[Excerpt: Ethnic minority Baluch rebels have been waging a low-level uprising in the province for decades for greater economic and political autonomy, but they have recently stepped up attacks on targets such as natural gas pipelines, electricity pylons and railway lines. ....Security has been tight since an attack on the country's largest gasfield in Sui on 11 January, in which 15 people were killed......Last Thursday, eight soldiers were killed and 23 wounded in a battle with the fighters on the outskirts of Dera Bugti town. A tribal leader said 62 people were killed on his side.]
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/94CF1438-24F2-4351-BEE7-808AA266EB1B.htm Gas pipeline blown up in Pakistan Wednesday 23 March 2005, 9:30 Makka Time, 6:30 GMT A gas pipeline has been blown up in Pakistan's Baluchistan province, the latest attack in an area where tribal fighters are waging a renewed campaign for autonomy. Aljazeera's correspondent in Islamabad reported that an unknown group attacked the gas pipeline on the Khamri Bridge between Sui and Quetta in southwestern Pakistan. The blast caused a partial disruption of gas supplies in the region. The explosion coincided with a visit by a parliamentary delegation charged with investigating disturbances in the region. Other attacks In another attack on Tuesday night, an office of the ruling faction of the Pakistan Muslim League was destroyed by a blast in Turbat town, in the west of the province. No one was wounded in either blast. "A four-foot (1.5-m) section of the pipeline was blown up," security force commander Khair Muhammad Jamali said in the provincial capital, Quetta. The ruptured pipeline, which supplied gas from Shikarpur to many parts of the province, was sealed off after the attack. Ethnic minority Baluch rebels have been waging a low-level uprising in the province for decades for greater economic and political autonomy, but they have recently stepped up attacks on targets such as natural gas pipelines, electricity pylons and railway lines. Security has been tight since an attack on the country's largest gasfield in Sui on 11 January, in which 15 people were killed. Last Thursday, eight soldiers were killed and 23 wounded in a battle with the fighters on the outskirts of Dera Bugti town. A tribal leader said 62 people were killed on his side. Political solution Hundreds of fighters have surrounded a security post in the remote town since the battle, and a top commander said on Tuesday the confrontation could degenerate into a major crisis unless a political solution could be found. The unrest in Baluchistan is the latest security headache for President Pervez Musharraf's government. Troops have been confronting rebels on the rugged western border with Afghanistan for the past year and the authorities are also trying to end sectarian violence between fighters from the majority Sunni and minority Shia communities. In the 1970s, the government launched a sweeping campaign against Baluch fighters, largely ending their agitation for several years. Aljazeera + Agencies ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Take a look at donorschoose.org, an excellent charitable web site for anyone who cares about public education! http://us.click.yahoo.com/_OLuKD/8WnJAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
