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| Khair Baksh Marri's house raided in Quetta |
| 2008-02-02 |
| Security personnel raided the Quetta residence of Baloch nationalist leader Nawab Khair Baksh Marri early on Friday and whisked away his watchman, a Marri tribe spokesman said. The Organisation for Marri Unity spokesman said plainclothesmen were also among the team that arrived in 30 vehicles and searched the room of Nawab Marri’s son Nawabzada Herbyair Marri, who is currently detained in the UK. “The security personnel damaged many household articles during the raid. They blindfolded and whisked away the security guard after failing to find anything illegal from the house,” the spokesman said. He alleged that the raid was carried out on the instructions of intelligence agencies to defame the Baloch leadership. Biburg Baloch, a spokesman for the banned Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), confirmed the raid, and said that security forces had started a new military operation in the Marri areas wherein “dozens of people have been killed, several injured and a large number of the Marri tribesmen have been whisked away”. “Security forces have been bombing the Kahan area. Ground troops are also operating in the Marri areas. Unarmed Baloch people are being victimised,” he told Daily Times via satellite phone from an unknown location. He said the BLA would react to the recent incidents. “There is no reality in the government’s claim that insurgents’ camps have been eradicated. For the past four years, the government has been claiming that it had destroyed 63 camps of Baloch freedom fighters and that only 3 to 4 are still operating,” he said, adding that the BLA’s operation had been expanded across the province. However, there was no official confirmation about the raid on Nawab Marri’s house or the ground operations in the Marri areas. |
| Posted by:Fred |