Balochistan : Several Injured During riots, advocate Shakar Bibi Baloch hospitilized

The Baloch Women Panel members were tear gas shelled and beaten up by Pakistan Frontier Core at golimar chowk Quetta, while protesting against the cold blooded murder of Baloch leaders by Pakistani agencies in Turbat. Sources reported from Quetta that Ten member of Baloch Women panel have been injured when Pakistani security forces started indiscriminate baton charge on the protesters.Advocate Shakar Bibi Baloch has been admitted to hospital after she was beaten up by the Pakistani security personal during a protest. She has received several injuries on her head due security forces baton charge.Several people, including three police officers, were injured during riots in Baluchistan, triggered by the discovery of the bodies of three missing political dissidents. Protesters set fire to several cars, including a United Nations vehicle, Mohammed Mahboob, a spokesman for Edhi Foundation, the biggest ambulance service, said by telephone from the provincial capital of Quetta today. “The fighting is intense.” The clashes are the worst the province has seen since Nawab Akbar Bugti, a tribal chief, was killed on Aug. 26, 2006. Supporters of Bugti, who led demands for a share of Baluchistan’s gas and mineral wealth, accused the army of deliberately killing him in his mountain hideout. The army said he died when the cave he was sheltering in collapsed after an explosion. Security officials were shown on GEO television exchanging gunfire with protesters today while buses were in flames. Shops and offices remained closed in several cities across the province, as rioters set fire to a bank, a post office and the building of a charitable organization, GEO TV reported. The mutilated bodies of three ethnic Baluch nationalists were found before dawn in another part of the province, the Associated Press reported. Several groups are demanding more autonomy from the central government. At least 10 people were killed in riots across the province in 2006 as protesters torched government buildings and set off explosions after Bugti’s death. Reaction Riots “Today’s riots are in reaction to yesterday’s killings,” Munir Husain Mirani, a police inspector said by telephone from Quetta. Rioters attacked police with hand grenades, in which the officers were injured. One police officer was shot dead during the riots, AP reported. “The intelligence agencies have decided that the only way to deal with Baluchis is with the gun,” Senator Hasil Bizenjo, a leader of the Baluch National Party, told reporters in a televised news conference. “We warn them that the reaction will be severe.” This is a “provincial matter and we have nothing to do with it,” Athar Abbas, the army spokesman, said by telephone from Rawalpindi. “We will look into it if there is such an allegation. For now, we don’t have any comment.” Protesters also demonstrated against the killings and exchanged gunfire with the police in parts of Karachi where Baluch have settled, a private TV channel reported.