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200 PPP activists arrested in Balochistan |
2007-11-17 |
Saturday witnessed the first violent reactions in Balochistan against the emergency as police detained around 200 activists of the Pakistan PeopleÂ’s Party (PPP) who blocked the highway connecting Balochistan with Sindh. PPP supporters and the police skirmished in different parts of Balochistan as the police arrested around 200 anti-emergency protesters from various districts and the provincial capital. PPP sources said that police had conducted raids at different places and had arrested around 200 party workers from Quetta, Kuchlak, Chaman, Qila Saifullah, Loralai, Turbat, Jaffarabad, and Noshki districts. |
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