ISLAMABAD: Pakistani security forces killed 15 militants in a joint clearance operation after an overnight attack on a police post in the country’s southwestern Balochistan province left nine police officers dead, a provincial government spokesman said on Tuesday. The assault targeted a police post in the remote Ziarat district, where militants launched a pre-dawn attack that triggered a gunbattle. The attack marked the latest escalation in militant violence in Balochistan, where separatist insurgents and Islamist militants have stepped up attacks on security forces in recent years.

Authorities say dozens of militants overnight attacked a police post overnight in insurgency-hit southwestern Pakistan, triggering an intense gunbattle that killed nine police…

Dozens of militants attacked a police post overnight in southwestern Pakistan, triggering an intense gunbattle that killed nine police officers and wounded

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani security forces killed 15 militants in a joint clearance operation after an overnight attack on a police post in the country’s southwestern Balochistan…

No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. However, suspicion is likely to fall on the outlawed Baloch Liberation Army (BLA). | World News

Shahid Rind, a spokesman for the Balochistan government, says 15 assailants killed in 'clearance operations'.

At least nine police officers have been killed, and several others are missing, after an attack by gunmen in Pakistan's south-western Balochistan province, police and local…

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Islamabad: At least nine policemen were killed in a terrorist attack at a police post in Pakistan's Balochistan province, officials said on Tuesday. The incident took place on…