QUETTA: Baloch rebels attacked security forces overnight, killing at least 15 soldiers and wounding another 12 in clashes that raged for five hours, officials said Wednesday.
About two dozen gunmen attacked two posts in Margut, about 60 kilometres east of Quetta, capital of the insurgency-torn southwestern province of Balochistan. The soldiers were responsible for guarding coal mines, they said.
“About two dozen gunmen armed with light and heavy weapons attacked the Frontier Corps (paramilitary) posts and killed 15 soldiers,” a senior military official said.
He said another 12 soldiers were wounded in the assault.
Other security officials confirmed the casualties.
The assailants belonged to a Baloch militant group led by Harbiar Marri who is living in self exile in London, the official said.
Baloch rebels have been fighting since 2004 for political autonomy and a greater share of profits from Balochistan's wealth of natural oil, gas and mineral resources.
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@workforce: freedom from pakistan:
@Salman: Very good!!!! Pakistan's track record says 'Keep bickering and keep loosing'... First Bangladesh, now Baluchistan and Waziristan (more than half of Pakistan's territory!!) and then FATA..... We in India are cheering what you just did... Keep going fellas.. Non one from outside Pakistan is needed to 'balkanize' it.. You are quite capable of doing it yourself!!
@Salman: " ... With the blessings of Bhagwaan and kaalimaata Kashmir, Nagaland, .... "
As a dis-passionate observer of events taking place in the sub-continent, I can say that it is Pakistan which is fraying at the edges. You have no idea how dire the circumstances are in Baluchistan and here you are talking about another country.
With the blessings of Bhagwaan and kaalimaata Kashmir, Nagaland, assam , Manipur all will be liberated from tyranny of the country known as India
freedom from what?@Sri:
@Sri: agreed
@mentalisco:
buddy, unlike the kashmiri who need the punjabis (from pak) to fight their war the baloch are more than capable of fighting their own war. Therein lies the difference.;)
How unfortunate a country, it is, lost east Pakistan in 1971, on the brink of losing other parts only by repeating the same very mistakes over and over again. Will we ever learn from the past experience?
keep it up friends your Allah is with you
@Sri: what a stupid comment. Here we are, thinking to resolve it peacefully but then traitors like you have always existed.
@Sri
Yeah the Baloch rebels would be free from the burden of life. It is indeed on the horizon.
There is no freedom struggle from
its all struggle of Money which they are receiving in return from abroad
We need to change our regular security practices. In recent days more soldiers were killed guarding facilities in traditional bunkers. Strict practices with split bunkers locations needed to enable counter attack on criminals.
Nobody talks of these soldiers and nobody care too... If it was by NATO hells would break!!
freedom is on the horizon. Keep up the pressure..