... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
and Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
are involved in sectarian violence, kabooms, assassinations and other terrorist and criminal activities in 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...
, particularly Quetta, according to a senior government official.
"Although some local groups were involved in sabotage acts in Balochistan, we have intelligence information that some gangs of myrmidons groups have shifted to Quetta from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Karachi and they are also involved in sectarian violence, kabooms and assassinations here," Balochistan Home Secretary Asad Gilani said here on Wednesday.
Addressing a presser along with Quetta Commissioner Usman Gul and police chief Arif Nawaz, he said there were threats to Ashura Majalis and processions in sensitive districts of Balochistan, especially Quetta, and a comprehensive security plan had been devised to maintain peace and order.
The official said some evidence had been found of the presence of anti-peace elements and their involvement in preparing a terrorist plot in a seminary on the Eastern Bypass where a bomb had went
kaboom!recently.
He said the entry of 69 firebrand
...
firebrandsare noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments...
religious scholars into Quetta had been banned for Muharram. Both Sunni and Shia speakers were on the list, he said.
Mr Gilani said the Quetta, Bolan, Jaffarabad and Khuzdar districts had been declared highly sensitive and Nasirabad, Jhal Magsi, Zhob and Lasbela sensitive.
He said personnel of the law-enforcement agencies, including the Frontier Corps, police and Levies, would be deployed around Imambargahs and on the routes of the Muharram processions, while the Pakistain Army troops would remain on standby and carry out surveillance by helicopters.
The Quetta commissioner said 200 beds in government hospitals and 40 ambulances would be ready to cope with any emergency.
The regional police chief said installation of security cameras on the routes of the processions had been completed. He said the roads leading to the routes and markets would also be closed on the 7th, 9th and 10th of Muharram.