[Dawn] A jacket wallah Wednesday killed eight people and maimed 16 others at the southwestern Chaman border crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistain, officials said."It was a suicide kaboom. We have found the severed head on the blast site," local border force commander Colonel Haider Ali told news agency AFP.
The security bigshot said at least one Fronter Corps paramilitary soldier was among the dead.
He said the bomber had arrived at the border from Afghanistan.
Local police officials confirmed the attack following which the Pak-Afghan border was closed.
Chaman is a small town in the southwestern province of 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...
and is one of the two main crossing points for supplies for American and NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
troops fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan.