Two security personnel were killed in attacks in Balochistan.

QUETTA: Separate armed attacks in Balochistan on Sunday resulted in the martyrdom of two security officials and the injury of another.

In the first incident, a security official was killed and another was injured when armed men opened fire on a car near the Gumbaz neighborhood, near Nana Sahib Ziarat. Officials from Levies named the injured as Idris Khan and the deceased as Marhaba Khan.

Five passengers were in the car after watching a football game when the attackers ambushed them, according to officials. Three backseat passengers made it out unscathed.

The victims were taken right away to Duki Civil Hospital, where the injured party was then sent to Quetta for more care.


Authorities have started a search to find the perpetrators because they believe personal animosity may have been the driving force behind the attack.

Abdul Hakeem Ashayzai, a Frontier Corps (FC) soldier, was shot dead in Chaman in a different incident.

At the Chaman Master Plan location, he was critically wounded by indiscriminate fire by terrorists riding motorcycles, according to officials.

The body was moved by police to Chaman's District Headquarters Hospital. The soldier died instantly after being shot many times, according to officials.

The body was given to his relatives once the medico-legal procedures were finished.

No one or group immediately took credit for the attack, but police have described the murder of the FC soldier as a targeted killing. Investigations are still under progress.


The strikes followed a day earlier when 22 security officers accepted martyrdom and 23 terrorists were slain in significant counterterrorism operations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Dera Ismail Khan and Balochistan's Harnai and Kalat districts.

Four martyrs are buried

On Sunday, four security men who lost their lives in the gunfight in Mangochar, Kalat, were buried in various parts of Nasirabad Division with full military honors.

Six Balochistani security personnel were among the 18 killed in the Mangochar attack; the other members came from Sindh, Punjab, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Senior civil and military leaders, including Commander 12 Corps Lt Gen Rahat Naseem Ahmed Khan, Chief Minister Sarfraz Bugti, Balochistan Governor Sheikh Jaffar Khan Mandokhail, and Chief of Army Staff Gen Asim Munir, attended their burial prayers.

Commandants of the 53 and 75 Wings, Assistant Commissioner Sohbatpur, tribal elders, and several people attended the funeral prayers for the three martyrs, Zamir Khan Lashari, Manjhi Khan, and Sultan Khan Jamali, which were held in Manjhipur and Sohbatpur.

Mohammad Naeem, another soldier who was martyred, was buried at Gandakha's Mir Naseer Muhammad Sobdarani village in the Usta Muhammad area. His funeral was attended by high-ranking officials, including police officers and the deputy commissioner of Usta Muhammad.

In remembrance of their sacrifices, FC soldiers gave a gun salute, and all four martyrs were buried with full military honors.

CTD files a case.

Officials stated that the bodies of the martyred soldiers and a civilian were sent to Balochistan after fulfilling legal requirements. Chaman owned the martyrs.

Unknown gunmen assaulted a car with a green license plate, which is typically used by government vehicles, close to the Daraban Grid Station on the N-50 Highway.

The four Levies employees and their driver were immediately killed by the attackers' indiscriminate fire. After the assault, the car caught fire.

An alert was issued right away because one of the Levies staff members was communicating with his family at the time of the assault. A sizable number of Dera Ismail Khan police arrived quickly after learning about the incident, blocked off the area, and began a search and rescue mission.