 The Pakistan Army has set up a new military base near the Sui gas field, where thousands of forces were deployed after a deadly rocket attack this month that disrupted fuel supplies, officials said on Wednesday. The move will anger tribesmen who have strongly opposed government plans to establish new military garrisons in the region.
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Colonel Mazhar Masood said that a military cantonment is being established in Sui, a town near where rocket and mortar attacks on January 7-11 killed at least eight soldiers and civilians and forced a temporary shutdown at a gas plant and pipeline, disrupting supplies across the country. "A new cantonment has been set up in Sui over 400 acres of land. Primarily, a battalion of army soldiers with tanks and other military equipment has been taken there," Masood, who is in charge of the garrison, told reporters. |