...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
, officials said.
The miners were kidnapped on July 7 in the Soorang area, 25 kilometres east of the bustling provincial capital Quetta, and their bullet-ridden bodies were found dumped on a roadside in the hills of nearby Degari, administration official Zafar Bokhari told AFP.
The Balochistan Liberation Army, which is fighting for independence from the federal government, had grabbed credit for their kidnapping but there was no claim for their deaths, Bokhari said.
The miners were from the Swat
...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat...valley, which is part of the northwestern province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
, he added.
Local police said the miners had been rubbed out overnight.
On Wednesday, Chief Justice of Pakistain, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, accused paramilitary forces of involvement in a third of all disappearances in Balochistan, where the military has been accused of rights violations in its bid to put down the insurgency.