The Frontier Constabulary (FC) on Monday arrested 45 people, including some officials, on suspicion of involvement in attacks on gas transmission lines and checkpoints of law-enforcement agencies. âWe have taken some suspects into custody for interrogation on suspicion of involvement in laying landmines in the area and attacking checkpoints. The crackdown will continue until peace is restored in the area. A number of employees from the Levies, the Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited and the Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) have also been arrested because they are believed to have been involved in subversive activities and belonged to the same Bugti tribe which has been creating trouble in the area,â according to a Frontier Constabulary acting commandant. He said FC Commandant Lt Col Moin Qadar, who was injured by a landmine blast, is fast recovering. Nawab Akbar Bugti, the former governor of Balochistan and the chief of the Bugti tribe, said the Frontier Constabulary and other law enforcement agencies had spread terror in the area and were harassing the general public by snatching their vehicles.
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