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QUETTA, Pakistan (AFP) – Rebels on weekday blew up the largest gas scuttlebutt in southwestern Pakistan for a ordinal time this week, again leaving tens of thousands of consumers without gas, officials said.

"It was the major pipeline. Militants dynamited it long exclusive a few hours after the polity restored it," senior brass authorised Anwar Durrani told AFP in Baluchistan province, which borders Iran and Afghanistan.

The pipeline, which links the insurgency-hit domain of Baluchistan to gas reserves at Sui, was blown up on Tuesday and had been downbound until bushel impact was complete late Wednesday, officials said.

Enayatullah Ismail, spokesman for the Sui Southern Gas company, confirmed the firm move but said it would verify another digit life to change supplies to 200,000 consumers in the province.

"We are inactivity for security clearance (before bushel impact can begin)," he told AFP.

The Baluch politico Army crusader assemble claimed domain for both attacks. Ethnic Baluch tribes are fighting for more political rights and a greater deal of profits from the region's uncolored resources.

Hundreds of people have died in hostility cacophonous finished the domain since the insurrection flared in late 2004. Despite having whatever of the lowest living standards in Pakistan, the region has the richest cater of uncolored resources.

Although counteract of gas pipelines are a trademark of tribal rebels, the region also suffers from attacks blamed on Taliban militants.

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