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Top Baloch rebel arrested
Pakistani security agencies yesterday arrested a top Baloch separatist commander along with his five colleagues after a brief shootout near the Iranian border in Balochistan, officials said.
- By Imtiaz Shah, Correspondent
- Published: 00:00 March 15, 2007
Karachi: Pakistani security agencies yesterday arrested a top Baloch separatist commander along with his five colleagues after a brief shootout near the Iranian border in Balochistan, officials said.
The paramilitary Frontier Corps arrested Wahid Bakhsh Qambar, a leader of the outlawed Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), from Tump town, 640km southwest of provincial capital Quetta.
"We raided a house in Tump on information that Qambar and his men were hiding there," said a paramilitary officer.
However, there were no reports of casualties.
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