Pipelines, pylon blown up in Pakistan

Local officials said two 16-inch diameter gas pipelines were blown up on Tuesday in the Pir Koh area of Balochistan’s Dera Bugti district, disrupting gas supplies to a gas purification center.

In another bombing, a 132-KV power transmission pylon was blown up near Balochistan’s Barkhan and Kholu districts, causing power cuts in most of the villages of the region.

No group has yet claimed responsibility for the bombings.

Also on Tuesday, a massive bomb was detonated at the main railway station in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore, leaving at least three people dead and more than two dozen others injured.

Pakistani media say over 35,000 Pakistanis have lost their lives in bombings and other militant attacks since 2001, when Pakistan entered an alliance with the US in the so-called war on terror.

Since late 2009, there has been a surge in militant attacks in Pakistan.

However, Balochistan has also been plagued by decades of a separatist struggle for an ethnic homeland in the impoverished but mineral-rich province, which supplies much of Pakistan’s natural gas.

Over the past few months, militants have destroyed dozens of gas pipelines and power towers in various parts of Balochistan.

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