DERA GHAZI KHAN, March 4: The police have failed to find any clue to the culprits involved in sabotage activities in Dera Ghazi Khan despite their tall claims of coming close to saboteurs.

With highly sensitive installations, including the Atomic Energy Commission and OGDC, the district has become the most desirable place for the saboteurs. As of now, some five blasts have occurred in the district during the last five weeks.

However, Kot Chutta police registered a case against unidentified saboteurs under the Railway Act for blowing up a railway track on March 3. The saboteurs had blown up the railway track, some one kilometre away towards north of Kot Chutta railway station.

The Kot Chutta police said the blast took place at 8.50pm on March 3 while the DG Khan railway police told Dawn that they had been informed at 9.45pm. They further said that the railway line was blown up near 332 kilometre mark, close to the Kot Chutta railway station.

It was the fifth sabotage activity in the Dera Ghazi Khan district and the third in the limits of Kot Chutta police station. The first incident occurred on Jan 30, in which the railway track was detonated near Basti Lashari railway station, some 25kms from here towards north in the jurisdiction of Kot Mubarik police station.

The second blast took place on Feb 3 towards north of Kot Chutta railway station while the third sabotage incident occurred on Feb 5 in the jurisdiction of Taunsa police station in which Dhodak gas pipeline was blown up near Mangrotha.

The fourth and fifth sabotage incidents occurred on Feb 11 and March 3 in the limits of Kot Chutta police station, blowing up crude oil pipeline of PARCO and the railway track, respectively.

When contacted, Kot Chutta SHO Munawar Ahmed said that he along with his team members had interrogated the arrested suspects of the Bugtis and the Murris in Quetta, but could find no clue to the culprits behind the blast incidents.