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India-Pakistan
Bomb Kills Six at Pakistan Political Meeting
2012-07-14
[An Nahar] A kaboom killed at least six people outside a party political meeting in Pakistain's troubled southwestern city of Quetta on Friday, police said.

The bomb exploded by remote control as the secular Pashtun nationalist Awami National Party (ANP) held a public meeting on the outskirts of the capital of oil and gas rich 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...
province, which borders Afghanistan and Iran.

"The corpse count in the blast has risen to six," local police official Wazir Khan Nasir told Agence La Belle France Presse.

He said the bomb had been planted on a bicycle, adding that those killed in the attack also included a young girl while six others were maimed.

A police surgeon at a local hospital, Ghulam Haider, also confirmed the new toll.

Balochistan is one of the most deprived areas of Pakistain where Baluch rebels rose up in 2004, demanding political autonomy and a greater share of profits from the oil, gas and mineral resources in the region.
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