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One of the chief leaders of Terrorist Organization BLA(Balochistan Liberation Army) that is busy in terrorism in Balochistan Province of Pakistan with backing of anti-Pakistan elements was killed.
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QUETTA, Pakistan, Nov 21, 2007 (AFP) -Security forces killed the leader of a banned group blamed for a deadly insurgency in Pakistan's southwestern province of Baluchistan, a spokesman for the group said Wednesday.
Balach Marri, identified by Pakistani authorities as the leader of the Baluchistan Liberation Army, was killed in a military operation overnight, the group's spokesman Beeberg Baluch told reporters by telephone.
The Pakistani military and police were not immediately available to comment on the claim. A local television channel meanwhile said Marri had been killed in Afghanistan, not Pakistan.
Gas-rich Baluchistan has been in the grip of a three-year insurgency launched by ethnic Baluch rebels who want more political rights and a greater share of profits from the region's natural resources.
"Balach Marri was killed by Pakistani security forces in an operation in Kohlu district," Baluch said in a telephone call from an undisclosed location.
"He died along with several other colleagues."
Sources from the Marri tribe, to which the rebel leader belongs, also confirmed his death.
Hundreds of people have died in violence in the province since the insurgency flared in late 2004 but the bloodshed has tailed off since Bugti's death.
AFP
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QUETTA, Pakistan, Nov 21, 2007 (AFP) -Security forces killed the leader of a banned group blamed for a deadly insurgency in Pakistan's southwestern province of Baluchistan, a spokesman for the group said Wednesday.
Balach Marri, identified by Pakistani authorities as the leader of the Baluchistan Liberation Army, was killed in a military operation overnight, the group's spokesman Beeberg Baluch told reporters by telephone.
The Pakistani military and police were not immediately available to comment on the claim. A local television channel meanwhile said Marri had been killed in Afghanistan, not Pakistan.
Gas-rich Baluchistan has been in the grip of a three-year insurgency launched by ethnic Baluch rebels who want more political rights and a greater share of profits from the region's natural resources.
"Balach Marri was killed by Pakistani security forces in an operation in Kohlu district," Baluch said in a telephone call from an undisclosed location.
"He died along with several other colleagues."
Sources from the Marri tribe, to which the rebel leader belongs, also confirmed his death.
Hundreds of people have died in violence in the province since the insurgency flared in late 2004 but the bloodshed has tailed off since Bugti's death.
AFP