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QUETTA: Miscreants on Saturday morning blew up a railway track in the Bakhtiarabad area of Balochistan's Sibi district.
Levies' sources told Dawn that a two-feet track was damaged when an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) was detonated. The IED was planted close to the railway track which was damaged when the explosion occurred.
Train services between Balochistan and other parts of the country were suspended after the blast and passenger trains were stopped at different locations owing to security reasons.
Levies and Frontier Corps personnel reached the spot to launch an investigation into the incident. Technical railway staff was also called to ensure immediate repair of the damaged portion of the track.
Last year in April, at least 17 people, two women and four children among them, were burned to death and over 45 were injured in a powerful explosion in a carriage of a Rawalpindi-bound train at a station in Sibi.
Know more: 17 burn to death in train blast at Sibi
The blast had taken place at a time when President Mamnoon Hussain was in Quetta on a two-day visit.
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Feb 07, 2015 12:03pm
Before asking for a referendum in Kashmir, I think it is Balochistan which needs a referendum. We should practice what we preach.......
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Feb 07, 2015 12:08pm
BLA and rest of the Bloch terrorist's hands are soaked in the blood of children and women from Bloahistan. Shame on such terror outfits and their international sponsors. Why not give them a lesson like Talibans. It is is about time.
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Feb 07, 2015 12:26pm
Indian backed terrorists of the BLA and BRA are going out of their way to disrupt the Chinese Presidents visit and stop development and investment in Baluchistan.
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Feb 07, 2015 01:12pm
@Mullah Deewana
Actually most Baluchis (including myself) know that the attacks in Baluchistan are by India backed terrorists. The BLA and BRA are Indian funded / armed proxies.
I am glad you recognise that the UN Resolution on Kashmir should be implemented though.
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Feb 07, 2015 01:30pm
@Mullah Deewana Leave it, they hv excuse for not doing so. Poor helpless freedom fighters.
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Feb 07, 2015 01:54pm
Balochi should be given freedom.
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Feb 07, 2015 02:02pm
Good day.
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Feb 07, 2015 02:09pm
Balochistan doesnt need any referendum, all balochis are proud pakistanis, nothing can be done if RAW sends miscreants across the border from afghanistan to do these cowardish acts
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Feb 07, 2015 02:17pm
Balochistan's Right to self determination should be respected and a plebiscite should be held. Their wishes and aspirations cannot be brutally supressed. The world community has failed.
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Feb 07, 2015 03:17pm
@Mullah Deewana You sound like the typical Indian who trespasses in our papers. Balochistan insurgency is Indian sponsored. Kashmir is indigenous freedom struggle. No comparison. Stop Indian decaded old atrocities in Kashmir.
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Feb 07, 2015 03:18pm
@ali yeah say that to Sindhi's.
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Feb 07, 2015 03:20pm
General Raheel, can you order Zarm e Azb in Baluchistan?
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Feb 07, 2015 03:25pm
@Mullah Deewana not only Balochistan but Sindh, NWFP also needs a referendum.
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Feb 07, 2015 03:26pm
@Pakistani Baluchistan wants "Azadi" from Pakistan.
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Feb 07, 2015 03:27pm
@ali Balochistan, Sindh, NWFP need referendum
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Feb 07, 2015 03:28pm
@Zahid Balochistan , Sindh, NWFP is also indigenous freedom struggle
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Feb 07, 2015 03:28pm
@free balochistan by the way Sindhi and Pakhtoon also want Freedom from Pakistan.
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Feb 07, 2015 03:42pm
To all the indians who come on here spewing out their anti-Pakistan rhetoric.
its time you put your own house in order. Baluchistan and Kashmir is an integral part of
Pakistan.
Just like California is an integral part of the USA.
you indians need to stop being jealous and start behaving like a good neighbor.
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Feb 07, 2015 03:46pm
@Zahid Can you do little google search and check when did Balcohistan movement started?(1948) Dawn didn't publish my earlier comment otherwise, I had already found the details for you.
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Feb 07, 2015 04:13pm
@Sharath Chandra Nice try. However, Kashmir is a UN recognised dispute between India and Pakistan, with security council resolutions outstanding. No such UN recognition exists for Balochistan's liberation. Just like your Khalistan, Nagaland etc etc.
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Feb 07, 2015 04:25pm
@Mullah Deewana
Plebiscite of Kashmir is pending in the UN and India needs to honour its commitment there. Terrorist activities of RAW duly facilitated by Indian consulates in Afghanistan will not help in diverting our resolve toward Kashmir. We will not like to ask India to first take care of the matters like: Khalistan, Junagardh & manavadar, Deccan, Assam, Nagaland, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Taripura, and Manipur etc. etc. etc. Stop this denial game and fake incidents to delay justice to the Kashmiris who are suffering for the last 67-1/2 years.
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Feb 07, 2015 04:31pm
@ali
No brother, we can minimise if not stop it completely. A ditch along the border is the answer, till it is made shoot all crossers of the border except entry points. Disallow Afghan-India trade through Pakistan till eradication of terrorism. Ensure all containers meant for Afghanistan cross our borders and carryout 100% screening of the containers.
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Feb 07, 2015 05:46pm
One of my distant cousin fell pray to the propaganda by so called Baloch nationalists regarding Baloch rights but after realizing the heinous agenda he left them, The Baloch terrorists killed him and blamed the Pakistani forces, majority of Balochs do not want independence its just an Indian propaganda like they did in east Pakistan. They are funding Baloch traitors from Afghanistan.
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Feb 07, 2015 05:50pm
Lollz and dese endins were freaking out at hizb ulmujahideen guys comments.
Anyways ihope the track is fixed soon
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Feb 08, 2015 11:42am
@Mir Baloch hold a free and fair referendum under UN monitoring and let the Balochis decide. Nawaz S can invite the UN by writing a letter to them.
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Feb 09, 2015 06:06pm
Day by day it seems to me the that Pakistan will be a "mini Soviet Russia" vey soon.
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