Overview
- Authorities updated the militant death toll to 177 after overnight raids, following coordinated attacks that officials say killed 31 civilians and 17 security personnel.
- Separatist fighters struck multiple districts including Quetta, Gwadar, Mastung and Noshki, targeting security installations and public sites with gunfire and attempted suicide bombings.
- Officials said some assailants wore civilian clothes to enter hospitals, schools, banks and markets and used civilians as human shields, with two attacks involving female attackers.
- Balochistan imposed a month-long Section 144 with bans on gatherings, weapons display and certain face coverings, while mobile internet and some transport services were curtailed as sanitisation operations continued.
- Pakistan’s government alleged Indian support and Afghan links for the attackers, claims rejected by New Delhi and Kabul, while the US condemned the violence and the BLA’s higher casualty and capture claims remained unverified.