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ISLAMABAD, Jan 21 (KUNA) -- Militants Thursday attacked a Frontier Corps
(FC) checkpost in Pakistans Southwestern district as the Chief Minister
accuses FC of running a parallel government in the countrys least-developed
province.
Suspected nationalist militants attacked an FC checkpost in Naseerabad
district of Baluchistan province, reported local media citing police sources.
The reports said that two FC personnel were critically wounded in the
attack, whereas, two have gone missing. It was not immediately clear whether
the two have been kidnapped by the militants.
The attack came as Baluchistan Chief Minister (CM), Nawab Aslam Raisani,
has accused the FC of running a parallel government in the province. In a
statement issued in Quetta on Wednesday, published here on Thursday, the chief
minister said that "the FC has established a government parallel to the
provincial government".
He urged the federal government to direct law-enforcement agencies in
Baluchistan to work for normalizing the situation and strengthening the
reconciliation process between the province and federal government.
Nationalist militants have been waging a low-level insurgency in the
province since decades. They have been demanding greater provincial autonomy
and increase in royalties for minerals extracted from their land.
In an effort to sort out differences, the federal government recently
introduced a Baluchistan package but the CM in his statement has also
criticized it saying there was nothing important in it. (end).
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