 | Seafarious made me a hat like that for the last Rantapalooza. Every once in awhile I put it on. The Little Woman rolls her eyes and the cat avoids me. | QUETTA: Four rockets were fired in Kohlu district on Monday, coinciding with the arrival of Balochistan Chief Minister Jam Muhammad Yousaf. FC troops retaliated by firing rockets at the assailants in Kohlu, some 350 kilometres east of Quetta. A Frontier Corp (FC) spokesman underplayed the attack as a ‘routine matter’, and dismissed claims they were related to the chief minister’s visit. Unconfirmed reports alleged that the rockets landed near the helipad where the chief minister’s helicopter was scheduled to land. Meanwhile, a man, calling himself Azad Baloch,
"Free Baluch"? If that's not an alias it should be... | claimed responsibility for the attack on behalf of the Balochistan Liberation Army and the Baloch People’s Liberation Front Azad Baloch said that the rockets had been fired specifically in view of the chief minister’s visit.
Meanwhile in separate incidents, three rockets were fired and two bombs exploded in Kohlu early Monday morning. The bombs went off near a doctor’s clinic. Local government elections are scheduled to be held in Kohlu on August 25. Baloch nationalist forces accuse the chief minister of conducting the election campaign for Pakistan Muslim League (PML) candidates in violation of Election Commission regulations. Observers believe that the chief minister’s visit to Kohlu was aimed for the PML-backed candidates’ election campaign. |