Blasts kill at least 11 in southwestern Pakistan

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Security personnel stand beside the bodies of victims who died in a blast near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Chaman on September 18, 2025.
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Separate blasts in Pakistan’s Balochistan province killed at least 11 people, officials said on Friday (September 19, 2025).

Militancy has been rising in mineral-rich Balochistan, which sits on the border with Afghanistan and Iran, and it has been met with a sweeping counter-terrorism crackdown.

A suicide bomber drove an explosive-laden car into a convoy of paramilitary soldiers in Dasht, on Pakistan’s southwestern tip near Iran, on Thursday (September 18).

Two local government officials told AFP that three troops were among five people killed. The attack was claimed by separatist group the Baloch Liberation Army.

Another blast near an Afghan border crossing in the province killed six labourers on Thursday (September 18) night, local government official Imtiaz Ali Baloch told AFP.

Separatists have been fighting a decade-long insurgency against the Pakistan military with the aim of ending discrimination against the Baloch people.

Human rights groups say the crackdown has included rights abuses such as arbitrary detentions and arrests of local people.

Fifteen people were killed this month in a suicide bombing claimed by the Islamic State group at a political rally in the provincial capital Quetta.

Published – September 19, 2025 05:00 pm IST

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Security forces kill 5 militants in intel operations Pakistan’s violence-hit Balochistan province

admin — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 14:31:05 +0000

A bus with passengers sitting on the roof with belongings, drives past a damaged vehicle, a day after separatist militants conducted deadly attacks, in Bolan district of Pakistan’s restive province of Balochistan, Pakistan on August 27, 2024
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At least five terrorists of a banned militant group were killed and three were injured in ongoing intelligence-based operations in multiple districts in Balochistan following a string of terror attacks last weekend.

The security forces launched the operations after the banned Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) — a separatist outfit — claimed responsibility for carrying out at least four terror attacks across the restive province, killing about 50 persons, including 14 security forces.

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At least 21 militants were also gunned down in the attacks with one of them targeting 23 passengers belonging to the Punjab province who were offloaded from four trucks and gunned down in Musakhail district after being identified by their national ID cards.

The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement on Friday: “The security forces are conducting extensive intelligence-based operations (IBOs) to hunt down the perpetrators of these heinous acts.

“On the night [of] 29/30 August, in three separate IBOs in Kech, Panjgur, and Zhob district, five terrorists were sent to hell by the security forces, while three terrorists got injured during the intense fire exchange,” the ISPR said.

It added that the sanitisation operations would “continue until all perpetrators, facilitators, and abetters of these atrocious acts are brought to justice”.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif also visited Quetta for high-level meetings and vowed to crush the terror outfits while President Asif Ali Zardari said there would be a “complete elimination” of terrorism from the mineral-rich Balochistan province.

On August 19, the separatist militants killed the deputy commissioner of Panjgur district.

The Islamabad-based Centre for Research and Security Studies said there have been 1,524 violence-related fatalities and 1,463 injuries resulting from 789 terror attacks and counter-terror operations in 2023.

Islamabad has constantly called on the Taliban government in Kabul to stop the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan from using Afghan soil to launch attacks in Pakistan.

The Taliban administration has, however, denied the charges.

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Blasts kill at least 11 in southwestern Pakistan

Security forces kill 5 militants in intel operations Pakistan’s violence-hit Balochistan province