FACTBOX-Security developments in Pakistan, Feb 2
Wed, 2 Feb 2011 04:43 GMT
ISLAMABAD, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Pakistan at 0441 GMT on Wednesday.
* denotes new or updated items.
QUETTA - Suspected militants killed five policemen in a shootout in the volatile southwestern Baluchistan province early on Wednesday, police said.
Some 20 militants attacked the policemen travelling in a car who were heading towards the provincial capital, Quetta.
The suspected militants kidnapped a senior government official in another district of the province.
Ethnic Baluch separatists have been fighting a low-level insurgency for decades for more autonomy and control of the resources of the mineral-rich region bordering Afghanistan and Iran.
* PESHAWAR - Two people were killed and several wounded in a bombing in a market on the outskirts of the northwestern city of Peshawar, government officials said.
(Compiled by Zeeshan Haider; Editing by Michael Georgy)
(For more Reuters coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan, see: http://www.reuters.com/places/pakistan.
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