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Pakistan says three militants killed as forces foil attack on Gwadar camp
Officials blamed a group they call 'Fitna al-Hindustan', Islamabad's label for Baloch separatists it says are backed by India, and said more suspects were surrounded near a hotel.
Key points
- Security forces killed three attackers at an empty construction company camp in Gwadar.
- No one else was hurt, but the attackers set fire to several trucks on a nearby road.
- Pakistan blamed 'Fitna al-Hindustan', a term it uses to accuse India of backing Baloch groups.
Pakistani security forces killed three militants who attacked an unoccupied construction company camp in the port city of Gwadar, officials in Balochistan said.
The camp was empty and no one else was hurt, officials said, but the attackers set fire to several trucks parked along a nearby road. Security sources said forces had also surrounded several other suspected militants near a hotel in the city and were working to stop another attempted attack. No further details of that operation had been released by Friday morning.
The Gwadar district administration and police said in a joint statement that law and order in the BP-250 area and its surroundings was under control. They rejected social media reports of attacks on security forces, intelligence agencies and their camps as baseless, and urged residents to rely only on official information.
Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi praised the security forces on X for thwarting the attack and for their professionalism in killing the attackers.
Officials said the three belonged to “Fitna al-Hindustan”, the name the Pakistani state has adopted for Balochistan-based separatist groups such as the Baloch Liberation Army. Islamabad uses the term to accuse India of sponsoring militancy in the province. Officials gave no details of any Indian link in this case, and India has not commented.
Gwadar, on the Arabian Sea, is a key hub of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and has seen repeated militant attacks. Earlier this month an army major was killed in a roadside bombing in the district.