Two FC officials kidnapped, two injured in Nasirabad district

The Baloch Hal News

QUETTA: Two personnel of the Frontier Corps (FC) were injured and two others were kidnapped by unidentified persons who attacked a check post in Nasirabad district on Thursday.

Murtaza Baig, a spokesman of the Frontier Corps (FC), confirmed with the Baloch Hal that the FC check post had come under attack in Mir Hassan Police Station area of Nasirabad district in the early hours of Thursday. The attackers used automatic weapons to attack the check post. As a result, two personnel of the Frontier Corps, who were identified as Mohammad Imran and Mohammad Sharif, were injured and two others, Jamil Ahmed and Khan Ahmed, were supposedly kidnapped by the attackers and taken to an unknown location.

“The injured FC personnel are currently under treatment while a search operation has begun for the recovery of the kidnapped personnel,” said the FC spokesman.

It was learnt the four FC personnel had been deployed to guard a gas pipeline that passed from the area in order to protect it from the attack of Baloch nationalists fighting for maximum autonomy and control on resources of Balochistan.

The FC spokesman said that forces had defused a landmine at RD418 locality which had been laid on the road. “It could cause huge damage to human lives if FC had not defused the mine on the right time as it had been laid at a public place,” said the spokesman.

No group has accepted responsibility for the attack on the FC check post and kidnapping the recruits of the federal paramilitary force. Last year, the Baloch Republican Army (BRA), a shadowy organization, had kidnapped 22 policemen from the same area. All of them were killed by their captors.

When asked about the recent statement of Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Mohammad Aslam Raisani that the Frontier Corps had established a parallel government in Balochistan against the provincial government, the spokesman refused the impression. He said that the FC had been deployed on the request of the provincial government. It was unreasonable on the part of the chief minister to publicly speak against the FC even though an understanding had been reached between the provincial government and the FC for the maintenance of law and order in Quetta city.

“The FC will pull out the next day if the chief minister makes such an announcement that we are no longer required,” said the spokesman