Army says 24 militants, four soldiers killed in two provinces
ISPR reports eight killed at Kolpur in Balochistan and 16 across North Waziristan, with a major and three other soldiers among the dead
Security forces killed 24 militants in operations across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan and lost four soldiers, one of them an officer, the army said on Saturday.
The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said the Balochistan operations were mounted around Kolpur, Kardagap and Nushki from Friday. On the night between Friday and Saturday, forces at Kolpur killed eight members of the group the government calls "Fitna al-Hindustan", a suicide bomber among them, and recovered a large cache of weapons and ammunition, according to the army account carried in a PTI dispatch by ThePrint.
The army said the militants attacked military vehicles on patrol with armed quadcopters. Major Omer Minhas Nasir and Havildar Muhammad Adnan Khan were killed.
Further operations in North Waziristan hit locations at Mir Ali, Datta Khel and the surrounding area. The ISPR said 12 militants were killed at Ali Khel and two each at Mir Ali and Datta Khel. Havildar Asmat Ali and Naik Aftab Ali were killed in that fighting.
Weapons and ammunition were recovered from the dead in both theatres, and the ISPR said the slain militants had been involved in numerous attacks, including the killing of civilians. The army described the operations as a major blow to the militant network.
The federal government last year designated all militant groups operating in Balochistan as "Fitna al-Hindustan", the term the army used again in Saturday's statement. For the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan it uses "Fitna al-Khawarij".
The Times of India reported the same combined toll of 24 militants and four soldiers, including an officer, in what it described as separate clashes in the two provinces.
How the reports differ
ThePrint carried a PTI dispatch with the army's breakdown: eight militants killed at Kolpur in Balochistan and 16 across North Waziristan, the names of the four soldiers, and the detail that armed quadcopters were used against patrol vehicles. The Times of India's report, as available, gave only the combined figure of 24 militants and four soldiers, and placed Balochistan first in its headline where ThePrint led with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
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