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Suicide bomber kills six at Pak-Afghan border
[Dawn] CHAMAN: At least six officials, including an Afghan border commander, were killed and 19 others injured Friday when a jacket wallah went kaboom! at the Pakistain-Afghanistan border
...also known as Pashtunistan, home of ignorance, poverty, and automatic weapons...
near Chaman region of Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
Pak security officials, who did not want to be named, told Dawn.com that the suicide bomber blew up his detonative while targeting the vehicle of Afghan border forces.

"Our forces miraculously survived since the blast happened at Friendship Gate at Pak-Afghan border," the source said.

According to reports, the incident happened on the Afghan side of the border.

An Afghan border force official, who did not want to be named, said six Afghan border coppers were killed and another 19 sustained injuries. He confirmed that Afghan border commander Akhtar Muhammad had also been killed in the kaboom.

Afghan security officials said Akhtar Muhammad was the intended target of the suicide kaboom.

The condition of five of the injured persons was stated to be serious and they were rushed to Quetta's bordering town of Chaman for medical treatment.

Frontier Corps sources, however, said that some Paks were also among the injured.

The Pak-Afghan border at Chaman was immediately closed following the blast.

Later, FC persons were called at the border to control the situation. Moreover, security was tightened on both sides of the border to avert another untoward incident.
Posted by: Fred 2013-07-06
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