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6 Levies personnel martyred in Ziarat
[DAWN] Six Levies personnel were martyred in an attack 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... 's Ziarat district on Wednesday. Deputy Commissioner Ziarat Qadir Bakhsh Pirkani said that armed gunnies attacked a Levies checkpost in Ziarat's Sanjavi area in the morning. All Levies personnel deployed at the checkpost were martyred, he added, while the gunnies managed to escape. The bodies of the martyred personnel, identified as Daffadar Mehtabuddin, Sepoy Abdul Hakeem, Sepoy Faqir Muhammad, Sepoy Muhammad Usman, Sepoy Abdul Shakoor, Sepoy Daad Muhammad, were taken to Sanjavi Hospital. After the incident, Levies personnel and other law enforcement agencies reached the spot to launch an investigation into the attack.
Bakhsh said the attackers were armed with automatic weapons and fled after the assault early Wednesday, adding that a search operation has been launched in the area. The Pak Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... later grabbed credit for the attack in an email sent to media. Posted by: Fred 2019-03-21 |
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