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Blast kills one, injures 15 in southwest Pakistan
 A bomb fixed to a bicycle killed one man and injured 15 people in southwestern Pakistan's restive desert province of Baluchistan on Thursday, police said.
| Is there a part of Pak-land that isn't restive? |
The attack at Khuzdar, 250 kilometres (155 miles) south of the provincial capital Quetta, was the second in 24 hours in the region, which is always in the throes of a low-level tribal uprising. Senior police official Ghulam Qadir Thabo said the blast, detonated by remote control, was probably aimed at a vehicle of the paramilitary Frontier Corps which was slightly damaged. A paramilitary soldier was among the injured, who were all taken to hospital with one of them in critical condition. The unrest in Baluchistan is fuelled by resentment that foreign investors and richer neighbouring provinces are creaming off profits from the region.
| Nothing to do with the age-old disputes over religion, goats and wimmin, of course. |
The sparsely populated province, which borders southern Afghanistan and Iran, is poverty-stricken yet rich in natural resources.
Posted by: Steve White 2004-11-26 |
