9 November 2008

Balochistan: Ceasefire against occupying enemy holds on, brother killing and self destruction continues undebated

Abdullah Marri and his son killed in Quetta, Bomb blast in Sui kills one
QUETTA: Unidentified armed men on Saturday gunned down a provincial information officer and his father in Satellite Town, police said.
According to police, Murtaza Marri, an information officer from the Balochistan Directorate of Public Relations (DPR), and his father Abdullah Marri, a senior banker, were going to the market in their car when motorcyclists intercepted them at Khatm-e-Nabuwat chowk at around 9am and opened fire on them.
As a result, both received multiple bullet injuries and died before reaching the hospital. The attackers managed to escape from the scene. The reasons for the murder could not be ascertained.
Police have registered a case against the unknown assailants. No group has accepted responsibility for the murder of the Marri tribesmen. BLA is the main suspect according to some influential people in Balochistan Govt.
Bomb blast in Sui kills one
QUETTA: A remote-controlled bomb planted on a motorcycle killed a passer-by and wounded five others Sunday in a market in Sui, police said. An ethnic Baloch nationalist group claimed responsibility.
The blast occurred in the town of Sui in Balochistan province, police officer Abdul Majid Dasti said. Two of the wounded were in serious condition, he said.
In a phone call to reporters, Balochistan Republican Army spokesman Sarbaz Baloch said the group was behind the attack. He claimed the explosion killed an opponent of the movement, but police would not confirm that.
The Balochistan Republican Army is part of a low-level insurgency that has long rattled the province. The insurgents are seeking greater provincial autonomy and more control over the area's natural resources.
The Balochistan violence is just part of the militant threat facing Pakistan's US-allied government. The Muslim nation's northwestern regions bordering Afghanistan have been bedeviled by Taliban- and al-Qaeda-linked extremists involved in attacks throughout the country.

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