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Friday, April 18, 2008

Two Pakistani soldiers killed by roadside bomb

ISLAMABAD - Two paramilitary soldiers were killed Friday in a roadside bombing in south-western Pakistan, officials said.
"It was a remote-controlled bomb that destroyed the vehicle of the paramilitary Frontier Corps," a local police official said.
"One soldier was also injured in the attack," added the official who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
The blast occurred near the town of Dera Bugti, about 300 kilometres south-east of Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province.
No one had accepted responsibility for the attack, but Baloch nationalists seeking autonomy and a greater share of the province's oil and gas wealth have carried out such attacks as part of their three-year guerrilla campaign against security forces.
The government of President Pervez Musharraf has used military and paramilitary forces to suppress the rebellion, but the new provincial government, made up Musharraf's rivals, has vowed to hold peace talks with the tribal insurgents.
"We should start the process of reconciliation so we may bring peace and prosperity to this federal unit, especially, and, on a larger scale, to the country," newly elected Balochistan Chief Minister Aslam Raisani told the local legislative assembly last week.

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