15 militants, nine police officers killed in Pakistan’s Balochistan province

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.

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