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QUETTA: Suspected tribal rebels blew up two pipelines supplying gas to the national grid Thursday in the latest violence to hit the southwestern Pakistani province of Balochistan, officials said. One blast hit a pipeline in the Pesh Bogi area, near the town of Dera Bugti where tribesmen and security forces are locked in a two-month-old standoff, local administration official Abdul Samad Lasi told AFP. The other blast knocked out a 15-inch gas pipeline from Pirkoh, while pipelines at Wells No 33 and 37 were slightly damaged by firing. However, with the Pirkoh Gas Plant shut down, only a small amount of gas was released. Lasi said the insurgents also fired some 20 rockets at paramilitary troops who have been deployed in the area to protect government installations. "They targeted eight check posts, bunkers and a paramilitary base but luckily no one was injured," Lasi said.