QUETTA: Police have arrested 12 members of the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), Balochistan Police Inspector General Chaudhry Yaqoob told an impromptu press conference on Wednesday. He said that the arrested men had confessed to their involvement in the Mach bombing, bomb blasts and rocket attacks on national installations in various parts of the province. They have confessed to their involvement in 14 terrorist acts, he added. Three of the arrested - Shaukat Ali, Mohammad Bakhsh and Akbar - were involved in a bomb blast at a house that killed two children and injured 14 others, the IG said. "All of them testified in the court of a judicial magistrate that they were involved in various terrorist activities." The IG said that local contractor Habibullah Marri was providing financial assistance to the terrorists. Earlier talking to a foreign radio station, the IG held Nawab Akbar Bugti responsible for the terrorist attacks in the province. He said that some sardars were disturbing law and order in the province "to please their masters".