A remote-controlled bomb targeting a police van killed three passers-by and maimed six other people in Pakistain's troubled southwest on Sunday, police said.The bomb was planted underneath a donkey cart on the outskirts of Quetta, the capital of the oil-and-gas-rich Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
province, which borders Iran and Afghanistan.
"The bomb targeting a police van went
kaboom!seconds after it passed by the cart, killing three passers-by and wounding six others including a policeman,"local police official Sikandar Tareen told AFP.
Another local police official, Saleem Shawani, confirmed the incident and casualties. There was no claim of responsibility, but Balochistan suffers from militancy, sectarian violence between Sunni and Shia Mohammedans and a separatist insurgency.
Gunmen riding a cycle of violence rubbed out the chief warden of the district prison on May 19.
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ...
grabbed credit and said "the slain warden was a cruel person and used to subject our imprisoned leaders and workers to torture".
Hundreds of civilians have been killed since Baloch rebels rose up in 2004 against the federal Pak government, demanding political autonomy and a greater share of profits from the resources in the region.