The TOI correspondent from Islamabad: Two police personnel and four militants were killed in an attack on a police check post in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province on Friday.
The attack came two days after the separatist Baloch Liberation Army ( BLA ) claimed the killing of seven passengers, who hailed from Pakistan’s Punjab province, on a highway in the restive province.
In the latest incident, authorities said that military men stormed a authorities check article in Shaban place, some 35 km from the municipal capital Quetta, early on Friday night, “killing two officers and injuring two people”, local police station in-charge Munir Khan said. ” The police force retaliated and killed four attackers”, Khan said, adding,” Search and clearance operations continued in the area as some terrorists fled to the nearby mountains”.
Pakistan has been struggling to suppress dissident problems in Balochistan, which shares a porous borders with Iran and Afghanistan.
According to official statistics, around 40 assaults against police in Balochistan in 2024 killed at least 25 police officials and injured 61 people. Difficulty fighters from the separatist clothing seized control of a little Khuzdar town next month from military forces. After hours of searching, Pakistani authorities finally recovered the city.
The secessionists accuse Pakistan’s national government and military of neglecting the local people while using the natural resources of mineral-rich Balochistan to develop elsewhere in the nation. The state has been the site of an insurrection for the last two decades, with hardliners usually attacking officers, security troops, and civilians they see as “outsiders” in the region. Additionally, the BLA targets Chinese hobbies in the troubled state.
