QUETTA / KHUZDAR: Three security personnel, including two Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) officials and a policeman, were martyred in three separate incidents in Balochistan on Thursday.

Police said unknown armed men intercepted a Quetta-bound passenger coach coming from Karachi. The attackers, after checking identity cards, took away an under-training CTD official, and later

killed him. In another incident, a CTD official was martyred by unknown armed motorcyclists in the Nasirabad Khatan area of Khuzdar.

Separately, a police official was martyred during an attack by armed men in the Segi area of Qila Abdullah district.

Published in Dawn, March 27th, 2026

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