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February 2007 Headlines |
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Two DCOs’ homes attacked in Balochistan
A grenade was hurled at the home of the Kalat district coordination
officer on Tuesday. According to sources, the grenade exploded in the
backyard of the house. On Monday night, a bomb also exploded near the
house of the Mastung DCO. 28.02.07 |
Rail track blown up in DM Jamali, bomb blast in Mastung
The main railway track near Dera Murad Jamali, some 250km east of here,
was blown up late on Monday night, severing rail link between the
provincial capital and rest of the country for a second time in 24
hours. Meanwhile a powerful explosion was heard in the township of
Mastung 50 Km from the capital Quetta. BLA (Baloch Liberation Army)
clamed responsibility for the attacks. 27.2.07 |
Rockets fired at FC check post in Khuzdar
A rocket was fired at the Balochistan Constabulary’s check post in
Khuzdar district. Baloch freedom fighters rockets at a check post in
Gasleeti Charrai, Khuzdar district. 26.2.07 |
Train track blown up in Balochistan
Baloch insurgents bombed a main railway track in the Dasht area, some 22
kilometres south of Quetta, Balochistan. BLA (Baloch Liberation Army)
clamed responsibility for the blast. 25.2.07 |
Rocket hits Quetta cantonment, city plunges into darkness
A rocket attack on a grid station triggered an extensive power failure
in Quetta on Saturday. The rocket struck a transformer, which caught
fire; suspending power supply to a large part of Quetta was disconnected
on Saturday night. BLA (Baloch Liberation Army) accepted the
responsibility for the attack. 25.2.07 |
Mastung rocked by powerful explosion
The Mastung Township, about 50km from here, was rocked by a powerful
bomb explosion, late on Friday night. 24.2.07 |
Bomb blast kills three suspected militants in eastern Pakistan
Two suspected suicide attackers were blown to pieces when the explosive
device they were carrying exploded in the eastern Pakistani town of
Chichawatni early Saturday. Another injured in the blast died later.
Pakistan is in the grip of chaos, as just in suicide bombing attacks
over 37 people have been killed since this January across the country,
including in capital Islamabad, Peshawar, and Quetta. Mean while
Pakistani army is suffering heavy casualties and huge economical losses
in attacks by Baloch Freedom Fighters. All the sign of a failed state.
24.2.07 |
BLA blows up rail track near Quetta
The rail link between Quetta and the rest of the country was cut off as
insurgents blew up a main railway line near Quetta late on Tuesday
night. BLA (Baloch Liberation Army) clamed responsibility for the blast.
21.2.07 |
Gas pipeline blown up in Dera Bugti
Baloch insurgents blew up a gas pipeline in Sui area of Dera Bugti in
Pakistan's restive Balochistan province, cutting off gas supply to the
Sui purification plant. BLA (Baloch Liberation Army) clamed
responsibility for the attack. 21.2.07 |
 BPP
condemns show trail and execution by hanging of Nasrollah Shanbehzai
Nasrollah ShanbeZahi has been executed by hanging in public on Monday
(19-02-2007; 10:00 AM) at local time in capital of Balochistan, the
official Islamic Republic News Agency reported. An Iranian revolutionary
court in Balochistan accused Mr. Shanbezhai a day after the last week's
bombing that killed 11 members of The Elite Revolutionary Guards who are
not accountable to any other authorities but are directly under the
command of Ayotollah Khameneyi. 20.2.07 |
Letter to UN-Ban Ki-Moon Secretary-General United Nations
United Nations Security Council on 15th February 2007 debated and
subsequently in a statement condemned the bombing on Wednesday of
Revolutionary Guards of Iranian regime in Zahidan. It is astonishing to
see the UN as the protector of human rights body to be drawn into an
unusual and unprecedented act by taking side with the Iranian state
which is renowned for its violation of humane rights. On behalf of
oppressed Baloch people Balochistan National Movement (Zrombesh) appeals
for your urgent intervention to safeguard innocent lives in Balochistan
and bring the Iranian regime into accountability under the international
law for violating the democratic rights of Baloch in Balochistan.
20.2.07 |
Gunmen attack Pakistani minister in Balochistan, gas pipeline blown up
in Quetta
Gunmen attacked the convoy of a Pakistani government minister in the
restive southwestern province of Balochistan on Tuesday but he escaped
unhurt. Earlier on Tuesday, Baloch freedom fighters blew up a gas
pipeline on the outskirts of Quetta, cutting supplies to four districts
near the city and a 95 MW city power plant. Supplies might be restored
to some areas within 24 hours, officials said. 20.2.07 |
Baloch insurgents blow up gas pipeline in Balochistan
Baloch insurgents blew up a gas 18-inch pipeline near Quetta on Tuesday,
cutting supplies to a power plant and several areas.Gas supplies were
cut to four districts near Quetta and a 95 MW city power plant. BLA
claimed responsibility for the attack. 20.2.07 |
Army attacked in Marri area, six killed seven injured
Baloch Freedom Fighters attack Pakistani army in three different places
in Marri area killing six and at least seven injuredand a powerful blast
Sibi. A spokesman of BLA clamed responsibility for the attacks and said
that they suffered no casualties in these attacks, and said that their
morale is high and soon the Punjabi tyrants will be kicked out of
Balochistan. 19.2.07 |
Seven FC killed nine injured in Dera Bugti District
Pakistani army suffers several casualties in attacks by Baloch freedom
fighters in Marri and Bugti areas. During last 24 hours Pakistani army
came under five insurgent attacks in Pirkoh, Sangsila and Sui Tratani.
At least seven Punjabi army solders killed and nine injured on Sunday.
Baloch freedom Fighters clamed responsibility for the attack.19.2.07 |
 Quetta
powerful bomb blast kills 15 and at least 25 injured
A suspected suicide bomber in Quetta killed 15 people, including a judge
and injured atleast 25 in a courtroom in the city of Quetta on Saturday,
the latest in a series of suicide blasts to have sent shudders through
the country. Officials in Quetta were unsure who carried out Saturday's
blast. "Initially we suspect Baloch Nationalist, as well as Afghan
Taliban could be behind the attack," Razak Bugti, a spokesman for the
Balochistan government, said. 17.2.07 |
Missing Marri tribesman returns in a bad shape
A jirga member of the Marri tribe missing from july 2005 return home in
a bad shape on Wednesday night. In a press release issued here on
Thursday, a spokesman for the Anjuman Ittehad Marri said that Haji
Mohammad Jan Marri had been abandoned at a deserted place near Quetta.
16.2.07 |
Twenty three people arrested in New Kahan Quetta, Army Built-up in
Tratani
Urdu News source: Daily Tawar 15.2.07 |
Four soldiers killed several injured near Kahan, gas pipeline blown up
near Kashmore
In an attack on army camp in the Marri area of Tratani, four soldiers
killed and several injured. A gas pipeline was blown up near Kashmore on
Wednesday causing suspension of gas to the purification plant. It is the
second incidence of gas pipeline blowing up in last 24 hours in the
area. Baloch freedom fighter clamed responsibility for the attack BLA
(Baloch Liberation Army) claimed responsibility for the attack. 15.2.07 |
Bomb damages gas pipeline in Sui Balochistan
A bomb ripped through gas pipeline in the main gas producing town of Sui
in Balochistan on Wednesday, no casualties reported but suspending gas
supply to several cities. Most of the attacks on installations and army
personnel are carried out by BLA (Baloch Liberation Army). It is the
organization waging an armed struggle against the Punjabi Pakistan for
an independent Balochistan. 14.2.07 |
Punjabi shopkeeper killed, two injured in Quetta
A Punjabi shopkeeper was killed and two others suffered injuries when
armed men opened fire at a shop near Askrai Park in cantonment area on
Monday night. When looting, plunder, abduction, killing and now arrests
of Baloch women and children have become the order of the day. When such
rules are being set by the Punjabi rulers then killing of Punjabis in
Balochistan could not come as a surprise, such reactions are based upon
the frustration of the common people who have nothing more to lose now,
except their lives. 13.2.07 |
Quetta under rocket attacks
The capital of Balochistan was rocked on Monday night when two
explosions were heard with brief interval around 11:30pm. the first
exploded in Pashtoonabd area and the second was also heard in Balock-5
of the Satellite town. BLA (Baloch Liberation Army) claimed
responsibility for the attack. 13.2.07 |
Six army personnel killed, sixteen injured in Marri area
Urdu News source: Daily Tawar 13.2.07 |
Gas pipeline blown up in Sariab area of Quetta
A main gas pipeline in the Sariab area was blown up on Saturday,
suspending supply to a major parts of the Quetta, Pishin, Ziarat city,
the cantonment area and other villages were suspended. The gas pipeline
caught fire in the blast and the SSGC had to stop gas supply to control
the fire. BLA claimed responsibility for the blast. 10.2.07 |
Pakistani rail track blown up near Dera Ghazi Khan
A portion of railway track on the Quetta-Multan section, in a high
security zone near an installation of the Atomic Energy Commission in
Punjab, was blown up on Monday night. BLA (Baloch Liberation Army)
clamed responsibility for the attack. 6.2.07 |
Gas supply suspended in Quetta
Gas supply was suspended to some areas in the city suburbs on Monday
night after a pipeline was damaged in an explosion near Gahi Khan Chowk
in the Sariab area. BLA (Baloch Liberation Army clamed) responsibility
for the attack. 6.2.07 |
Press Release
Protest Demonstration to Condemn Pakistani Atrocities against Baloch
and Sindhis
A massive protest rally was organised on 4 February, 2007 in front of
American Embassy in London on the call given by Balochistan Action
Committee, World Sindhi Congress (WSC), Balochistan Rights Movement
(BRM) and Sindhi Baloch Forum (SBF).5.2.07 |
Baloch women and children arrested, seven soldiers killed and four
injured, gas pipeline and electric pylons blow up
Dozens of Baloch women and children arrested after army suffering
humiliating defeats by the hands of BLA fighters. A vehicle carrying
soldiers was attacked in Kahan Tehsil, killing seven and injuring two.
Gas pipeline and electricity pylons blown up Dera Bugti area, two
soldiers seriously injured when the vehicle came under fire near Mand on
Sunday. BLA claimed responsibilities for the attacks. 5.2.07 |
Letter to President George W. Bush
Subject: Atrocities of Pakistani Army against Baloch and Sindhi people
Members of Baloch and Sindhi communities in United Kingdom would like to
draw your attention to the heinous crimes of the Pakistan’s military
regime against Baloch and Sindhi people and in this regard we would like
to seek your urgent intervention. 4.2.07 |
Road side blast in Dera Bugti, four seriously injured
Three army personnel were critically injured when their vehicle was
targeted with a remote controlled road side bomb. Anti personnel
landmines explosion injures an Punjabi informer in Dera Bugti area on
Saturday. Meanwhile, Wadera Alam Khan a commander of Baloch freedom
fighters said on telephone that security forces have suffered more
casualties. He said that the civilian injured in a blast was a
government informer. 4.2.07 |
Rocket attack blacks out Gwadar port city into darkness
Gwadar port city and the entire district blacked out for several hours
when Baloch freedom fighters fired several rockets, one of them hitting
an electricity pylon. BLA claimed responsibility for the attack. 3.2.07 |
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