Gunmen storm a camp in Pakistan’s southwest and kidnap 20 laborers
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Gunmen storm a camp in Pakistan’s southwest and kidnap 20 laborers

Associated Press  

QUETTA, Pakistan — Gunmen stormed a camp in Pakistan’s southwest and kidnapped 20 laborers, police said Sunday. The assistant commissioner of Musa Khel district, Dilraj Kalara, said the armed men entered the camp on Sunday morning, torching bulldozers and other machinery and seizing the men. On Sunday, Punjab’s Information and Culture Minister Azma Zahid Bokhari said authorities were deeply upset by the Saturday killings. “I demand the chief minister ensure the safety and security of people from Punjab and take stern action against those targeting them.” Muhammad Mubashir said eight members from his family had gone to Balochistan for work.

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6 Pakistani security personnel killed in a checkpoint attack
2 weeks, 2 days ago

6 Pakistani security personnel killed in a checkpoint attack

Associated Press  

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Armed men killed six Pakistani security personnel and wounded seven in a checkpoint attack in the country’s northwest, a police official said Saturday. The assault happened in Kurram district, where fierce sectarian fighting has killed at least 130 people during the past few weeks. Local official Saleem Khan said armed men attacked a Frontier Corps checkpoint in …

Gunmen storm a house and kill 7 workers in Pakistan’s southwest
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Gunmen storm a house and kill 7 workers in Pakistan’s southwest

Associated Press  

QUETTA, Pakistan — Gunmen stormed a house and killed seven laborers and wounded an eighth in Pakistan’s southwest Balochistan province, a police official said Saturday. There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but separatists in Balochistan have often killed workers and others from Punjab to force them to leave the southwest, which for years has been rocked by an insurgency …

Militants in Pakistan kill 9 troops in separate attacks in the northwest
3 months ago

Militants in Pakistan kill 9 troops in separate attacks in the northwest

Associated Press  

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Militants killed nine Pakistani troops in separate attacks in Pakistan’s northwest, security officials said Friday. Militants attacked a military post after midnight in the village of Misha, South Waziristan, killing six troops. In North Waziristan, militants attacked a patrol on Thursday, killing three security forces. Pakistan’s military issued a statement Friday about both attacks, but it gave …

Pakistan reels after militants pull passengers out of buses on major highway and shoot them dead
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Pakistan reels after militants pull passengers out of buses on major highway and shoot them dead

The Independent  

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Pakistan: 7 workers shot dead by unknown gunmen in Gwadar, CM vows revenge for 'open terrorism'
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Pakistan: 7 workers shot dead by unknown gunmen in Gwadar, CM vows revenge for 'open terrorism'

India TV News  

Quetta: In a harrowing incident, seven labourers were shot dead in Pakistan's Balochistan province and one other injured on Thursday by unknown gunmen while they were sleeping in their residential quarters in Surbandar, Gwadar, according to Dawn. Gwadar Police Station Station House Officer Mohsin Ali told Geo News that terrorists attacked residential quarters near Fish Harbour Jetty in Sarband, Gwadar …

Pakistani police search for gunmen who abducted bus passengers and killed 11 in the southwest
8 months, 1 week ago

Pakistani police search for gunmen who abducted bus passengers and killed 11 in the southwest

Associated Press  

QUETTA, Pakistan — Pakistani police searched for gunmen who killed nine people after abducting them from a bus on a highway in the country’s southwest. Earlier Saturday, deputy commissioner of police Habibullah Mosakhail said the gunmen had set up a blockade, then stopped the bus and went through the passengers’ ID cards. We didn’t know if those people were alive …

7 soldiers killed in a suicide truck bombing and shootout in northwest Pakistan
9 months, 1 week ago

7 soldiers killed in a suicide truck bombing and shootout in northwest Pakistan

Associated Press  

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden truck into a sprawling military post in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, the military and security officials said. Troops responding to the attack in North Waziristan, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province that borders Afghanistan, killed six more attackers, some of whom were wearing suicide vests, the military said. A clearance operation …

Pakistani troops kill 22 insurgents in southwest after coordinated attacks over Iran strikes
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Pakistani troops kill 22 insurgents in southwest after coordinated attacks over Iran strikes

Associated Press  

QUETTA, Pakistan — Pakistani security forces killed 22 insurgents this week in an operation against Baloch separatists, who had launched attacks with suicide bombers and gunmen in retaliation for Pakistani strikes on insurgent hideouts in Iran in January, officials said Thursday. Four security forces and two civilians died when insurgents launched rocket attacks before dawn on Monday on security facilities …

Pakistani Security Forces Kill 2 Militants After Attack on Chinese Convoy in Balochistan
1 year, 4 months ago

Pakistani Security Forces Kill 2 Militants After Attack on Chinese Convoy in Balochistan

News 18  

Two separatist militants were killed Sunday when they attacked a convoy carrying Chinese workers to a Beijing-financed port project in Pakistan’s Balochistan province, officials said. The Balochistan Liberation Army said Sunday two of its fighters died in a “self-sacrificing” attack on a convoy going to Gwadar port in Pakistan’s southwest. China’s consulate in Karachi said it had asked Pakistan to …

Pakistan troops search for attackers after 6 soldiers killed
1 year, 11 months ago

Pakistan troops search for attackers after 6 soldiers killed

Associated Press  

QUETTA, Pakistan — Pakistani forces on Monday expanded their search for the perpetrators behind multiple attacks that killed six troops and wounded 17 civilians in a restive southwestern province the previous day. Earlier, the military in a statement said five soldiers, including an army captain, were killed when a roadside bomb exploded near a security forces’ vehicle during a clearance …

Pakistani forces gun down 9 members of Baloch Republican Army
2 years ago

Pakistani forces gun down 9 members of Baloch Republican Army

India Today  

Pakistan’s security forces killed nine members of the outlawed outfit Baloch Republican Army during a raid in their hideout in the country’s restive Balochistan province, the army’s media wing said on Saturday. The security forces conducted a raid in Kohlu district in Balochistan province after receiving a tip-off that members of the outfit were holed up in the area, the …

4 terrorists, 1 soldier killed in attacks on security posts in Pakistan's Balochistan
2 years, 10 months ago

4 terrorists, 1 soldier killed in attacks on security posts in Pakistan's Balochistan

India Today  

Armed assailants attacked two security forces’ camps in Pakistan's restive southwestern Balochistan province, triggering an intense exchange of fire in which at least four terrorists and a soldier were killed, the military’s media wing said. In Panjgur, the terrorists tried to enter a security forces' camp from two locations while in Noshki they attempted to get into a Frontier Corps …

Pakistan: Gunmen attack car carrying Chinese workers in Karachi, one injured
3 years, 4 months ago

Pakistan: Gunmen attack car carrying Chinese workers in Karachi, one injured

India TV News  

Gunmen riding on a motorcycle fired into a car carrying two Chinese factory workers in Pakistan's port city of Karachi on Wednesday, wounding one of them before fleeing the scene, a rescue official and police said. The motive behind the attack was not immediately clear, and senior officer Javed Akbar said police were still investigating. The incident comes weeks after …

Two Soldiers Killed, Three Wounded in Blast in Southwest Pakistan
3 years, 5 months ago

Two Soldiers Killed, Three Wounded in Blast in Southwest Pakistan

News 18  

Two Pakistani military officials were killed and three wounded when a bomb blew up their vehicle in an area of southwestern Pakistan where separatist insurgents operate, officials said on Thursday. Pakistan has accused India of backing the separatists from neighbouring Afghanistan and the Pakistani military appeared to allude to Indian involvement in the latest attack. The bomb attack in Balochistan …

Pakistan says soldier, 4 militants killed in border shootout
4 years, 1 month ago

Pakistan says soldier, 4 militants killed in border shootout

Associated Press  

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s military said a soldier and four militants were killed Sunday in a shootout during a raid near the border with Afghanistan. Separately, in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, a Pakistani official said Indian cross-border firing killed a 7-year-old girl and wounded 10 villagers. Umar Azam, the deputy commissioner of Kotli district in Pakistani-administered Kashmir, said Pakistani …

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