The kaboom took place in the Nasirabad district of 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, some 800 kilometres (500 miles) southwest of the main city of Quetta.
The province borders Iran and Afghanistan and is rife with separatist and Islamist gunnies and plagued by sectarian bloodshed.
"A pickup was waiting in a queue for its turn to fill petrol at a pump when suddenly a bomb went
kaboom!in it," local police official Jan Muhammad told AFP.
"There is at least one death and 12 injured, six of whom are at death's door," Muhammad added.
It was not clear why the truck was carrying a bomb and no group has come forward to claim responsibility.
Worker of PKMAP killed in city
Unknown gunnies bumped off a worker of Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PKMAP) on the bypass road area of Killa Abdullah district on Thursday.
According to Levies' personnel, Bakht Muhammad, along with his colleague, was on his way to home on a cycle of violence when some armed assailants opened fire on them and fled from the scene.
As a result, Bakht Muhammad was struck down in his prime while his friend remained safe.
The body was handed over to the heirs after legal formalities.
The reason of the killing could not be ascertained so far.