2013-12-08
By Archen Baloch
Balochistan - Eight Pakistani security
personnel have been reportedly killed in an ambush by Baloch freedom fighters
in Katrenz area of Mand, Balochistan on Sunday.
According to details the social media sources and
local sources reported that Baloch freedom fighter, also known as the
Sarmachars, have ambushed a convoy of Pakistani security forces when it was
when passing through Katrenz mountainous area of Mand town.
At least two vehicles have been completely destroyed
in the attack and more than 8 personnel have reportedly died and several others
have been wounded.
Meanwhile the Baloch Liberation Front (BLF) claimed in
a statement to media that it has carried out the attacks on occupying forces.
The BLF spokesperson Gwahram Baloch vowed to continue
such attack against Pakistani forces until their complete withdraws from
Balochistan.
The spokesperson of Pakistan army confirmed the rocket
attacks on a convoy of security forces in a statement to Pakistani media but
denied any casualties.
Separately, local sources reported a barrage of rocket
attacks on Mashkel town by Iranian Army on the arbitrary border between
Pakistan and Iran.
No fatalities have been reported until the filing of
this report.
However, People living on the border areas are highly
apprehensive of the tense situation and lamented that both Pakistan and Iran
have closed the border entrance points for local traders.
Last month an armed resistance organization Jash al
Adal (Army of Justice) carried out a fatal attack on Iranian forces killing at
least 16 personnel of Iranian revolutionary guards and abducting 4 others.
In response to the attack the Iranian guards hanged 16
Baloch political prisoners in ‘revenge execution’ in central prison of Zahedan.
The Jash al Adal on 4 December carried out another
attack in ‘Kuhag Askan’ region of Saravan Iranian occupied Balochistan and
claimed to have killed 30 Iranian soldiers.
Three members of the Jash namely Ziayee, Abdul Malik
Mollazada and Neyamatullah Tohidi also died in the gun battle between Iranian
forces and Sunni Baloch rebels.
The Jash claimed the attack was on response to the
killing of ‘innocent Baloch prisoners’ by Iran in Zahedan.
Since then Iranian forces have carried out several
attacks on towns and villages situated along the arbitrary borders between Iran
and Pakistan occupied Balochistan, a social media activist Banuk Noori Baloch
told this scribe.
She said that people living on the bordering areas are
suffering from economic hardship as theirs only source of income is the import
and export of good from both sides of the border. Given the tense situation and
insecurity, she said the unemployment is on rise.
