Pro-Osama force kills 13, wounds 21: bride, groom among dead

by Ahmar Mustikhan | February 3, 2009 at 07:49 am

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It's like "Don't cry for me Baluchistan"-- women, children, young old -- no one is being spared in the scorched earth policy..

Pakistan army appears to have gone berserk in the area-wise largest and resource-rich province where they have killed a Baluch bride and groom on their wedding day.

Pakistan said four people were killed, but the Asian Human Rights Commission, that has been monitoring human rights violations in the blood-soaked province, has said at least 13 people were killed.

Due to the ongoing military operations in Balochistan, members of the FC have been given the authority to shoot at sight, any person of suspicion, without further ado. Only a day before on February 2, some unknown persons, riding motorcycles had attacked a check post of the near Dera Bugti Town. It is reliably believed that the indiscriminate shooting at an innocent wedding party -- killing 13 and seriously injuring 21 persons -- was in retaliation of the previous day incident.

Most of the news from Baluchistan is strictly censored as many of the world's key news organization do not have sufficient staff posted in Quetta. An earlier rport had put the death toll at only four.

A bride and groom were among at least four people killed in a shootout at a wedding party in Pakistan's restive Baluchistan province, a local official said Tuesday.

The incident took place in Dashtgoran village, 18 kilometres (11 miles) east of Dera Bugti town in the gas-rich province bordering Afghanistan and Iran, and where a regional insurgency has killed hundreds since 2004.

The Frontier Constabulary responsible for the civilian deaths is the same Pakistani force that has helped the Taliban and Al Qaeda launch attacks on US and NATO soldiers in Afghanistan.

The Baluch allege Pakistan military and para-military forces, who expressly believe in "Jihad in the name of Allah", are sheltering Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar, among other international jihadists.

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