RAWALPINDI: Thirteen outlaws were killed and four injured … in a clash with troops in Marri area of Baluchistan, it was officially stated here today [Dec 8]. The bodies of the dead were recovered by troops, while one wounded outlaw was captured, a Press release of Inter-Service Public Relations Directorate said. The clash took place with a band of outlaws about 12 miles off Mawand as the troops searched the difficult and hitherto considered inaccessible hideout in Thaderi range of Marri area, it said. The troops suffered one killed and two wounded. In another clash with outlaws in the Marri area on Dec. 7, one soldier was killed and another wounded. — News agencies

[Meanwhile, as reported by our staff correspondent from Quetta,] the judicial inquiry ordered by the Governor of Baluchistan, Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, into the assassination of Pashtoonkhawa NAP chief, Khan Abdus Samad Khan Achakzai, will begin here on Monday [Dec 10] before the one-man Tribunal presided [over] by Mr Justice Mohammad Haleem, a senior judge of the Sind-Baluchistan High Court. … Meanwhile, there has been no response from the public to the call by the tribunal to come forward and record any information which could help in the inquiry.

Published in Dawn, December 9th, 2023