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India-Pakistan
Militant attack at Pasni radar-post kills one in Balochistan
2014-03-30
[DAWN] An armed myrmidon attack at Pasni Radar-Post 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 volatile Mekran belt near Pakistain's port city of Gwadar left one personnel dead, a bigwig said on Saturday.

The Death Eaters fled away the site but only after destroying some technical equipment and planting a bomb at the air traffic control post.

The official in the province's home and tribal affairs department, who requested anonymity owing to sensitivity of the matter, told Dawn.com that eight armed Death Eaters stormed inside the Pasni Radar-Post and killed a personnel deployed there.

"The Death Eaters made eight personnel hostage after the attack," he said, adding that one of them was killed after resistance.

The Pasni Radar-post, located 131 kilometer east from Pakistain's port city of Gwadar, controls air traffic from Western and Gulf countries towards South Asia and Central Asian States.

"The assailants planted a bomb after the attack," the official said and informed that the bomb disposal squad was called in to defuse the bomb.

He said the Death Eaters damaged some technical equipments installed at the Radar-Post after the attack.

"Militants sped away in their vehicles after the attack," he said.

Pasni is considered to be one of the sensitive areas of Balochistan. Militants in the area have been targeting security forces, vital national installations and pro-government personalities for last more than seven years.

There has been no claim of responsibility for the attack. However,
some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves...
the official suspected that the Baloch rebels operating in the area were behind the attack.
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