Days after prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, visited China and granted the Chinese operational control of the Gwadar Port in Balochistan, a massive attack on a security checkpoint on July 27 killed ten personnel of the Coast Guards. The Baloch Liberation Front (B.L.F.), an underground armed group fighting for a free Balochistan, accepted responsibility for the attack and claimed that the assault had actually killed 25 personnel. The B.L.F. also took in its custody two more personnel of the Coast Guards. While the Balochistan government also confirmed the detention of two personnel in the custody of the Baloch insurgents, a spokesman for the B.L.F. said the two men would be treated as prisoners of war and they would be tried in the Baloch court. There are no fresh updates about the fate of the personnel held in B.L.F. custody.
Posted on: Sun, 04 Aug 2013 01:25:35 +0000
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