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| India-Pakistan |
| Pakistani army convoy ambushed |
| 2005-12-25 |
| Miscreants detonated a bomb outside a police station, blew up a railway track and ambushed a military convoy with rockets in Balochistan while the main transmission line supplying power to the province was damaged after another bomb planted at a pylon exploded in Dera Ghazi Khan’s tribal area. According to AP, In a pre-dawn raid, miscreants exploded a bomb outside the police station at Mastoi, 50 kilometres west of Quetta, said police chief Tahir Kasi. Hours earlier, a bomb destroyed a section of a rail track linking Quetta. The attack happened five minutes after a special train carrying officials had passed over it, said Ghulam Rasool, a Railways official. He said engineers had started repair work. Also Saturday, several rockets landed near a post of the Frontier Corps in Kohlu, where the military using helicopter gunships this week dismantled five miscreants training camps. Miscreants also ambushed a military convoy with rockets at Baker, a town about 350 kilometres east of Quetta, injuring several soldiers, said a security official in the region on condition of anonymity. "Yes, security forces suffered casualties, but I don’t have numbers," he said. Lt-Col Hassan Jamil, spokesman for the Frontier Corps, confirmed the attack but said he was not in a position to give details. Our correspondent from DG Khan Adds: The main transmission line supplying power to Balochistan was damaged after a bomb planted at a pylon exploded in Dera Ghazi Khan’s tribal area adjacent to the province. It was the sixth sabotage activity in the district during the last 10 months. Wapda officials said the repair work had been initiated. According to officials, the locally-made powerful bomb blew up in the wee hours of Saturday at tower No 121. About one foot of the tower was completely damaged, however power supply remained uninterrupted, said the officials. The power from the line hit is supplied to Barkhan, Kohlu and other adjoining areas of Balochistan. An official of Mepco circle office told The News that security could not be maintained at each and every tower and transmission line. The officials of Civil Defence Bomb Disposal Squad said the device was locally made, which was wrapped in a polythene bag and planted at one leg of the tower. Political Assistant Tariq Bukhari said an FIR would soon be lodged and the efforts to arrest the accused were on. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #1 Lots of miscreants in Pakistan; ruffians, hooligans and rabblerousers really need to start picking up the slack... |
| Posted by: Raj 2005-12-25 11:20 |