Several militants’ hideouts were destroyed and heavy arms were recovered while three soldiers were wounded in the incident.The militants belonged to the outlawed Lashkar-e-Balochistan and Baloch Liberation Front.
The FC Special Wing, Awaran Militia and Panjgur Rifles took part in the operation in which a helicopter was also used. A spokesman of the Frontier Corps (FC) said that three hideouts of the militants and two vehicles were destroyed.
The FC said it launched an operation against the militants’ hideouts in the mountainous Panjgur district on Monday morning. “Ten militants were killed in heavy exchange of fire this morning,” said FC spokesman Wasay Khan.
The operation took place after Latif Johar, a member of the separatist Baloch Students Organisation (Azad), went on a hunger strike 11 days ago to demand the release of the group’s chairman and more than 100 detained members.
In the past three years, bodies of hundreds of members of Baloch political parties, student groups and poets have been discovered across the province, and many more are still missing.Baloch activists say the bodies are evidence that the army is pursuing a systematic ‘kill and dump’ campaign to crush the separatist movement — a charge the army has repeatedly denied.
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