Three killed in Pak bomb blast

AFP
Thursday, November 02, 2006 17:42 IST
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QUETTA: A car bomb exploded on Thursday in front of a provincial police chief's office in Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta, killing three people including a policeman.

Several other people were injured when the moving car blew up outside the office of the police inspector general of Baluchistan province, of which Quetta is the capital, city police chief Suleman Sayed said.

Witnesses said the powerful blast destroyed the car and scattered human limbs across the tarmac.

"Three people including a man inside the car and a traffic police constable standing nearby were killed. A number of people were wounded," Sayed said.

Another police official said it was not clear whether it was a deliberately targeted suicide blast, an accidentally-triggered bomb being carried to another place or whether it was planted in the car without the driver knowing.

Suicide car bombings are almost unheard of in Quetta, despite its close proximity to insurgency-hit southern Afghanistan. Most violence here has been linked to tribal rebels.

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JWP deplores resignations of top leaders

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KARACHI: The Jamhori Watan Party (Sindh) on Wednesday reposed full confidence in the leadership of Brahamdag Bugti, Mir Aala Bugti and Agha Shahid Bugti, according to a JWP press release issued here.

An emergency meeting of JWP (Sindh), presided over by Shahzada Zafar, took cognizance of the situation that had emerged after the killing of JWP chief Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti and reposed confidence in the leadership of his heir Nawabzada Brahamdag Bugti besides Mir Aala Bugti and Agha Shahid Bugti. The meeting also discussed the situation after the resignation of some top JWP leaders.

Speaking on the occasion, JWP leader Shahzada Zafar Jan said the people who were elected to Senate and Balochistan’s provincial assembly after the late Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti had reposed confidence in them and issued party tickets to them, adding that they should now tender resignations from these forums or clarify why they failed to do so. He said resigning from JWP was tantamount to saying goodbye to the mission of late Akbar Bugti.

Zafar said: “The son of Nawab Bugti is very respectful for us but nobody should malign the party leadership”. After the resignations of central leadership, the situation had become very complicated and there was unrest among the cadre because of the absence of a party line, he said, adding: “Under such circumstances the central leadership should evolve a strategy”.

The meeting contacted Agha Shahid Bugti and attempts were also made to contact the son of the late Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti but in vain. It decided to suspend all organizational activities in Sindh due to the crisis and JWP activists were urged not to be influenced by nefarious propaganda of certain elements.


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Sindh’s share of water being diverted: PONM

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KARACHI: Qamar Bhatti, a central leader of Pakistan Oppressed Nations Movement (PONM), said on Wednesday that Sindh was being denied its share of

irrigation water and regretted that the federal government

was adamant on building more dams on River Indus despite the fact that the diversion of water has badly hurt the once mighty river.

Speaking at a rally in front of Karachi Press Club, he said the mega projects on River Indus would transform Sindh into a wasteland, thereby crippling its agrarian economy and rendering millions of farmers jobless. He said the people of Sindh would not permit anybody to usurp its rights and resist what he called anti-Sindhi projects.

He said if the government of Musharraf did not abandon controversial water projects, PONM would launch a resistance movement across the country.

Instead of providing solace to the people, he said, government agencies were arresting and torturing a large number of people from the impoverished provinces of Sindh and Balochistan.

He was of the view that the present government had launched an undeclared war against the people of smaller provinces. PONM would resist every move to cow down the people of smaller provinces, he vowed.

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Car bomb kills three in Pakistan

dpa German Press Agency
Published: Thursday November 2, 2006

Islamabad- A car bomb explosion killed three policemen and a passerby in Quetta, capital of Pakistan's restive Balochistan province, on Thursday evening. Media reports said the explosion took place outside the office of the city police chief.

Balochistan, which borders Afghanistan and Iran, has been in the throes of an uprising by Bugti tribesmen who had been blowing up power and gas transmission lines and other sabotage activities to demand rights over the natural resources of the province.

Their 80-year-old chief, Nawab Akbar Bugti, was killed in a military operation against his hideout last August. Since then the insurgency has lost some momentum but consolidated the Baloch nationalist forces.

Thursday's terrorist attack came on the heels of a government decision to hold a jirga, or assembly of tribal leaders, in Islamabad on November 8 but excluded the tribal leaders sympathetic to Nawab Bugtis' cause.

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