Conflict in Balochistan
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Dawn, Pakistan, Wednesday, 24 Jun, 2009
BALOCHISTAN is simmering. A low-grade insurgency has gradually been gaining strength and the law-enforcement agencies are finding it difficult to check the violence that now erupts with unfailing regularity in the province. Last Friday, a judge and his aide were killed. The same day a bomb blast in Dera Murad Jamali injured a number of people while two were wounded in a grenade attack in Quetta. There have been more incidents of violence since then. In May the police disclosed that since the beginning of 2009, more than 200 incidents of shooting, bomb blasts, grenade attacks and abductions had taken place. More than 150 people had died while approximately 400 were injured. Add to this the toll of the last one month — over 20 deaths and at least 125 injured — and the picture is one of war.
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Labels: Balochistan, Insurgency, Quetta
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Principal gunned down in Quetta
The News International, Pakistan, Wednesday, June 24, 2009
QUETTA: Barely a day after the killing of two men, the principal of the Government Commerce College was gunned dead by two men riding a motorcycle here on Tuesday.
The provincial capital, plagued by both sectarian violence and insurgent attacks, remained paralysed as shops and markets observed a strike to protest Monday’s killings. Professor Amanat Ali was ambushed while travelling to his college. He was taken to the Civil Hospital in critical condition where doctors pronounced him dead. In the meantime, a large number of students of his college reached the hospital and protested against the killing. They also chanted slogans against the government. Later, the body of the principal was dispatched to Lahore for burial.
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QUETTA: Barely a day after the killing of two men, the principal of the Government Commerce College was gunned dead by two men riding a motorcycle here on Tuesday.
The provincial capital, plagued by both sectarian violence and insurgent attacks, remained paralysed as shops and markets observed a strike to protest Monday’s killings. Professor Amanat Ali was ambushed while travelling to his college. He was taken to the Civil Hospital in critical condition where doctors pronounced him dead. In the meantime, a large number of students of his college reached the hospital and protested against the killing. They also chanted slogans against the government. Later, the body of the principal was dispatched to Lahore for burial.
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Labels: Balochistan, Quetta, Target Killings
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Baloch female militants bomb Quetta shop
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Daily Times, Wednesday, June 17, 2009
QUETTA: Two shops were destroyed and a shop owner injured when the women’s wing of the Baloch Republican Army (BRA) bombed a shop on the Mezan Chowk here on Tuesday.
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QUETTA: Two shops were destroyed and a shop owner injured when the women’s wing of the Baloch Republican Army (BRA) bombed a shop on the Mezan Chowk here on Tuesday.
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Labels: Baloch Republican Army, Balochistan, Quetta
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