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The Latest Breaking News from Balochistan

Pakistan declares national emergency as flood toll nears 1,000

At least 937 people have died and 33 million ‘badly affected’ as Pakistan struggles to cope with devastating floods.

Al Jazeera

Pakistan's Balochistan province communication links snapped by floods

Already battered by flash floods, Pakistan’s Balochistan province lost communication with rest of the country after overnight rains as the South Asian nation struggles to cope with the humanitarian disaster, officials said on Friday.

Reuters

‘Left with nothing’: Record floods devastate Pakistan province

Tens of thousands are currently at the mercy of an exceptional monsoon season, which has wreaked havoc across Pakistan.

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Pakistan floods kill 580 and bring misery to millions

Government accused of inaction as downpours leave schools destroyed, homes ruined, crops failing and cholera on the rise

The Guardian - UK

Flash floods kill over 500 people in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Flash floods caused by abnormally heavy monsoon rains killed at least 549 people in Pakistan over the past month, with remote communities in the impoverished southwestern province of Balochistan among the worst hit, a government agency said.

Bangkok Post

Flash floods kill 550 in Pakistan in heaviest rains in decades

Flash floods caused by abnormally heavy monsoon rains killed at least 549 people in Pakistan over the past month, with remote communities in the impoverished southwestern province of Balochistan among the hardest hit, a government agency said.

Reuters

Pakistan insurgents claim downing army helicopter, killing six

Separatist insurgents in Pakistan's resource-rich Balochistan province said they shot down a military helicopter that went down during a flood relief operation on Monday, killing all six on board including a top army commander.

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‘It was too late’: Monsoon rains wreak havoc in remote Pakistan

Dozens of districts submerged by rains, killing 437 people since mid-June and forcing the evacuation of thousands.

Al Jazeera

Kidnapped Pakistan army officer found shot dead

A senior Pakistani army officer and his friend were found shot dead on Thursday, two days after militants kidnapped them in the restive southwest province of Balochistan, security officials said.

Reuters

Baloch women fear crackdown after Karachi suicide attack

Pakistan’s first female suicide bombing marks shift in nature of Baloch militancy

The Guardian - UK

VIDEO: Karachi Suicide Bomber Was Highly Educated Married Mum-of-Two

Shari Baloch, 30, became the first female suicide bomber of the Baloch Liberation Army when she blew herself up.

Zenger

Pakistan: Woman suicide bomber change in Baloch rebels’ strategy?

Shari Baloch blowing herself up to kill three Chinese nationals making analysts wonder if rebels are changing tactics.

Al Jazeera

Taliban, Tehran to Launch Talks to Contain Border Tensions

ran and the Taliban agreed on Tuesday to hold talks soon to contain border tensions, while the Iranian National Security Council denied reports of sending tanks and armored vehicles to borders. A state of alert was raised by the Taliban and Iran against the backdrop of skirmishes that took place…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Woman graduate student behind suicide attack at Pakistani university

A woman suicide bomber who killed three Chinese teachers in Pakistan was a teacher who had enrolled for a master's degree months before her attack, carried out on behalf of separatist insurgents, a Pakistani official said on Wednesday.

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Factbox-Who are the Pakistan separatists behind attack on Chinese citizens?

The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), which claimed a deadly attack on Chinese citizens in Karachi on Tuesday, is the most prominent of a number of separatist groups operating against the Pakistani state in the southwestern province of Balochistan.

France 24

Pakistan’s ‘good Taliban-bad Taliban’ strategy backfires, posing regional risks

For decades, Pakistan pursued a policy of supporting the Afghan Taliban while cracking down on the Pakistani Taliban, the Tehreek-i-Taliban (TTP). With the Taliban in power in Afghanistan, Islamabad may have won its “long game”. But its game of chicken may be backfiring with jihadists coming home to roost.

Reuters

Pakistan says it has killed 20 insurgents in three days of clashes

Twenty militants and nine soldiers were killed in recent days during insurgent attacks on two military bases in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province and the military's response, the military said on Saturday.

The Guardian - UK

At least 21 dead after Pakistan army clashes with militants for third day

Official says separatists’ assault timed to ‘sabotage’ prime minister Imran Khan’s visit to China

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Pakistani military conduct search for militants 38 hours after base attacks

Pakistani security forces were conducting search operations on Friday to flush out militants suspected of hiding near two military bases attacked by insurgents on Wednesday, which killed seven soldiers and 13 of their own, in the latest violence in the southwestern Balochistan province.

Al Jazeera

Pakistani forces battle gunmen after Balochistan checkpost raids

At least four soldiers and a civilian killed in two raids overnight on security posts in southwestern province.

Reuters

Attacks on Pakistan military bases kill seven soldiers, 13 insurgents- army

Insurgents armed with bombs and guns attacked two Pakistani military bases overnight, killing seven soldiers while losing 13 of their own men, the army said on Thursday, in the latest violence in the resource-rich southwestern Balochistan province where China is investing.

Al Jazeera

Pakistan army posts come under deadly attacks in Balochistan

Rebels attack two security posts in Balochistan province killing a soldier, the army said.

Dynamite News

Pakistan: Twin blasts in Balochistan's Dera Bugti district claim four lives

As many as four people were killed and eight others were injured in twin bomb blasts in Balochistan's Dera Bugti on Friday, a media report said on Saturday.

Al Jazeera

Several Pakistani soldiers killed in southwest checkpost attack

At least 10 soldiers killed in attack on security checkpost in the southwest province of Balochistan earlier this week.

The Times of India

Balochistan dust storm lowers temperature, causes haze over Mumbai

MUMBAI: A day after light rain, the city was layered with a sheet of dust all through Sunday because of occasional dust-raising winds.

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