Ambulances carrying the bodies of police officers killed in a militant attack outside a hospital in Quetta, Pakistan, Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026. | Image Credit: AP
A total of 57 terrorists were killed after they attacked security forces, law enforcement agencies and civilians at 12 different locations in Pakistan’s Balochistan province, officials said on Saturday (Jan 31, 2026).
Ten security personnel were also killed in the operation from late night on Friday (January 30) to Saturday afternoon.
The operations come after Pakistani security forces killed 41 terrorists in two separate counter-terrorism operations in the province’s Panjgur and Harnai on Thursday (January 29) and Friday (January 30).
Balochistan government spokesperson Shahid Rind said that attacks were carried out in various places including Quetta, Gwadar, Makram, Hub, Chaman, Naseerabad in the province.
“These attacks targeted police, border guards and civilians in various locations between Friday and Saturday night,” Rind said by telephone. Mr Rind said terrorists killed a family of five, including a woman and three children, near Gwadar.
He said the identification of the dead terrorists was under process and it would be confirmed later whether they belonged to rebel groups only or joined the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) outfit.
He said the security forces were still continuing the clearance operation in the affected areas where the militants had fled after a heavy gunfight with the security forces and law enforcement agencies on Saturday (January 31) afternoon.
Federal Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi said that forces have foiled all terrorist attacks. He confirmed that 10 policemen and paramilitary Frontier Corps (FC) personnel were killed in the attack.
Terrorists had planted a large number of explosives on the railway track in Naseerabad district, which were later removed by the bomb disposal squad, he said.
Earlier on Friday (January 30, 2026), security forces killed 52 terrorists belonging to the Taliban in separate operations in three provinces, the army and officials said.
Six terrorists were killed in Punjab province early on Friday On Thursday, 41 Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) men, including a commander, were killed in two separate intelligence-based operations (IBOs) in Balochistan and five in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
Balochistan has seen an uptick in violence in recent years. Balochistan had an upward trend with casualties increasing from 787 to 956; An additional 169 deaths, about 22 percent higher than the previous year’s figures, data from the think tank Center for Research and Security Studies (CRSS) showed in the first week of January.
The Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies, an Islamabad-based think tank, predicted a 34% rise in terrorist attacks and violence in 2025, with 699 terrorist attacks recorded across the country during the year.
Published – January 31, 2026 08:53 pm IST
