QUETTA: A police head constable was martyred in a terrorist attack on a checkpost in the Huramzai area of Balochistan’s Pishin district on Monday.

According to police, militants on a motorcycle opened fire on a police checkpost, triggering retaliation from police personnel.

“The exchange of fire, which continued for some time, resulted in the martyrdom of a head constable,” a police official told Dawn, adding that the assailants then fled from the scene.

The official said that security forces rushed to the area of the incident and shifted the body of the martyred constable Naimatullah to a local hospital.

Separately, five labourers were injured when unidentified motorcyclists hurled a grenade into a house in the Dalbandin area of Chagai district late on Monday night, police said.

Published in Dawn, April 28th, 2026