[Al Ahram] The latest festivities in Sistan-Balochistan
...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...
broke out around a hideout of hard boyz near a village in the centre of the province, the Guards said late Saturday on their Sepah News website.
Sistan-Balochistan, bordering Pakistain and Afghanistan, is a flashpoint for festivities with smuggling gangs as well as separatists from the Baluchi minority and holy warrior murderous Moslem groups.
"Six bandidos were killed and five others maimed," the Sepah News report said, while three members of the Basij, a paramilitary force linked to the Guards, also died. No arrests were announced.
On Friday, the Guards said they had "targeted and killed the perpetrators" behind an attack that left two of their members dead on December 25 in the same province.
On November 18, three police, including a colonel, were killed and six maimed in fighting with an gang in an area bordering Sistan-Balochistan.
In recent years, the most active rebel group in Sistan-Balochistan has been the jihadist outfit Jaish al-Adl (Army of Justice), which has carried out several high-profile bombings and abductions.
In February 2019, 27 Guards were killed in a suicide kaboom on their bus.
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