Suspected rebels on Saturday blew up three natural gas pipelines in Balochistan, disrupting supplies to towns including Quetta, Pishin, Ziarat, Mastung and Kalat and other towns and villages along the route but causing no injuries, officials said.
Two SSGC pipelines were blown up in Mastung district, 28 kilometres south of Quetta early Saturday, a gas company official told AFP. The third pipeline was bombed in the Dera Bugti district which disrupted supplies to the Loti Gas plant, he said.
He said technical staff had been called in to repair the "badly damaged" pipelines so that supplies to thousands of consumers could be restored.
Separately two bombs attached to an electricity pylon but failed to bring down the line in Dasht area early Saturday, local police official Hamid Shakeel said.
Police defused 14 bombs attached to three other towers, he said.
Rebels also fired rockets and shot at paramilitary troops guarding the Pirkoh and Loti gas fields late Friday but there were no casualties, a security official said.
No one has claimed responsibility for the attacks.