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1 dead, 12 injured in blast at Pak-Afghan border in Balochistan's Chaman area
[DAWN] A child has died and at least 12 other people were maimed after a suspected suicide kaboom attempted to target a paramilitary vehicle near the Chaman border crossing in 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... , officials told DawnNews. The injured had been taken to Civil Hospital Chaman for treatment, with three of them at death's door, District Police Officer Abdul Hayee Baloch and administration official Qaiser Khan Nasir said. A 12-year-old boy injured in the blast departed this vale of tears at CHC, hospital sources said. Nasir said a jacket wallah targeted the paramilitary patrol but their vehicle sped away and it was passers-by who were struck by the kaboom. A senior administration official speaking to DawnNews added that body parts of a suspected suicide attacker were collected by law enforcement agencies during an initial sweep of the area following the blast. Security has been tightened in and around the border in the aftermath of the kaboom. Besides Levies, Frontier Corps ...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and a..the Antwerp-based Salafist organization that had campaigned to introduce Sharia law to Belgium before single-handedly making Belgium the highest per capita supplier of jihadis to Syria in Europe. There was a big trial in Antwerp in 2015, but most of those convicted were in absentia...nti-smuggling operations.... personnel have also reached the spot and cordoned off the area to probe the incident. Majlis-e-Abrar, a breakaway faction of the Tehrik-e-Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... Pakistain, grabbed credit for the attack. The group has claimed several such attacks earlier. In the recent past, Chaman is considered a sensitive town in Balochistan as it shares a border with Afghanistan's volatile Kandahar province. Posted by: Fred 2017-09-19 |
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