<> Occupied Balochistan: Five policemen have been killed in an overnight clash with unidentified gunmen in Balochistan on a
highway in the Mach area after the kidnapping of a top administration official
in the region.
According to a report by BBC world “Unknown gunmen
kidnapped the deputy commissioner of Jhal Magsi district, Shaukat Margzani, and
two guards when they were travelling in a vehicle. Balochistan has been at the
centre of a decade-long separatist insurgency.The dead in the overnight
clash included the head of the local Jafferabad police station, police
said.
In December, a suicide bomber tried to kill the chief minister of
Balochistan, blowing himself up near his convoy. At least one person died in the
blast but Chief Minister Nawab Muhammad Aslam Khan Raisani escaped harm as he
was in another vehicle. And earlier that month, provincial Governor Nawab
Zulfiqar Magsi had a lucky escape when his convoy was hit by a roadside bomb in
Kalat district”.The Baloch Liberation Army said it carried out the
attacks. Meerak Baloch a spokesperson of the Organisation said that BLA has
killed five police officials, one government spy and an official of FC in two
different incidents. He said 4 FC personnel have also been injured in a clash
with BLA fighters. He also claimed responsibility for taking hostage the Deputy
Commissioner of Jhal Magsi, a Trainee engineer Mohammad Nawab and five Levis
officials.
Talking to NNI Meerak Baloch said the hostages will be
investigated if they are found guilty of anti Baloch activities or killing of
innocent Baloch activists then they will also be killed.
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link: “The armed men were Baloch insurgents. They did not rob any
person and even spared Rs 800,000,” a senior official said after closely
observing the incidents. “They kidnappers detained me for several hours and
asked various questions,” one of the victims, Shahid said. Finally, he and his
family members were released unharmed and allowed to continue their travel.
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