a explosive device in the district court building which fell in an open space and exploded. The blast smashed windowpanes of some offices in the building, the police added. 14.5.05 |
Six bombs went off in
Balochistan
Six explosions were reported around the border area between Sindh and Balochistan on Monday.
There were three powerful explosions in Gwadar but no casualties were reported. Official sources said that two bombs exploded near a police station, in a span of ten minutes. A third bomb exploded near a government official’s home.
A powerful explosion also occurred in Quetta on Monday night. Police officials said that a bomb was set off at Arbab Barkat Ali Road. No casualties were reported. House windows around the blast site shattered and it also caused a crater in the road.
Meanwhile, AFP reported that two bomb blasts occurred near Kashmore Colony railway station and damaged a rail track but caused no casualties, said senior railway police officer Shafi Muhammad Mughal.
The bombs exploded on the rail line near the station, on the border with Balochistan, they damaged a portion of the track. No train was passing on the track when the blasts occurred, he said.
Baloch Liberation Army claimed responsibility for the attacks. 10.5.05 |
Two FC men injured in Naseerabad explosion
A blast injured two militiamen in the Bakhtairabad area of Nasirabad district while insurgents fired rockets damaging two pylons in Bolan Mountains on Friday. Levy sources in Bakhtairabad tehsil confirmed that two patrol personnel of the Frontier Corps, Faridullah and Umar Ali, were wounded when a detonator planted underground blasted.
In the other incident in Bolan area, some 90 Kms southeast of here, saboteurs targeted two electricity towers in the early hours of Friday. A Qesco spokesman said terrorists had damaged two electricity towers of 132 kV between Pirghaib and Bibinani on the Quetta-Sibi transmission line. However, the attack failed to disrupt the normal power supply.
He acknowledged that the replacement of the pylons would cause suspension of power supply and the shortage would be managed through load shedding.
Baloch Liberation army BLA claimed responsibility for all the attacks 7.5.05 |
Railway track in
and two grid Station blown up
A portion of the main railway track linking Quetta with the rest of the country was blown up near the Domboli area of Nasirabad district early on Sunday morning seriously affecting the rail traffic. Also on Sunday, rockets were fired at installations of the Quetta Electric Supply Company in Pasni and Mach.
According to Pakistan Railways authorities Baloch insurgents had planted a powerful bomb on the railway track near Domboli, about 250 Km southeast of Quetta. It went off at around 2.50 am blowing up a portion of the railway. All Quetta-bound passenger and goods trains were stopped at the Jacobabad station. It took several hours to replace the damaged track and service on the main line was restored.
Three rockets were fired at the Grid Station in Mach. Two of the rockets hit the grid station and exploded, while the third hit the main gate of the grid station, smashing window-panes and doors. A man passing was hit by splinters.
A Grid Station in the area of Pasni was damaged when some people opened automatic fired with heavy weapons on the plant. The Grid Station sustained serious damage and electric supply to Pasni city was disconnected. BLA Baloch Liberation Army claimed responsibility for the attack. 2.5.05 |
Blast damages railway track near
Rahim
Yar Khan
The Karachi-bound Shah Rukn-i-Alam Express escaped a disaster when a bomb exploded on the railway track near the Sadiq Abad regulator, two
kilometers off the Sadiq Abad railway station, on Saturday. Several feet of the track safety plates and nuts were destroyed in the blast that took place at about 12:30pm.
Police sources claimed that the bomb had been planted to blow up the 13-down Shah Rukn-i-Alam Express which was scheduled to pass from the site at 12:45pm. The bomb, went off 15 minutes ahead of it.
Rahim Yar Khan DPO Syed Ibn-i-Hussain and the assistant engineer of the Khanpur railway region, along with technical staff and officials of the bomb disposal squad, rushed to the scene.
The Sadiq Abad police have registered a case against unidentified people. Police said the incident was an act of sabotage. “The repair work was under way and the railway traffic would be restored shortly” assistant engineer of the Khanpur railway region said. 1.5.05 |
Two FC soldiers killed and several injured in a rocket attack in Kohlu
Baloch insurgents fired a dozen rockets at least five rockets hit a paramilitary base on Friday, killing two and injuring several FC soldiers in a pre-dawn assault in the Kohlu area of the restive province Balochistan.
According to details a well-equipped group of Baloch freedom fighters attacked a Frontier Corps camp in the early hours of Friday morning. They fired a dozen rockets and opened automatic fire on the camp when most of the FC personnel were asleep. Due to the sudden attack there was a panic in the FC camp. 29.4.05 |
Land mine blast kills three injures one soldier
near Kahan
A team of Frontier Corps (paramilitary soldier) patrolling Kahan-Kohlu road when one of them stepped on a land mine, three FC personnel were killed and one seriously injured in the Marri area of Balochistan.
The incident happened Wednesday morning when a group of soldiers was walking in the area of Kahan, 400 kilometers (240 miles) east of Quetta, capital of southwestern Balochistan province.
Baloch insurgents had planted the mine, the Baloch insurgency is going on in Balochistan since several decades and since last few years it has intensified and has specifically targeted state interests, army, paramilitary and other strategic targets. 27.4.05 |
Four injured, railway track damaged in blasts
Four people, three of them policemen, were injured and parts of a railway track was damaged in two bomb blasts in the Jaffarabad district on Tuesday.
According to official sources, a policemen patrol spotted an explosive device near the railway line in Dera Allahyar behind the office of the district police officer, the sources said. The police removed the bomb and a head constable was trying to defuse it when it exploded, injuring him and three other people.
The injured - Sub-Inspector Abdul Ghani, Head Constable Bakhsh Ali, the DPO's gunman Allah Rakha and an unidentified driver of the agriculture department - were taken to the Dera Allahyar Civil Hospital.
In the second incident, a bomb planted on railway track near the Subatput station went off at about 10:30pm.
“The bomb exploded after Chiltan Express had
just passed the railway track and Quetta Express was a few kilometres
away,” a local journalist said. The main railway track was damaged in the bomb blast.
All the traffic was disrupted as all trains were stopped till the repair work could be completed. Sources said that railway engineers and other staff had started the repair work and it was believed that the traffic would resume in
the next 24 hours. 27.4.05 |
Two blasts blow up railway track
near Sindh-Balochistan border
Two powerful bomb blasts blew away a three-foot portion of the railway track between Tangwani and Bijarani railway stations within the limits of Dera Sarki police station on the Sindh-Balochistan border late on Sunday.
A pilot engine coming on the down track at the time of the blast narrowly escaped the disaster. Immediately, afterwards, the authorities stopped all the up and down trains running on the Quetta-Kashmore Dera Ghazi Khan section at various railway stations.
The bombs were planted under the track and went off simultaneously. A woman, Gulnaz Nandvani, of Hafeez Khoso village was injured when hit by the splinters of the track. 25.4.05 |
Electric towers blown up in District Barkhan
Several electric towers blown up in District Barkhan resulting in, plunging of most of northern-east Balochistan into darkness.
Baloch Freedom Fighters detonated explosive martial at the base of 230kv transmission towers at Hun Naddi area of Barkhan district, several towers collapsed snapping transmission lines electric supply to the Kohlu, Barkhan and parts of Punjab disrupted.
The electricity supply to the affected areas remains suspended till the release of this news report. In another incidence electric supply to several areas of Kalat, 120km (75 miles) south of Quetta, was cut off after the pylon blown up, said Gibreel Khan, a spokesman for the state-run power company
It is worth mentioning that a series of bomb explosions and rockets attacks on security forces and on Government installations, is going on since several years in Balochistan.
Organizations like Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), Baloch Liberation Front (BLF) and Baloch Peoples Liberation Front (BPLF) have time and again said in their statements that their struggle will continue till Baloch people gain their freedom from Punjabi domination and slavery.
21.4.05 |
Two bomb explosions in Quetta
Quetta capital of Balochistan was shaken with two successive bomb explosions on Tuesday.
According to details two successive bomb blasts occurred in Quetta. The first blast happened at 11pm near brewery road police station in a bus stand.
The second explosion happened just a few minutes later on Shahzaman road some distance from the first blast, no casualties have been reported but nearby buildings were badly damaged and windowpanes of many buildings shattered.
According to police two rockets with timer devices were defused before they could go off. Baloch Liberation Army BLA claimed responsibility for the attacks. 20.4.05 |
Three bomb blasts shook Kalat city
Kalat city shook when three consecutive powerful bomb explosions hit Kalat late Tuesday night.
According to details three powerful explosions were heard in Kalat city, all three explosions were aimed at government sensitive institutions. The first blast happened at 7:55 in a session judge courtroom, located in between a police station and a levis headquarter. The buildings of the session court, police station and the levis headquarter sustain severe damage. No casualties reported but some guards posted in these offices fainted.
The second blast occurred 20 minutes later besides adjacent walls of a telephone exchange and a government rest house. Both the buildings suffered damages and windowpanes of nearby houses shattered.
And just 10 minutes later the third blast was heard which happened near the residence of Zila Nazil (District Administrator) Mir Niamatullah Zahri in the house of his PA Abdul Razzaq. No casualties were reported but several people fainted due to the explosions and Kalat district administration was left in a state of panic.
Baloch Liberation Army claimed responsibility for the attacks. 20.4.05 |
Microwave telephone station blown up in Dalbandin
A microwave telephone station near Dalbandin was blown up in a rocket attack all communication to the Dalbandin and surrounding area cut off.
According to sources Baloch insurgents targeted a microwave telephone station near Dalbandin with heavy rocket and automatic fire, on the night between Thursday to Friday.
The microwave station sustained severe damage and all communication to the Dalbandin and surrounding area cut off.
BLA Baloch Liberation Army claimed responsibility for the attack. 16.4.05 |
Gwadar highway construction company attack in Karkh
Baloch insurgents fired four rocket-propelled grenades RPG’s and opened automatic fired at the offices and machinery of a construction company working on Gwadar highway project near Karkh.
According to sources Baloch insurgents attacked a camp of a construction company working on Gwadar to Shadadkot highway project with RPG’s and opened automatic fire. The firing continued for several minutes resulting in damage to construction company offices and machinery but no casualties were reported.
It is worth mentioning that the above-mentioned camp was attacked in the past also in which two workers were critically injured.
15.4.05 |
Insurgents attack FC check post in
Chaghi
A group of Baloch insurgents on two motorbikes attacked a Frontier Corps FC check post with automatic weapons injuring four guards at the check post, the attackers managed to escape unharmed.
According to details, Baloch insurgents attacked a FC check post at Badi in
Chaghi on the night between Monday and Tuesday. The insurgents opened fire with automatic weapons on the post, the attack was so sudden and fierce that FC personnel had no time to retaliate.
Four FC personnel were seriously injured in the attack no casualties were reported. The attackers managed to escape unharmed.
BLA Baloch Liberation Army claimed responsibility for the attack and said it was in retaliation to Dera Bugti massacre and warned of more attacks. 13.4.05 |
Ten
injured in train bomb in Balochistan
Ten people were injured, two of them army personnel who are critically injured, when a bomb exploded Tuesday on a passenger train in the province of Balochistan.
The blast occurred in the economy class coach on the Chiltan Express. The bomb went off as the Lahore-bound train came near Abe Gum station, 85 kilometers (53 miles) south of Quetta.
Ten people were injured in the blast, two of them were in a critical condition. Hawaldar Waheed and Hawaldar
Mahfooz were critically injured who are army personnel. The 'Chiltan Express' was the target of a similar bomb blast last month that killed one person and injured five others.
Baloch Liberation Army claimed responsibility for this and a series of attacks on Pakistan's railway network in recent months. 12.4.05 |
Power tower blown up in Bolan
Baloch Freedom Fighters set off a bomb at the base of a power supply transmission tower
at Mach in district Bolan, blowing up the tower and snapping high power transmission lines under renewed attacks in Balochistan.
Officials of Quetta Electric Supply Company (Qesco) told that the power supply tower No 135 of 220 KV was blown up by unknown persons in Gorug area of district Bolan, some 60 kilometers from the provincial capital.
The explosion left parts of Quetta the capital of Balochistan without electricity. Baloch Freedom Fighters had planted heavy explosive material near the tower, which went off blowing the tower.
A Qesco spokesman said the explosion that took place on the night between Sunday and Monday blowing up the tower and snapped high power transmission lines.
Baloch Liberation Army claimed responsibility for the attack. 11.4.05 |
Two rockets fired at airport radar station in
Panjgur
Turbat airport attacked with rockets radar station damaged. BLF claim responsibility for the attack.
According to details Turbat airport was attacked with rockets, at least one rocket hit the radar station severely damaging it.
Cornell Doda of Baloch Liberation Front BLF claimed responsibility and said it was in retaliation to Dera Bugti and Sui situation. 11.4.05 |
Two CIA policemen injured in
a grenade attack in Quetta
Two CIA policemen seriously injured when their police post was attacked by unknown persons with automatic weapons and grenades in Chaman housing scheme in Quetta.
According to details, some unknown persons attacked a police in Chaman housing scheme with automatic weapons and grenades injuring two policemen and severely damaging the post.
The attackers managed to escape from the scene unharmed. Police have registered cases against unknown attackers. 10.4.05 |
Police patrol van attacked in Mashke
Some unknown persons attacked a police patrol van in the Town of Mashke.
According to sources, some unknown persons attacked a police patrol van in the Town of Mashke when the van was on a routine patrol. The attackers opened fire with automatic machine guns, the attack was so sudden that the police had no time to retaliate.
It is believed that some policemen were injured in the attack but police denied of any casualty and gave no details of the incidence. The attackers managed to escape from the scene unharmed. 7.4.05 |
Four electric transformers blown up in Noshki
Four electric transformers were targeted and blown up when unknown persons opened automatic fire at electric transformers supplying electricity to Noshki.
According to sources some unknown persons blue up four electric transformers when they opened automatic fire resulting in suspension of electric supply to Noshki and surrounding areas. 7.4.05 |
Four rockets fired at Kohlu
Kohlu was rocked on Wednesday evening when four rockets fired from the nearby mountains two hit WAPDA colony and two fell near FC camp and exploded.
Sources said unknown people had fired these rockets from Jandran Mountains. No body was killed or wounded in the attack but windowpanes of nearby houses in WAPDA shattered, details of damage to FC camp not known. 7.4.05 |
Two FC personnel seriously injured in
a blast near Kohlu
Two FC personnel on a regular patrol on a mountain post hit a land mine near Kohlu in a Marri area, the explosion left both soldier critically injured.
The explosion occurred in Fazalchel FC camp area near Kohlu about 350 kilometers east of Quetta. Both soldier were on a routine patrol on a mountain post when they hit a land mine, due to the blast both FC personnel sustained serious injuries. 5.4.05 |
One soldiers killed one injured mine blast in Balochistan
Two paramilitary soldiers moving supplies to a mountain post hit a land mine in a Marri tribal area on Sunday, triggering an explosion that left one dead and another soldier seriously injured.
The explosion occurred in Kahan, a rugged tribal area about 400 kilometers east of Quetta. One soldier died due to injuries and the other lost a leg and a hand in the explosion that occurred while they were walking a mule loaded with rations.
It is believed that Baloch Freedom Fighters could be behind planting the mine, who are struggling against Punjabi oppression and want equal rights for Baloch’s.
Last week, four other soldiers were injured in Kahan when their jeep hit a land mine. On Saturday, a
bomb exploded in Turbat shattering windows at several homes but injuring no one. 4.4.05 |
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