From Reuters:
QUETTA, Pakistan, March 23 – A bomb blew up a telephone call office in Pakistan’s troubled Baluchistan province on Thursday, killing the owner and wounding eight other people, police said.
A police official, who did not want to be identified, said tribal militants seeking greater provincial autonomy had planted a time-bomb in a shop housing the call office in Kohlu town in the southeast of the province.
The incident was the latest in a wave of rebel attacks in the southwestern province bordering Afghanistan and Iran. On Tuesday, a gas pipeline was blown up, while a landmine blast wounded four troops.
Baluch militants have waged a low-level insurgency for decades and have intensified attacks on government installations and infrastructure facilities, including pipelines and transport links, in recent months.
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