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QUETTA, March 19: Three explosions rocked Quetta cantonment and Zhob on Friday, police said. According to police a locally made bomb exploded in a nullah along the Airport Road in the cantonment area. No casualty or damage was reported.
In Zhob, unknown people planted three dynamites with a timer near a bakery, two of which exploded while the bomb disposal staff defused one. Windowpanes of the bakery and other nearby buildings were smashed. No one was injured, the police said.
CURFEW ENDS: Curfew in the provincial capital will be lifted on Saturday morning. "There will be no curfew from Saturday morning," the Balochistan home department announced on Friday.
The curfew was imposed on March 2 after a terrorist attack on an Ashura procession claimed around 50 lives. Army was withdrawn from the city last week and Frontier Corps personnel were enforcing the curfew.
JWP condemns: The Jamhoori Watan Party on Thursday condemned the army operation in the tribal areas. In a meeting presided over by JWP Secretary-General Agha Shahid Bugti, the party alleged that the government had launched the operation at the behest of foreign powers.
