Terrorist attacks kill 257 in Pakistan's Balochistan in first six months


Rescue personnel transfer the body of a bus passenger into an ambulance, a day after he was killed in a militant attack allegedly by the separatist group Balochistan Liberation Front, at the Zhob district in Balochistan province on July 11, 2025. - AFP

ISLAMABAD: A total of 257 people were killed and 492 others injured in 501 terrorist incidents in Pakistan's southwest Balochistan province in the first half of 2025, local authorities said in a report.

The report recorded a 45 per cent increase in terrorist incidents in the cited period compared to the same period last year.

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