{"id":44433,"date":"2026-04-08T04:17:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T04:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=44433"},"modified":"2026-04-08T04:17:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T04:17:12","slug":"six-terrorists-killed-in-mastung-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=44433","title":{"rendered":"Six terrorists killed in Mastung operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2026\/04\/08081042b44586f.webp\" \/><\/p>\n<p>QUETTA: Security forces killed six suspected terrorists during a targeted operation in the Kirdgab area of Mastung district on Tuesday, security officials said.<\/p>\n<p>They said that security forces conducted the operation on the basis of intelligence regarding the presence of <em>Fitna al Hindustan<\/em> militants, who were attempting to block a highway.<\/p>\n<p><em>Fitna al Hindustan<\/em> is a term designated by the state for terrorist organisations in Balochistan.<\/p>\n<p>The security forces cordoned off the area and launched the operation, during which armed men opened fire on the troops. A heavy exchange of fire took place and continued for several hours, resulting in the killing of six suspected terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSix terrorists of <em>Fitna al Hindustan<\/em> have been killed in the exchange of fire during the operation,\u201d security officials said, adding that a large quantity of arms and ammunition was also seized.<\/p>\n<p>Officials added that some militants managed to escape into nearby mountains.<\/p>\n<p><em>Published in Dawn, April 8th, 2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1989684\/six-terrorists-killed-in-mastung-operation\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUETTA: Security forces killed six suspected terrorists during a targeted operation in the Kirdgab area of Mastung district on Tuesday, security officials said. They said that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertaonment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}