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India-Pakistan
BLA men confess to bombing KFC, PPL
2005-12-06
Two suspected members of a radical ethnic group on Monday confessed to involvement in a deadly car bombing outside a building housing a KFC restaurant and a state petroleum company in the Karachi, an official said. The two men were arrested two days after the November 15 explosion that left at least three people dead.

On Monday, the suspects, identified as Aziz Khan and Mangla Khan, told a judge that they parked the explosives-laden car near the building, police prosecutor Ismail Qureshi said. The suspects are alleged to be members of the Balochistan Liberation Army, an ethnic Baloch group in the Balochistan province. The group claimed responsibility for the Karachi bombing, saying it wanted to target the Pakistan Petroleum Limited. The company operates oil and gas fields in Balochistan, and BLA has claimed to have targeted its facilities in the mineral-rich province in the past as part of a strategy to get more revenues for resources extracted in the impoverished province. Qureshi said the two suspects still faced a trial but it was not known when it will begin.
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