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Rockets kill one, gut historic buidling in Baluchistan

2013-06-15 911 Dailymotion

A rocket attack by unknown people killed a policeman on Saturday (June 15) and gutted an historic summer retreat used by Pakistan's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah in the resource-rich province of Baluchistan, only days after a new government vowed to end a guerrilla war there.<br /> <br />Three rocket propelled grenades slammed into the heritage Quaid Azam Residency in the hill town of Ziarat in the early hours of the morning, district commissioner Nadeem Tahir said. A policeman died and the ensuing blaze tore through the two-storey wooden building, damaging several other houses nearby.<br /> <br />A police official said it appeared that the rockets were fired from nearby mountains.<br /> <br />The vast province bordering Iran and Afghanistan contains largely unexplored copper and gold deposits but has suffered a long-running armed independence movement, and what rights groups call a campaign of forced disappearances by security forces.<br /> <br />Baluchistan supplies much of the natural gas feeding Pakistan's

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