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Balochistan CM Announces Detainee Safeguards as Raid Kills Two Militants, One Surrenders

He couples a no‑concession stance on insurgency with steps meant to curb missing‑persons abuses.

Overview

  • Sarfraz Bugti detailed an intelligence-based raid in which two militants were killed, Jehanzaib surrendered, and another accomplice was taken alive.
  • Officials said the apprehended militant was recruiting in Dalbandin and supplying weapons, and one soldier was injured during the operation.
  • Bugti announced legal amendments requiring weekly medical check-ups for detainees and procedural safeguards meant to address missing-persons allegations.
  • He said the writ of the state would not be challenged, rejecting separatist acts such as replacing the national flag and warning that no parallel authority would be tolerated.
  • The chief minister dismissed claims that deprivation justifies violence, cited attempts at negotiations, condemned recent civilian targeting and road-blocking protests, and pledged to keep schools open to counter youth radicalization.