{"id":76189,"date":"2026-02-01T23:07:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T14:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/01\/pakistan-targets-balochistan-separatists-after-unprecedented-assaults"},"modified":"2026-02-01T23:07:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T14:07:54","slug":"pakistan-targets-balochistan-separatists-after-unprecedented-assaults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76189","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan targets Balochistan separatists after \u2018unprecedented\u2019 assaults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials say calm restored to province day after dozens killed in suicide and gun attacks in at least 10 cities<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s security forces have intensified their operations against separatist militants in Balochistan province who launched a large-scale assault on Saturday in which at least 31 civilians and 17 security personnel were killed.<\/p>\n<p>A day after the militants carried out suicide attacks in the heart of the province\u2019s capital, Quetta, the chief minister of the south-western region, Sarfraz Bugti, said 145 people he described as militants had been killed in 40 hours and that their bodies were in the custody of the authorities.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/01\/pakistan-targets-balochistan-separatists-after-unprecedented-assaults\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials say calm restored to province day after dozens killed in suicide and gun attacks in at least 10 citiesPakistan\u2019s security forces have intensified their operations against separatist militants in Balochistan province who launched a large-scale&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":425,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76190,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76189\/revisions\/76190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}