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Dozen blasts rock Balochistan, cut Iran rail link
Azizullah Khan
Quetta: At least four people including two passersby were killed and four others injured in a clash near Dera
Allahyar some 300 km south east of here on Tuesday.
In another incident, around a dozen blasts rocked Balochistan, cutting the lone rail link with Iran and injuring four
people, police said.
Chief of his own faction of Jamhoori Watan Party and son of Nawab Akbar Bugti, Talal Akbar Bugti claimed that
Frontier Corp and intelligence personnel along with pro agencies Bugti tribesmen attacked his bodyguards at
Sohbat Pur road. He said that at least four people including two passers-by were killed and four injured. A Hindu
trader was among the killed ones. He alleged that one of his guards Peeru Rehja was arrested in injured
condition.
Local people said that four Bugti tribesmen were going to Put Feeder area and security forces signalled them to
stop. All of a sudden firing started where four people including Muhammad Musa, Nazir Ahmad, Sachanand, and
Nari Bugti were killed. Ali Jan, Muhammad Salim, Ghulam Mustafa and Murad Bakhsh were injured in the firing.
Local journalists said that tension prevails in the area after the incident. Traders closed their shops as a protest.
Talal Bugti when asked whether proclaimed offender or Farari were among the body guards, he said that Farari
were with security forces who attacked their body guards. He said that Peeru Bugti was living in Dera Allah Yar for
the last six months and there was no complaint against him.
In this regard efforts were made to contact District Police Officer Dera Allah Yar Sohail Ahmad Sheikh but he was
not attending his mobile telephone. The Nazim of the area Khan Muhammad Jamali was out of station and the
telephone of provincial government spokesman Raziq Bugti was switched off.
Reuters adds:
However, another report said the men killed in the clash were militants. "The gunfight broke out when security
forces acting on a tip-off raided a militant hideout," said police officer Sohail Sheikh.
"They opened fire on security forces in an attempt to flee and unfortunately two civilians were also killed," he said.
According to Sheikh, three militants and four passersby were wounded.
AFP adds:
In a separate incident, four people were hurt when "miscreants" lobbed a hand grenade at labourers sleeping on
open ground in Quetta, city police chief Wazir Khan Nasir told AFP, using the official jargon for the rebels. Three
blasts targeted railway tracks, cutting off Quetta's twice-weekly rail link with the Iranian border town of Zahedan and
also suspending train services to the rest of Pakistan, officials said. The next Zahedan service was due on Friday.
Other explosions ruptured gas pipelines. The outlawed Balochistan Liberation Army said it had carried out the
attacks to coincide with the May 28 anniversary of Pakistan's 1998 underground nuclear tests, which were
conducted in the province's Chaghi mountains.
