August 6, 2003	Wednesday	Jumadi-us-Sani 7, 1424

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SUKKUR, Aug 5: One of the Frontier Constabulary troops was killed while four others injured in an attack on an FC check-post on the Sindh-Balochistan border in the jurisdiction of the Bugti police of Jacobabad district on Monday night.

Unidentified assailants used rockets and hand grenades in the attack as a result FC sepoy Ehsanullah was killed on the spot and Hawaldars Amanullah, Zaheem Shah, Mohammad Jawed and Lance Naik Awal Saeed were injured.

FC personnel retaliated and the ensuing encounter lasted for an hour but the assailants managed to flee. Those injured were shifted to Jacobabad hospital while the body of the deceased was sent to his home town.

This was the second such attack in the area in which personnel of law enforcement agencies were targeted. Earlier, outlaws had attacked Rangers near RD-109, using rocket launchers and hand grenades. No one was injured while the outlaws had managed to flee to Balochistan.

It is believed that outlaws, belonging to Balochistan and with a majority of them Bugti tribesmen, are mounting a resistance against the presence of the FC and Rangers in the area.

The Rangers had recently conducted an-anti outlaw operation on the provincial border but the people say that not a single hardened outlaw was arrested during the month-long drive as they had fled prior to the operation.

They say that instead innocent people were arrested and declared to be outlaws.