Landmine blasts kill 10 in Balochistan, including 7 Pakistani forces
Dated 3/4/2006
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Seven policemen are among 13 people killed in a series of landmine blasts and allied attacks in various parts of Balochistan on Sunday.
Twenty-eight were also injured in these incidents.
The landmine explosions occurred at Killi Waziran, near Sanni Cross in the Dhahdhar area of the Bolan district, a field camp of the Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) and at Naseerabad, some 200km southeast of Quetta.
Paramilitary forces also defused a remote-controlled bomb planted on the main railway line near Mach Railway Station a couple of hours before two passenger trains were to pass the spot.
Sunday also witnessed a protest rally against the Army crackdown on militants. It drew around 8,000 activists of the Balochistan National Alliance (BNP), who marched on the outskirts of Quetta and chanted anti-Musharraf slogans.
The demonstrators demanded Islamabad end the military operation in the province, and called upon the US to stop the Pakistan government from using US-supplied weapons against tribesmen in Balochistan, reports The News.
