06-08-2006, 03:59 PM
<b>Harnai-Sibi train track blown up again</b>
<b>QUETTA: The Harnai-Sibi railway track was once again blown up on Wednesday by unknown armed men who used high-power explosive material. However, no loss of life was reported.</b>
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Provincial officials told The News that some unknown saboteurs had planted powerful explosive material in Sundhari area, some 25 kms away from Harnai. The explosive device went off with a big bang and damaged a big portion of the train track. Officials and Levies force have launched a probe.
Due to successive blasts on the railway track, the train service is already suspended for the last four months on the Sibi-Harnai section. Railway authorities in Sibi said due to security concerns, they could not start the repair work on the track so far.
Meanwhile, Balochistan Chief Minister Jam Muhammad Yousuf in a meeting on Wednesday directed the police, Levies force and other law-enforcement agencies to devise a comprehensive strategy within three days for maintaining law and order, as the attacks on national installations, railway tracks, highway robberies and kidnapping of children has assumed an alarming proportion in the province.
Jam Yousuf took serious notice of kidnapping of children in various localities of the provincial capital, and directed the Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) to take effective and immediate steps to recover the kidnapped children and arrest the kidnappers.
The meeting also took some important decisions about maintaining law and order in the province. Balochistan Home Minister Shoaib Nausherwani, Finance Minister Syed Ahsan Shah, Chief Secretary KB Rind and other senior officials of the police, Levies and other LEAs attended the meeting.
Agencies add: Unidentified miscreants fired at least eight rockets at the FC check post in Sangsela area of Khohlu distirct and Kahan area of Dera Bugti district on Wednesday. The rockets missed the target and landed outside the Check post, causing no loss of life or property.
Meanwhile, around 50 per cent repair work on the gas pipeline damaged by the explosion near Sui on Tuesday has been completed, while the remaining work would be completed in the next 15 hours and gas supply to Sindh and Punjab has been restored.
Unidentified men had blown up a 20-inch diameter gas pipeline with explosive material on Tuesday, suspending gas supply to Sindh and Punjab. Officials had assured that the damaged pipeline would be repaired in three days. However, due to untiring efforts of the PPL, half of the repair work has been completed.
A roughly three-foot section of the pipeline was ruptured in the explosion on Tuesday near Sui, DCO Dera Bugti Abdul Samad Lasi, said. Lasi blamed militant tribesmen for the blast. Lasi said supply from the well to the pumping plant had been restored. He denied a local news report that the explosion had disrupted the supply of gas to local consumers.
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