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Militants Clash With Security Forces Across Pakistan

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Eight people killed in three separate incidents in Balochistan and Karachi

Eight people including four security personnel have been killed in three separate clashes with militants in southwest Pakistan and Karachi, officials said on Tuesday.

In a major attack on Monday, militants ambushed a Frontier Corps convoy in Panjgur district of Balochistan province, killing three personnel including a lieutenant colonel and wounding three others. Nobody has so far claimed the attack in Panjgur, 520 kilometers southwest of Quetta, but a security official said it was presumably carried out by Baloch separatists.

In a separate incident, police in Karachi killed four suspected Pakistani Taliban militants in a shootout. “We have killed four militants including a cousin of the chief of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Maulvi Fazlullah in an exchange of fire,” said Rao Anwar Ahmed, a senior police official in Karachi. “We had raided a hideout in Malir area but it led to the shootout,” he said.

In another incident in Karachi, suspected militants killed a police official and wounded another when they raided a house to detain a suspect for an assassination attempt on an M.P., which took place on Saturday. Two people—a 10-year-old boy and a security guard—were killed in that attack.

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