Security & Provinces Correspondent

Bilal Rana

Stories by Bilal Rana

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Farmland with a small settlement and low hills in Nushki District, Balochistan

Pakistan forces retake Nushki from BLA after three-day battle, drones and helicopters used

Pakistan Armed Forces retook Nushki in Balochistan from BLA fighters on 4 February 2026 after a three-day battle, using drones and helicopters to end the siege.

Quetta at dusk seen across rooftops, with a rocky mountain ridge and low clouds behind the city

Pakistan / Politics & Governance

Pakistan says forces killed 145 militants after Balochistan attacks

Balochistan's chief minister says security forces killed 145 attackers in a 40-hour operation after coordinated gun and bomb attacks across the province killed 48 people.

Official portrait of Field Marshal Asim Munir in ceremonial uniform

Pakistan / Politics & Governance

Pakistan, Turkiye army chiefs hold defence cooperation talks

Field Marshal Asim Munir met Turkish General Staff chief Selcuk Bayraktaroglu at GHQ on 30 January 2026 to discuss regional security and defence cooperation.

Arid mountain landscape in Balochistan under a pale sky

Pakistan / Politics & Governance

Pakistan military kills 41 militants in Balochistan raids as BLA launches multi-district offensive

ISPR says 41 militants were killed in Panjgur and Harnai on 29 January; the BLA claimed a coordinated 'Herof' operation across Balochistan from 29 January to 5 February.

A view of the Malik Din Khell area of Tirah Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, showing scattered houses on a hillside

Pakistan / Politics & Governance

Govt rules out military operation in Tirah as residents leave

Defence Minister Khawaja Asif said on 27 January 2026 that no military operation was planned in Tirah Valley, where residents were leaving under a Rs4 billion provincial package.

Portrait of Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in a dark suit and tie

Pakistan / Politics & Governance

PM Shehbaz pushes expanded Pakistan-Myanmar cooperation in talks

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif told Myanmar's foreign minister on 27 January 2026 that Pakistan wants wider trade, education and people-to-people cooperation.

A street scene at Qureshi Morr in Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Pakistan / Politics & Governance

Dera Ismail Khan wedding suicide blast death toll rises to seven, attacker identified

KP police confirm suicide bomber killed at least seven and wounded 25 at a wedding near Qureshi Mor in Dera Ismail Khan on 23 January; attacker's head recovered from the scene.

Rescue workers dig through snow beside damaged structures in Chitral while an ambulance crew carries a stretcher, with an inset portrait of the rescued child.

Pakistan / Politics & Governance

Avalanche in Chitral kills nine, one child rescued alive

An avalanche in the Seregal area of Damil Arandu in Chitral killed nine members of one family and left a rescued child in medical care, officials said.

The Supreme Court of Pakistan building in Islamabad, a white structure with a wide colonnade and open plaza.

Pakistan / Politics & Governance

IHC grants Imaan Mazari, husband two-day protective bail

The Islamabad High Court granted lawyer Imaan Mazari and her husband, Hadi Ali Chattha, two-day protective bail in a terrorism and attempted murder case registered in 2025.

Locator map showing Sargodha district highlighted within Punjab province, Pakistan.

Pakistan / Politics & Governance

Truck plunges into dry canal in Sargodha amid dense fog, killing 14

Fourteen people, including six children, died when a mini-truck carrying a funeral party fell from a bridge into a dry canal in Sargodha's Kot Momin tehsil on 17 January 2026.

Locator map showing Gwadar district highlighted within Balochistan province, Pakistan.

Pakistan / Politics & Governance

Coach overturns on Makran Coastal Highway near Ormara, killing 10

Ten passengers, including a girl, died and more than a dozen were injured when a Karachi-to-Jiwani coach overturned at Hudd Goth near Ormara on 17 January 2026.

The fire-damaged exterior of Gul Plaza in Karachi, with a collapsed section of the building visible.

Pakistan / Politics & Governance

Gul Plaza fire kills multiple shoppers in Karachi as flames rage overnight

A late-evening fire at Gul Plaza on M.A. Jinnah Road in Karachi killed multiple shoppers overnight and exposed locked exits and AC-duct fire spread.