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4 electricity towers blown up
 Four electricity poles near Barkhan, in the border area of Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan, were blown up on Saturday morning, disrupting the power supply to the area. WAPDA authorities despatched a team from Dera Ghazi Khan to restore power. "Outlaws used explosives to blow up four electricity poles near Barkhan," said a police statement. A QESCO spokesman said that power would be restored in the next 72 hours, Online reported. A bomb exploded outside the office of the pro-government Pakistan Workers Party in Qalat on Friday, damaging walls and windows but causing no casualties, a police official told AP on Saturday. No one claimed responsibility for the blast.Posted by: Fred 2005-08-14 |
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