Summary At least six militants were killed in encounter with FC during search operation in Kalat on Sunday.
KALAT (Dunya News) – According to details, Frontier Corps (FC) and other law enforcement agencies conducted a search operation in Johan area of Kalat on Sunday on a tip-off that militants of a banned outfit are present in the area.
The militants present in the area opened fire at the personnel of law enforcement agencies who retaliated as a result six militants were killed while two of their accomplices were arrested.
According to FC officials, automatic weapons were used by the militants in exchange of fire with the searching party. A huge cache of weapons was also recovered from the possession of dead militants.
Earlier in the day, four people were killed and 12 others sustained injuries when an Improvised Explosives Device (IED) blasted near a railway track in Dasht, area near Mastung in Balochistan.
According to initial details, the explosion took place when Quetta-Rawalpindi Jaffar Express was passing, claiming lives of four passengers and injuring 12 people.
The injured were at once shifted to Civil Hospital Quetta and Bolan Medical Complex Hospital for medical assistance whereas the hospital staff has also declared emergency in the hospitals.
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The Pakistani military has vowed to crush the insurgency and assured China of security for a planned China-Pakistan economic corridor from the Baluchistan port of Gwadar up to the Chinese border in northern Pakistan.
Pakistani security forces have been battling militants for over a decade following the late 2001 US-led invasion of Afghanistan.
