kaboom!Thursday near a police check-post in a southwestern Pak town near the Afghan border, killing one civilian and wounding 13 others, police said.
The bomb went off in the border town of Chaman in the troubled Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
province.
"The bomb was planted in a cycle of violence. One person was killed and 13 were maimed -- all of them were civilians," Shahid Saleem, a police official in Chaman told AFP.
Saleem said the apparent target of the bombing was the police check-post but coppers there were unhurt.
Ismail Ibrahim, a senior government official in Chaman, told AFP that the bomb exploded via remote control.
No group has yet grabbed credit for the attack but Balochistan, the least developed province of Pakistain bordering Afghanistan and Iran, has been badly hit by a decade-long Baluch separatist insurgency and sectarian violence mainly targeting Shiites Mohammedans from the ethnic Hazara community.
Chaman is one of two major border crossings between Pakistain and Afghanistan, along with Torkham in the northwest, and is the main land route for NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
supplies crossing from Pakistain into Afghanistan.