QUETTA, June 3: An action committee of the people affected by the Mirani dam in Kech district announced on Tuesday its plan for observing a token hunger strike from Wednesday in protest against government’s failure to compensate the affected people.
The chairman of the committee, Mr Chakar Rind, at a news conference said floods in June, 2007, caused losses in the Kech district, but despite promises, the government had failed to compensate the affected people. Although one year had passed the government had not taken any step to solve their problems, he added.
He warned that the affected people would hold protests if the government failed to fulfil commitment made to them.
Bid to blow up IG office foiled
QUETTA, June 3: Police foiled an attempt to blow up the offices of the inspector general of prisons department by defusing a powerful bomb planted near the department on Samungli road on Tuesday. According to sources, police acting on an anonymous tip-off rushed to the place along with bomb disposal personnel and after cordoning off the area defused the bomb.
“It was a locally-made bomb planted near a wall of the building,” a senior police officer said.
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