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A powerful car bomb blast outside the headquarters of Pakistan’s paramilitary Frontier Corps in the southwestern city of Quetta has killed at least 10 people and wounded more than 30 others, authorities said.

The explosion, swiftly followed by heavy gunfire, tore through the vicinity of Zarghoon Road in Quetta, capital of Balochistan province, on Tuesday.

“Two law enforcement personnel were killed while the rest of the dead were civilians,” Bakht Muhammad Kakar, the provincial health minister, told.

A security camera video posted on social media showed a vehicle turning towards the regional headquarters of the Frontier Corps and exploding within seconds.

Balochistan’s Chief Minister Mir Sarfraz Bugti condemned the incident, labelling it a “terrorist attack”. Speaking after the blast, Bugti confirmed that at least four attackers were killed by the security personnel.

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In the shadow of Pakistan’s growing border tensions with India and a fragile Afghan frontier, a disturbing figure has emerged: from January to June 2025, the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), rebranded as the Fidayeen-e-Afghan Khilafat (FAK), has claimed responsibility for 1,377 attacks on Pakistani security forces.

That’s over 230 attacks per month, more than four times the total number of reported incidents across all of 2023.

The Pakistan army hunts for them in and around Quetta mountains and in the past days killed 18 of them. (pics)