[DAWN] At least two people were maimed in a blast near the election office 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...
Awami Party (BAP) in Khuzdar on Thursday night, DawnNewsTV reported.
According to police, unidentified miscreants targeted the campaign office of Agha Shakeel Durrani, the leader of BAP contesting elections from Khuzdar.
The injured were rushed to a nearby hospital for medical treatment where a state of emergency was imposed to treat the injured.
Know more: BAP promises good governance, stability
The blast was reportedly followed by intense firing. Police and personnel of other law enforcement agencies reached the spot as an investigation into the incident went underway.
Balochistan Inspector General of Police (IGP) Mohsin Butt said holy warriors are planning to sabotage election activities in the province.
"Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(IS), Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
 ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ...
(LJ) and sub-nationalists are trying to sabotage election campaigns in Balochistan, he told DawnNewsTV.
However,
the hip bone's connected to the leg bone...
he provided assurances that security had been tightened in the province to ensure peaceful conduct of the election.
|
