QUETTA, PAKISTAN (AP) – Gunmen attacked a police post in Pakistan’s insurgency-hit southwestern Baluchistan province yesterday, triggering a shootout that killed two officers, police said, the latest sign of increasing violence in the country.
Government administrator Barkat Baloch said a search was underway for the assailants who fled after the attack in Mastung, a district in Baluchistan.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the shooting, but previous such attacks have been blamed on Baluch separatists and extremist militants who have a strong presence in the province and elsewhere in Pakistan.
Baluchistan has witnessed a low-level insurgency by small groups demanding independence from the central government in Islamabad.
Although authorities said they have quelled the insurgency, violence persists in the province.
