US EditionSeparatists kill 21 including civilians in multiple attacks in Pakistan
- On Saturday, January 31, 2026, coordinated gun-and-suicide attacks struck multiple sites across Balochistan province, killing at least 10 security officials while security forces eliminated 37 militants.
- Balochistan province has long been the site of a separatist insurgency, and Baloch separatist groups and Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan have intensified attacks in recent months.
- Authorities reported that militants attacked a Mastung prison, freeing more than 30 inmates, while police in Gwadar, Balochistan, said 11 civilians including three women and three children were killed and train services were suspended.
- The government declared an emergency at all national hospitals and officials said forces foiled coordinated attacks in 12 locations while the deputy commissioner of Nushki district was abducted.
- A senior military official said the attacks were 'coordinated but poorly executed' and reported attackers were in contact with handlers in Afghanistan, following a military claim that forces had killed 41 insurgents.
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At least 67 soldiers were killed on Saturday in front of the security forces in Balochistan, following a series of simultaneous attacks in several cities in the province, declared to Reuters four officers from security structures.
Belochian fighters have carried out coordinated firearms and suicide attacks in various places in Pakistan, and the situation is out of control in many places.
The offensive came the day after the Pakistani army announced it had killed 41 separatist rebels in Balochistan.
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Floyd Chronicle & TimesSeparatist attacks in Pakistan kill 21, dozens of militants dead
Separatists launched "coordinated" attacks across Pakistan's Balochistan province on Saturday, killing at least 10 security personnel and 11 civilians, an official said, the latest violence in the insurgency-hit southwestern region.
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