Balochistan

Dera Murad Jamali: Four killed in attack on OGDCL convoy

Liaquat Ali Bugti targeted in Sui explosion.

Shezad Baloch March 11, 2011

QUETTA:

At least four people, including a Frontier Corps (FC) official and an employee of the Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL) were killed, while 18 others were injured near Dera Murad Jamali on Thursday after a convoy of paramilitary troops escorting OGDCL employees was attacked.

The assailants used a remote-controlled device for the explosion which was followed by intense firing. According to the police, around six kilogrammes of explosive materials were used in the blast. The device was attached to a motorbike parked near a fuel station on the national highway and was detonated when the convoy passed by.

Those killed were identified as FC personal Naimatullah, OGDCL employee Javed Iqbal, and two civilians named Nizamuddin Bhati and Mohammad Ishaq. Several motorbikes, rickshaws and shops were damaged as a result of the explosion.

“There was intense firing soon after the blast and many people received bullet wounds,” a witness said. The firing spread panic in Dera Murad Jamali, forcing people to shut their shops and run for shelter. The national highway connecting Sindh with Balochistan also remained closed after the incident, paralysing traffic for several hours.

Insurgent groups have carried out several attacks on OGDCL vehicles recently in Naseerabad division which shares its border with the unstable Bugti tribal territory.

Also on Thursday, Liaquat Bugti, son of a Member of National Assembly Ahmadan Bugti, narrowly escaped a remote-controlled explosion near Sui area of Dera Bugti. The blast left seven people, including two police personnel and a child injured, a district police officer said.

The explosion occurred after unidentified people planted a device in a motorbike and parked it outside a roadside hotel in Sui. The device was detonated when Liaquat Ali Bugti’s vehicle passed through the area.

Spokesperson for the banned outfit Baloch Republican Army, Sarbaz Baloch, calling from an unspecified location claimed responsibility for the attacks in Dera Murad Jamali and Sui. He said that his organisation will continue to carry out such attacks.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 11^th, 2011.

COMMENTS (14)

Hamza Baloch | 13 years ago | Reply @Hamza: You are funny! It seems you have used up all your english and bit further, NUTCASE! Just to put the facts straight, No one is asking you for Independence, we have unilaterally declared Baluchistan is an Independent Sovereign nation. If you feel you are not comfortable with it, send in your punjabi punters and we will send them back to you, albeit in BODYBAGS. Keep may keep fooling yourself that Baluchistan will never get Independence, no one really cares about what a disgraced race of illiterate foolish punjabis thinks. Talking about the Pashtoons, they are our brothers who have been at the receiving end of your Stupid trades with your God - AMERICA. The Drones that the americans keep using against innocent pashtoons are nothing but your bombs which you keep using against the pashtoons in exchange for petty cash from the americans. Balochistan Zindabad Punjabistan Zindabhag!

Ameer Hamza | 13 years ago | Reply I got call yesterday from someone who witnessed first hand these events. That person is a Sindhi-Baloch and is a permanent resident of Dera. He informed me that there was an attack on FC convoy in which one man, presumably of the FC, was killed. In retaliation, FC men indiscrimately started firing towards the local people, who were running helter shelter to save their lives after the bomb blast. Instead of understanding the situation FC started firing and killing. One of the relatives of my friend, who related this incidence to me, was also shot dead inside his own shop which happens to be nearby the place of bomb attack. In total, 25 men were killed by FC men. Many more are injured. I think Tribune should carry out more research as the numbers of dead might as well increase. In a sad tone my friend told me that he did not object to the presence of FC in his province before this incident. But from now on he demands, like all residents of embattled province of Balochistan, that these killer FC men be brought to justice. But he also told me that he cannot imagine our crooked Army and Court officials to take a stand against FC. So the sufferers would remain the poor and the down trodden of Balochistan.

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Hamza | 13 years ago | Reply @AK: we cant give independence to khyber pakhtunkwa because it is afghani land. Though the tribes in 1947 wanted to join us and since they joined us they cant leave pakistan now. guys PAKISTAN is a multicultural country and i do agree that many punjabis are yes overpowering other ethnicities, but there will be change and more ethnicities will have more chance to prosper. Look at TURKEY there is more than 80 different ethnicities there and it is prospering so just give pakistan time its barely been 60 years post independence.

Hamza | 13 years ago | Reply @Hamza Baloch: Yr a nutjob who believes that his land is going to be free. Listen there is no way in hell that balochistan is going to be yours due to the fact that we bought the land from Oman in an international treaty. If you guys had an argument over the land it would have been in 1958 but now that pakistan has invested multibillion dollars in balochistan there is no way you can win a court case in the highest judicial system in the world ( if you guys want to take it that far ) as then it would be a crime internationally and economically. Plus your sharing the land it is not entirely yours, just like the sindhis did with muslims that came form india. The pashtuns in quetta now basically overpopulate the balochis and the only areas that you really have is the lower makran areas where there was never any infrastructure to link you guys to the rest of the country. But now there is so now those antipakistan people will be connected with the rest of pakistan and those areas will start developing. ps your still a nutjob who should thank these "punjabis" that you hate for letting you have an education in there school. Without them you wouldn't even know english

Hamza Baloch | 13 years ago | Reply @Javed Afridi: Time for a reality check! Baluchistan has already snatched away your right to move around in what you call Pakistan. The next time you say anything about Baluch people and Baluch leaders always remember that you can say as much as you want but that isnt going to change the fact that none of you Pseudo Punjabis will be allowed to come into our Country and if you still do not understand Lahore and Islamabad are not immune. I am sure you are aware that you owe a lot to us and you or your punjabi handlers will have to repay everything back with interest. Be it money or blood. Baluchistan Zindabad

Baloch | 13 years ago | Reply Kudos to you guy. Keep the tempo up

Javed Afridi | 13 years ago | Reply The entire Pakistan should rise to snatch rights of the Baluchistan from the ruling class followed by putting all those Baluch leaders behind the bars for lifetime, who used the miseries of Baluch people for their personal gains. Baluchistan Zindabad, Pakistan Zindabad.

AK | 13 years ago | Reply Guys - you have to give independence to Balochistan and Pakhtunkhwa. Pakistan seems to be on a path of ruin thanks to the antics of Punjabis, Sindhis and Mojahirs who are imposing their crony capitalism, thuggery, cultural imperialism on the rest of the region. This is destabilizing the region - not to mention ruining the indigenous culture and economy of Balochistan, Pakhtunkhwa.

wahab | 13 years ago | Reply Teachers are killed who are teaching Baloch students so that Balochistan develops, engineers , doctors are murdered? How do u expect to develop then?

wahab | 13 years ago | Reply @Khaliullah Bloach: Freedom from an area much smaller than your own size and which is the sole source of food for ur province? Are u insane or just on pay roll by RAW

Hamza | 13 years ago | Reply @Shamir Baloch: Your a disgusting piece of human for liking the death of a person doing their honorary job. People like you give islam a bad name. And there is now way balochistan will become independent there is more pashtuns in your capital quetta than their is balochis. Plus more balochis are becoming enculturised to basic pakistani traditions, and only the dumb old baloch people want to seperate from pakistan. PAKISTAN ZINDABAD

Khaliullah Bloach | 13 years ago | Reply Bloachistan Zindabad ,we want freedom from imperialistic Pakistan

Mastishhk | 13 years ago | Reply (((Balochistan gets only 260 megawatts of electricity against the total requirement of 250 megawatts due to closure of two power units in Quetta.))) If they get 260 MW when the demand is 250 MW...Wats the problem ?????

Shamir Baloch | 13 years ago | Reply Awesome! Next time make it slightly bigger, maybe like 1000 Times bigger and focus it directly at punjabi occupying army camps =) Great news. Balochistan Zindabad

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