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Six security officials killed in attack in southwest Pakistan
2018-12-15
[Al Jazeera] Six security officials have been killed in an attack in southwest Pakistain when their convoy came under heavy firing in a mountainous area near the border with Iran.

Pakistain's restive 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 has been hit by a number of attacks on security personnel, but the number of large-scale incidents had decreased significantly since 2016.

The province's information minister Zahoor Ahmed Buledi told the Rooters news agency on Friday that six members of the Frontier Corps
...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and a..the Antwerp-based Salafist organization that had campaigned to introduce Sharia law to Belgium before single-handedly making Belgium the highest per capita supplier of jihadis to Syria in Europe. There was a big trial in Antwerp in 2015, but most of those convicted were in absentia...nti-smuggling operations....
paramilitary force in charge of security in the region were killed in "heavy" firing along a mountainous stretch of road in the Kech district.

Fourteen others were maimed.

The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) and the Baloch Raji Ajoie Sangar (BRAS), armed Baloch separatist groups, have both grabbed credit for the attack, in statements emailed to Al Jazeera.

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