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TURBAT: Unidentified armed men kidnapped a student from Turbat town of Kech district on Friday.

According to the details, Mukhtar Rauf, a resident of Turbat, was on his way to college from home when unidentified armed men held him on gunpoint and drove him away towards unknown location.

Police have registered a case against unknown kidnappers and conducting raids to recover kidnapped boy.

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KARACHI/GWADAR/TURBT: Two missing Baloch political activists resurfaced from Karachi on Saturday after being whisked away allegedly by the personnel of state intelligence agencies.

According to the details, Irshad Nasir, who had been “kidnapped” on October 13, 2010 from Shai Thump inTurbat District with his cousin Qambar Chakar of the Baloch Students Organization (BSO-Azad), safely returned home. He reappeared from Karachi the other day whereas the captors of his cousin, Qambar Chakar, killed and dumped in Padarak township of Turbat District on January 5 earlier this year.

Another missing Baloch activist Sameer Rasheed, who had been whisked away from Karachi on October 13, 2010 with another friend Yasir Haji Nasir, was also released yesterday by his unknown captors.

Sameer’s colleague, Yasir, had been killed and dumped in Murgab area by the people who whisked him away.

As both the missing Baloch persons reached their homes, family sources said they were exceedingly delighted to receive  their beloved members after disappearance for many months.

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TURBAT: One person was shot dead while another injured Friday in a firing incident took place in Shahi Tump area of Turbat, police confirmed.

According to police sources, Satar Buledi was way to bazaar when unidentified armed men opened fire on him.

As a result he died on the spot while Sabjal came in the firing range and got injured.

On being informed police rushed to the crime scene and shifted the body and injured to the nearby hospital.

Motive behind the killing could not be ascertained.

A case has been registered and police is looking into the matter.

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QUETTA: One person was gunned down in a firing incident which occurred here at Sami area of Turbat, Friday.

Police sources said that unidentified armed men sprayed Raza Shah with volley of bullets, killing him on the spot and escaped.

Body of deceased after the medico-formality was handed over to the heirs.

Police have registered a case and further investigation is underway.

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QUETTA: Baloch Liberation Front (BLF), an underground armed group struggling for the independence of Balochistan, has severely reacted to National Party’s decision to include drug baron Imamb Baksh Bizenjo alias Imama Bheel in the party.

Doda Baloch, a spokesman for the BLF, said National Party was working for the interests of the Pakistani establishment on a new front by providing shelter to all drug barons and child smugglers under its umbrella.

“BLF had been saying in the past that National Party was affiliated with the drug mafia. In the past, Hasil (Khan Bizenjo) and (Dr. Abdul) Malik used to cry that Imam (Bizenjo) was the establishment’s man. Now Imam’s joining of the National Party has proved the fact that National Party is working on the interests of the Establishment under the disguise of a Baloch nationalist party,” said the spokesman.

The BLF spokesman recalled that Imam Bizenjo had allegedly given Rs. 120 million to the establishment to carry out a military operation in Balochistan while a former District Nazim of Turbat, Maula Baksh Dashti of the National Party had issued numerous statements in the media in 2003 in support of the military operation. He also charged NP leader Jan Mohmmad Buledai, a former member of the Balochistan Assembly, of speaking against Baloch freedom fighters on the floor of the Balochistan Assembly

“We appeal to the Baloch people to bring these people with double standards to public accountability,” appealed the BLF spokesman.

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KECH: A Pashtun cloth vendor was killed on Tuesday by unidentified persons in Buleda area of Kech district for which the underground Baloch Liberation Froint (BLF) accepted responsibility.

According to the details, Abdul Sattar, son of Abdullah, who was reported to be a resident of Quetta, was killed by unknown attackers in Buleda area of Kech district. It was the first case of target killing of a Pashutn in Baloch areas. The BLF accepted responsibility for the killing saying that the slain person was working in the Baloch majority area as a spy.

Local sources said that cloth vendors had been warned in the past not to come in the streets and sneak inside the people’s houses under the excuse of selling clothes. Abdul Sattar used to sell clothes on his cycle while going to different parts of the town. The other sources said his killing could have been the outcome of a frustrated attempt of robbery. The local police did not give any reasons yet for the killing of the businessman. They said investigations were underway.

Pashtun businessmen in Turbat reacted angrily towards the killing of Abdul Sattar by shutting down their shops and protesting in public. They said such cases would undermine the Baloch-Pashtun relations as the murdered businessman was totally innocent.

Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Mohammad Aslam Raisani was the first to condemn the killing of Abdul Sattar in Buleda and called for brining the culprits to book.

By Our Correspondent

TURBAT: The entire Mekran region comprising of Turbat, Panjgur and Gwadar districts was plunged into stark darkness after a technical fault disrupted the power supply to major towns of Mekran from Iran on the eve of Eid.

Reports coming from Mekran confirm that a technical fault detected in the power supply that comes to Mekran from Iran occurred at Jaki Kor area of Iran which caused a massive power breakdown across Mekran region.

As a result of the power breakdown Turbat, Panjgur, Gwadar, Pasini, Hoshab and Sami remained in the grip of complete darkness from 16:00pm to 2:00am on Monday. The disruption of power supply causes serious problems for the local people during the Eid festivities as people continued to visit the homes of their relatives to greet them on Eid.

However, officials from concerned departments managed to restore the supply of power late in the wee hours of Tuesday morning.