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| India-Pakistan |
| Hard boyz launch fresh attacks |
| 2005-12-24 |
| Two bomb explosions toppled two electricity pylons in southwestern Pakistan yesterday, disrupting power supply but injuring no one, as militant tribesmen launched fresh attacks against government troops, an army official said. The bombs were planted at the base of the transmission towers supplying electricity to Kohlu, a tribal town east of the provincial capital of Quetta, said Hassan Jamil, a spokesman for the Frontier Corps. Also yesterday, suspected tribesmen fired eight rockets at government installations near Kohlu, which has been gripped by violence between government forces and armed tribesmen since last week's rocket attack while President Pervez Musharraf was visiting. Six rockets landed in a field close to a Frontier Corps post in Fazil Chal near Kohlu, Jamil said. The other two slammed near a railway station in the nearby town of Harnai, injuring one railway guard. Meanwhile, police seized two rockets, three AK-47 rifles and two radio sets in a raid in which an ethnic Baluch tribesman, suspected of involvement in rocket attacks, was arrested, said Amir Farooqi, a local police chief. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |