Pakistani gas pipeline blown up, supply disrupted

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QUETTA, Pakistan April 1 (Reuters) - A bomb damaged a natural gas pipeline in Pakistan's insurgency-hit southwest on Friday, disrupting supplies but causing no casualties, officials said.

No one claimed responsibility for the attack on the underground pipe near Dadhar town in Baluchistan province but ethnic minority militants fighting for political and economic autonomy have in the past claimed such attacks.

Police official Ali Akbar told Reuters high explosives were used in the blast that left a six-foot (two metre) crater. Dadhar is 100 km (60 miles) southeast of the provincial capital, Quetta.

Amir Mohammad Dotani, an official of the state-run Sui Southern Gas Co. Ltd. distribution firm, said supplies were disrupted to nearby areas.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/ISL205864.htm

[physioex]

1. To be honest....

With the political unrest within Pakistan, I am surprised this didn't happen sooner.......

[Igel]

3. It has. This isn't a novel event. n/t

[bemildred]

2. Deja vu all over again.

Mushhead doesn't seem to have carried out his threat to
punish the Balochi's yet.