ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s military said today it had killed 50 Islamist rebels along the border with neighbouring Afghanistan over four days, in a restive southwestern region home to key Chinese Belt and Road projects.
The rebels were killed in an operation started on Thursday, it said in a statement, in Balochistan, where both Islamist rebels and separatist insurgents demanding a bigger share of the province’s mineral wealth operate.
Reuters could not independently verify the toll.
Independent analysts and rebel groups say Pakistan’s army routinely exaggerates the death tolls of rebels, a charge the military rejects.