At least 18 security personnel and 23 terrorists were killed during clashes between the two sides in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province.

Pakistani military said the troops suffered casualties when they engaged the insurgents who erected barricades on a key highway in Balochistan’s Kalat district, bordering Afghanistan

QUETTA: Eighteen paramilitary soldiers martyred and 24 militants were killed in fighting in Balochistan, the military’s media wing said in a statement on Saturday. The militants had tried to set up roadblocks overnight in the restive province of Balochistan and most of the deaths had taken place as security forces removed them, the military said.

Pakistani troops fought insurgents who set up roadblocks in the restive northwestern region of Balochistan, leaving 18 paramilitary security forces and 23 rebels dead in some of the heaviest clashes in recent years,

At least 18 soldiers were killed and five others injured in attacks by separatist militants in Balochistan’s Kalat district. Security forces managed to repel the terrorists. The Baloch Liberation Army claimed responsibility,