{"id":28734,"date":"2025-08-12T23:36:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T17:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=28734"},"modified":"2025-08-12T23:36:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T17:51:35","slug":"militants-kill-9-pakistani-soldiers-in-balochistan-govt-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/militants-kill-9-pakistani-soldiers-in-balochistan-govt-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Militants kill 9 Pakistani soldiers in Balochistan: govt officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>At least nine Pakistani soldiers were killed when dozens of militants staged an attack in the country&#8217;s restive southwestern Balochistan province, government officials said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The attack on Monday happened the same day the US State Department listed the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) as a foreign terrorist organisation after a string of deadly assaults claimed by the group.<\/p>\n<p>A senior government official of Washuk district, where the assault took place, said dozens of militants attacked a police station and a border force compound.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The army was attacked by terrorists on their way to respond. The terrorists killed nine soldiers,&#8221; he told AFP on condition of anonymity as he was not authorised to speak to the media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There were around 40 to 50 terrorists on motorbikes who attacked government buildings and ransacked them,&#8221; said a senior official from the province&#8217;s interior department who asked not to be named, confirming to AFP that nine soldiers were killed.<\/p>\n<p>The officials said that six other soldiers were also wounded in the attack.\u00a0A senior official from the province&#8217;s interior department said the militants hurled hand grenades at the Frontier Corps compound in Basima city of Washuk district.<\/p>\n<p>No group has claimed the attack, but the BLA is the most active in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Washington had already listed the BLA under the less severe label of specially designated global terrorists, which targets financial resources, before toughening the ban on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The new step comes as US President Donald Trump increases contact with Pakistan, which was kept at arm&#8217;s length by his predecessor Joe Biden, whose administration resented Islamabad&#8217;s role in the two-decade war in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Baloch separatists and rights groups say the military&#8217;s heavy-handed response to the insurgency has included widespread enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least nine Pakistani soldiers were killed when dozens of militants staged an attack in the country&#8217;s restive southwestern Balochistan province, government officials said Tuesday. The attack on Monday happened the same day the US State Department listed the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) as a foreign terrorist organisation after a string of deadly assaults claimed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28734"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28734"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28737,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28734\/revisions\/28737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}