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India-Pakistan
Blasts Kill One, Injure 11 in SW Pakistan
2014-01-05
[An Nahar] Back-to-back blasts on Saturday killed one and injured 11 others, including a senior politician, in the southwestern Pak province of 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...
, which borders Afghanistan and Iran, officials said.

In first attack, an explosives-packed cycle of violence detonated at a taxi stand in the Sibi district of Balochistan, killing one person and injuring nine others.

"Unknown people parked the explosive-laden cycle of violence at a taxi stand in Bakhtiarabad town on (the) main Sibi-Jacobabad national highway," Mohammad Akhtar, a local administration official, told Agence La Belle France Presse.

In the second attack, in the Balochistan bustling provincial capital of Quetta, Abdul Majid Abro, an adviser to the Chief Minister of the province, received minor injuries along with one of his colleagues.

A bomb disposal squad official told AFP that four kilograms of explosives were used in that blast, detonated by remote control.

So far, no one has grabbed credit for the attacks.
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