Gunmen kill five soldiers, one civilian in Khuzdar

Five off-duty soldiers and a civilian were killed on Sunday when unidentified gunmen on motorbikes opened fire on a car in Khuzdar, some 310km south of Quetta, the police and military said.
The military described the attack as an act of "terrorism" but said it had not been specifically aimed at the army.
The six were in a civilian car near the garrison city of Khuzdar, when three men armed with Kalashnikov rifles opened fire on them, local police said.
Five died at the scene and another died in hospital, a police spokesman said. The assailants fled on their motorbikes, he said.
Military spokesman Major General Shaukat Sultan said in Islamabad that the dead included five soldiers and one civilian. He said two other people, including a soldier, were injured in the attack.
"It was a normal act of terrorism and not really army specific," Sultan told AFP. "They were off-duty soldiers in their civilian dress," he said.
The Baloch National Army (BNA), a shadowy militant group, claimed responsibility for the attack.
A spokesman for the BNA, who identified himself as Azad Khan, telephoned several newspaper offices in Quetta, claiming that the attack was in response to a military operation on Baloch militants.
He vowed more such attacks if the crackdown continued.
Pakistan security forces launched a massive operation last week in the Turbat area, around 380km south of Khuzdar, following a similar attack in which two soldiers were killed.
Police blame Balochi nationalists for the frequent attacks on security forces and government installations.
The nationalists demand more control over the area's natural gas and mineral resources as well as political and economic rights.
They are also vehemently opposing government plans to build three military cantonments in the province, saying that the government should allocate funds for development instead.
Trouble has been brewing in Balochistan for the past several months. There has been a spate of rocket attacks and bombings in various cities and towns, specially targeting the natural gas supply pipelines.
Thousands of paramilitary and regular troops have been deployed in the remote areas to protect the country's biggest natural gas fields and other government installations, which are the main targets of militants.