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Business Insider
April 28, 2018
Six police were killed and 15 members of the security forces wounded in those bombings, raising fears over fragile security in Baluchistan province. ... Hazaras are a mainly Shi'ite Muslim community and are frequently targeted by Taliban, Islamic State, and other Sunni Muslim militant groups for their religious beliefs in bothÃâà...
Fair Observer
April 27, 2018
Six policemen and paramilitary soldiers were killed and 15 others wounded in the attacks this week in the Baluchistan capital of Quetta, which saw three suicide bombers execute the assault. Earlier this month, militants in Baluchistan killed six members of Pakistan's tiny Christian community (four of themÃâà...
Daily Times
April 26, 2018
Outright hostilities and militant activity in Baluchistan only really emerged in the 1990s, following the assumption of power in Afghanistan by the Taliban regime. The Taliban provided sanctuary to the most wanted Sunni militants from Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) including such prominent leaders as Riaz BasraÃâà...
Asharq Al-awsat English
April 18, 2018
The IRGC said four of its members were killed in the Baluchistan province, while the Jaish al-Adl group (Army of Justice), which carried out the attack, put the toll at eight. ... The province in southeastern Iran has long been plagued by unrest from both drug smuggling gangs and separatist militants.
Asharq Al-awsat English
April 17, 2018
The IRGC said four of its members were killed in the Baluchistan province, while the Jaish al-Adl group (Army of Justice), which carried out the attack, put the toll at eight. ... The province in southeastern Iran has long been plagued by unrest from both drug smuggling gangs and separatist militants.
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
April 17, 2018
Three members of Iran's security forces have been killed by suspected militants in an attack along the country's border with Pakistan, Iran's state news agency IRNA says. An Iranian police officer was shot dead in an attack on a border post in the border city of Mirjaveh in Sistan-Baluchistan Province on AprilÃâà...
Daily Times
April 6, 2018
Security and law enforcement agencies conducted 7 operational strikes against militants in March 2018, 3 in Baluchistan, 2 in FATA and as many others in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. These actions killed 9 militants and claimed the lives of 2 FC men. A total of 6 armed clashes and encounters between securityÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
April 2, 2018
Quetta, Pakistan (Reuters) - The militant group Islamic State on Tuesday claimed responsibility for killing four members of a Christian family in ... A statement issued by the group claimed that militants belonging to ISIS fired on the group of Christians as they were traveling in the city of Quetta, killing four onÃâà...
Gulf Today
March 1, 2018
He was en route to a prison to take militants who are on trial to court. Dasti was traveling in a ... Militant groups also operate there and often target security forces. Last month, militants opened fire on a paramilitary convoy in Baluchistan, killing at least six troops and wounding four others. A week before that,Ãâà...
ABC News
February 28, 2018
Militant groups also operate there and often target security forces. Last month, militants opened fire on a paramilitary convoy in Baluchistan, killing at least six troops and wounding four others. A week before that, a suicide bomber targeting a police truck in Pakistan killed six people and wounded 17.
Voice of America
February 22, 2018
Chinese officials have denied reports that they are in contact with separatist militants in Pakistan's restive Baluchistan province to secure tens of billions of dollars' worth of infrastructure projects planned for the area. A report in the Financial Times this week said that quiet talks between the two sides hadÃâà...
Kashmir Watch
February 15, 2018
The rejection letter clearly illustrates these allegations with reference to the “incidents of terrorism, violence and militant activities”. ... What he and his controller, Modi, both have to realize is that Baluchistan is not East Pakistan, moreover, unlike East Pakistan there's no separatist movement in Baluchistan.
ABC News
February 14, 2018
Militants riding on motorcycles opened fire at a vehicle carrying paramilitary forces in southwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing four troops before fleeing, police said. Hours later, the Taliban-linked Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Al-Almi militant group claimed responsibility for the attack in Quetta's SaryabÃâà...
The Jamestown Foundation
February 8, 2018
In May 2004, the Baluch Liberation Front (BLF) gunned down three Chinese port workers at Gwadar in Pakistan's Baluchistan province (The Nation, April ... By the end of that decade, however, Uighur militants were carrying out attacks in other parts of China too, including in Kunming and the capital BeijingÃâà...
The Telegraph
February 3, 2018
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir police have arrested two militants who had allegedly crossed the Wagah border with valid visas and received arms ... the duo admitted that they had undergone terrorist training in Pakistan along with a large number of Pakistani boys, most of them from Baluchistan and asÃâà...
DAWN.com
February 2, 2018
KARACHI: The Baloch militant organisations are no longer a threat to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), said Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan Yao Jing, adding that members of banned outfits were “not true Pakistanis”. In an interview to BBC Urdu, he sounded confident that Gwadar portÃâà...
TRT World
December 31, 1999
Both the suicide bombers died, he said on condition of anonymity because the army was due to issue an official statement. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks. Quetta is the capital city of the southwestern province of Baluchistan, which has been plagued by violence. Militants linked toÃâà...
