Unknown assailants blew up an 18-inch diameter pipeline in Dera Bugti on Wednesday, suspending the supply of gas to Pir Koh and other areas of the district. Sources said that an explosive device had been planted in the Loti gas field. Following the incident, security forces cordoned off the area and started looking for the miscreants. Separately on Monday, suspected tribal rebels blew up a gas pipeline and two power pylons in Dera Bugti, said officials.
The gas pipeline and pylons were damaged when home-made bombs planted by the rebels exploded, said a security official, but there were no casualties. Balochistan Liberation Army leader Wadera Alam Khan Bugti claimed responsibility for Mondays attack. He aslo claimed responsibility for two other incidents in which three electricity poles in Dasht and a gas pipeline were blown up.
QUETTA: Late tribal chief Nawab Akbar Bugti's sons Talal Bugti and Jamil Bugti believe that "the government is planning to kill them to eliminate anti-government Bugtis forever", 
Armed tribesmen fighting the government in Dera Bugti have spurned official claims that tribal leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti and his allies have deserted their positions and taken refuge elsewhere. "The Nawab is still there and bravely fighting against forces engaged in constant bombing and shelling," said 
Helicopter gunships and ground troops attacked armed tribesmens hide-outs in Balochistan, killing 23 fighters and wounding 15 others, an official said on Sunday. The security forces destroyed seven terrorist training camps in operations in the Sangsilla and Bamboore areas of Dera Bugti district that began late on Saturday and continued until Sunday, said provincial government spokesman Abdur Raziq Bugti. He said that the information of militant deaths and injuries was based on intercepted communications between the rebels. The security forces also seized a cache of long-range rockets during the raids, Bugti said. As part of the governments plan to wipe out terrorists, operations were conducted and we succeeded in killing and rounding up a large number of Bugti loyalists, he said.