Separate blasts in Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province killed at least 11 people, officials said on Friday.<\/p>\n
Militancy has been rising in mineral-rich Balochistan, which sits on the border with Afghanistan and Iran, and it has been met with a sweeping counter-terrorism crackdown.<\/p>\n
A suicide bomber drove an explosive-laden car into a convoy of paramilitary soldiers in Dasht, on Pakistan’s southwestern tip near Iran, on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Two local government officials told AFP that three troops were among five people killed.<\/p>\n
The attack was claimed by separatist group the Baloch Liberation Army.<\/p>\n
Another blast near an Afghan border crossing in the province killed six laborers on Thursday night, local government official Imtiaz Ali Baloch told AFP.<\/p>\n
Separatists have been fighting a decade-long insurgency against the Pakistan military with the aim of ending discrimination against the Baloch people.<\/p>\n
Human rights groups say the crackdown has included rights abuses such as arbitrary detentions and arrests of local people.<\/p>\n
Fifteen people were killed this month in a suicide bombing claimed by ISIS at a political rally in the provincial capital Quetta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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