| #3 From Wiki: A cantonment is a temporary or semi-permanent military quarters, typically in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Many cities in the Indian subcontinent, such as Ahmedabad, Belgaum, Bangalore, Ambala,Bathinda, Delhi, Pune and Rawalpindi, contained large cantonments of the former colonial British army. The word cantonment is derived from the French word canton meaning corner or district [1]. While in the 18th and 19th Century cantonments were viewed as semi-permanent, by the turn of the 20th Century they became permanent garrisons, and were further entrenched as such via the military reforms of Lord Kitchener in 1903 and the Cantonments Act of 1924.[2] |
Two rockets were fired in the provincial capital’s cantonment area on Thursday night. One of the rockets hit the Radio Pakistan building, disrupting the supply of electricity to the entire locality. “The first rocket was fired at around 9:20pm, and the other was fired some five minutes after that,” Mahmood Raza, a witness, told Daily Times. Sources said the first rocket hit the residence of former federal information minister Tahir Mohammad Khan, damaging the roof of a room. However, it was believed that the actual target of the attack was the Radio Pakistan building or other government offices located a few meters away from Khan’s house. “The second rocket hit the boundary wall of the radio station and then landed in a river. This attack disrupted the supply of electricity,” said Akhtar Hussain, another witness. The windows of some of the station’s offices were damaged. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.