QUETTA, Pakistan - Pakistani security forces arrested a senior nationalist militant with five of his men on Wednesday after a brief clash in the gas-rich province of Baluchistan, officials said. Wahid Bakhsh Qambar is a leader of the banned Baluchistan Liberation Army (BLA), a shadowy insurgent group fighting for control of the province’s gas resources.The suspects were caught in a raid in the Tump area, near the border with Iran, 640 km (400 miles) southwest of the provincial capital, Quetta. “We had intelligence information that Qambar and his men were hiding there and when we reached there they opened fire,” said an officer in the paramilitary Frontier Corps, who declined to be identified.
Qambar and his men were later captured. There were no reports of casualties.
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