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2 soldiers martyred in Balochistan while on Eid patrol duty: ISPR
 [Dawn] Two 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.... (FC) soldiers were martyred 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 Harnai district while on Eid patrol duty, a statement released by the Inter-Services Public Relations said on Thursday. According to the statement by the military's media wing, "holy warriors targeted FC troops during their patrolling on Eid security duties." However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... the statement by ISPR did not elaborate further on the incident. The martyred soldiers include Sepoy Yar Muhammad, 23, of Kuch District in Sibi and Sepoy Mehtab Khan, 19, from Laki Marwat, said the statement. The area has been cordoned off and a search operation has begun, the statement further added. According to sources within the Balochistan Levies, a blast from an improvised bomb (IED) occurred at around 8:30am in Harnai's Khost tehsil. "The personnel were bringing water from the stream where the IED was planted," said the sources. The bodies of the slain soldiers have been taken to District Headquarter Hospital (DHQ) Harnai, while the deputy commissioner of Harnai and superintendent of police are on their way to the site of the incident, the sources added. In February, two FC personnel were martyred while a civilian passerby was injured in a firing incident in Balochistan's Loralai city. The attack was termed a assassination by police. The assailants had managed to escape unhurt. Posted by: trailing wife 2019-06-07 |
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