Overview
- Security forces responded to an attempted militant operation in Gwadar that began on Thursday and carried out clearance actions around a vacated construction camp, the Gabd border area and parts of Gwadar city.
- The military’s media wing updated the toll on Friday, reporting 10 militants killed including one woman and one civilian killed, and said operations concluded without losses to security personnel.
- Baloch militant outlets claimed the assault as “Operation Almas” and said they struck a Frontier Works Organisation (FWO) camp, but Pakistani authorities reject those claims and say the site was an empty construction camp.
- Officials say several civilian trucks were damaged or burned and some bystanders were injured in related incidents, and security forces have surrounded additional suspects at a hotel near the Gwadar Highway and at Gabd.
- The military framed the attackers as foreign‑backed proxies and said the action fits a wider rise in militant attacks in Balochistan, signaling continued counterterror operations and investigations in the region.