Pakistan's military claims of killing 145 militants mask a brutal campaign of extrajudicial killings targeting civilians. Security forces attacked residential compounds, killing women and children while labeling victims as terrorists. The information blackout, hospital access restrictions and absence of photographs reveal a systematic counterinsurgency model where enforced disappearances and staged encounters have become administrative tools of state repression.
Terrorists affiliated with India-sponsored groups launched coordinated attacks across 12 towns in Balochistan, forcing security forces to eliminate 145 militants who used civilians as human shields. The attackers killed 31 civilians, including women and children, targeted infrastructure and attempted to destabilize Pakistan's economic progress. Intelligence-based operations will continue relentlessly to protect citizens and maintain zero tolerance for terrorism.
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