| The usual, from Balochistan... |
QUETTA: Gunmen killed a pro-government politician in Balochistan on Wednesday, hours after suspected tribal militants blew up a gas pipeline in the region, officials said. Pakistan Worker’s Party Chairman Nasrullah Kakar was killed in Bostan, 30 kilometres north of Quetta, by unknown attackers. It is not yet clear whether the killing was politically motivated or the result of an old enmity. Balochistan government spokesman Raziq Bugti said that Kakar apparently opposed nationalist forces and was supporting President Pervez Musharraf’s policies in Balochistan.Meanwhile, at least four soldiers were injured when a paramilitary force vehicle struck a landmine in the Mand area, 700 kilometres southwest of Quetta on Wednesday. Dera Bugti District Coordination Officer Abdul Samad Lasi said that a paramilitary solider was injured in a landmine blast on Wednesday morning. Dera Bugti Nazim Kazim Bugti said that four people, including three paramilitary personnel, were killed in four different incidents of landmine explosion and firing on Tuesday. However, government officials could not confirm the incidents. Meanwhile, unidentified attackers blew up a pipeline in Tehsil Sui, District Dera Bugti at 3:30am on Wednesday. “We have closed the pipeline to put out the fire so that repairs to the pipeline can begin,” Multan SNGPL General Manager Ali Hussan Qureshi said.