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India-Pakistan
Army deployment starts in Balochistan
2013-04-30
[Pak Daily Times] Over one thousand troops of the Pakistain Army started moving to the sensitive polling areas from Quetta Cantonment on Monday.

The army convoy moved after Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Kayani
... four star general, current Chief of Army Staff of the Mighty Pak Army. Kayani is the former Director General of ISI...
approved the proposal regarding deployment of army personnel at polling stations before May 11 during the corps commanders conference. The troops left for the areas including Mastung, Khuzdar, Washuk, Kharan, Turbat, Panjgur, Gwadar, Dera Bugti, Kohlu and Noshki. Their movement would continue for two days. "Besides police and 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...
Constabulary men, some 17,000 personnel of army, including Frontier Corps, and paramilitary force, would be deployed in volatile districts of the province," Balochistan Home Secretary Akbar Hussain Durrani told media.
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