March, 12 2005	Saturday	1 Safar 1426

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QUETTA, March 11: A three-day meeting of border officials of Balochistan and the Iranian province of Sistan began in Chaghai on Friday.

A seven-member Iranian delegation earlier arrived in Chaghai for attending the meeting. District administration officials of Chaghai were representing the Balochistan government in the negotiations.

According to official sources, the meeting would discuss various issues, including steps to stop human and drug smuggling between the two countries.

“Border trade and other border affairs would also come under discussion at the three-day meeting,” the sources said and added that important decisions would be taken regarding these issue.

BLASTS: Four bomb blasts were reported from different parts of the province late Thursday night, with hundreds of phone lines disconnected when saboteurs blew up a telephone cabinet in the Kalat township.

An official of the Kalat police Station said that a telephone cabinet at Shahidan Chowk was blown up at around 10:40pm disconnecting hundreds of phone lines. He said that they had also detained a suspect for interrogation.

Another locally-made bomb with time device exploded damaging the boundary wall of a house of a local government department official in the Babu Muhallah. No casualty was reported

Two powerful blasts also rocked the provincial capital.

Police sources said that the first bomb went off at around 10:10pm in an open area near Jinnah town.

The second bomb went off in the same locality at 11:45pm. No damage to life or property was reported.