Pakistan’s Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid has said that last night’s attacks in Noshki and Panjgur districts of Balochistan were foiled by the army and 15 militants were killed while four soldiers were killed.
In a video message on Thursday morning, Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid said: Also became ‘martyrs’.
He further said that “six terrorists were killed in Panjgur and from both places Panjgur and Noshki terrorists were pushed out.”
The Interior Minister said that security forces have cordoned off four or five militants in Panjgur while the Pakistan Army Public Relations (ISPR) said that 13 terrorists have been killed so far in these two attacks. Have done
ISPR has confirmed the deaths of seven military personnel. Four of them were killed in Noshki and three in Panjgur.
The ISPR also said that security forces had cordoned off four to five terrorists in Panjgur.
The military added that intelligence agencies had, in a preliminary investigation, uncovered links between the terrorists and their handlers in India and Afghanistan.
On the other hand, the Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan said in his tweet that “we salute our brave forces who foiled the terrorist attacks in Panjgur and Noshki.”
“The nation stands behind our security forces who are making great sacrifices for our protection,” he said.
The Pakistan Army Public Relations (ISPR) confirmed in a statement last night that militants had tried to attack security forces in Panjgur and Noshki in Balochistan, but the Pakistani military inflicted heavy casualties on the militants. Both attacks were successfully repulsed.
Earlier, officials told Media that a loud explosion was heard in Noshki district, about 140km from Quetta, near the Afghan border. Jahanzeb Sheikh, assistant commissioner of Noshki, told Media that the blast that took place near gate number two of Frontier Corps Noshki militia headquarters in the city center shook the whole city.
The assistant commissioner said that bullets had also hit the wall of his house so he had left his residence and moved to a safe place.
The Pakistan Army Public Relations (ISPR) confirmed in a statement last night that militants had tried to attack security forces in Panjgur and Noshki in Balochistan, but the Pakistani military inflicted heavy casualties on the militants. Both attacks were successfully repulsed.
The ISPR also said that four terrorists who attacked the FC headquarters were killed, while one soldier was killed and one officer was injured.
Noshki police station SHO Muhammad Khalid Badini had told Media that the wall of FC camp had collapsed due to the blast and the gate was also severely damaged. After the attack, loud gunfire started coming from inside and several explosions were heard one after the other.
He added that a person belonging to the minority community was also killed by a bullet coming from an unknown direction.
The banned Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) has claimed responsibility for the attacks in Panjgur and Noshki.
The Majeed Brigade is a suicide squad of the banned outfit, which had earlier attacked Chinese personnel, consulate and PC Hotel in Chaghi, Karachi.
The incidence of terrorism has increased in Balochistan in recent days. On January 25, 10 security personnel were killed in an attack on a check post in Dasht-e-Sabdan area of Kich district.
Four Levies and Aman Lashkar personnel were killed in two consecutive blasts in the Sui area of Dera Bugti on January 28, while a grenade attack in Jaffarabad on January 30 injured 17 people, including two security personnel.