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Gunmen abduct 18 workers from a marble mining site near Khuzdar, Pakistan

News card from EXE Index. Headline: Gunmen abduct 18 workers from a marble mining site near Khuzdar, Pakistan. Locator map adapted from Wikimedia Commons (Milenioscuro, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped) showing Khuzdar district in red within Balochistan province, Pakistan; not a photo of the event. Key facts, as police officials told Arab News, The Express Tribune and PTI: the attack hit a marble mining site in the Naal area, about 40 kilometres from Khuzdar city, on Saturday night or early Sunday, October 17 to 18, 2026 (reports differ on the time); dozens of armed men on motorcycles and in vehicles stormed the site; 18 workers from villages in Khuzdar district were abducted and one worker was shot and wounded; no group has claimed it and police say a search is under way; on Friday, gunmen seized 20 police trainees in Mastung district. Sources: police officials via Arab News, The Express Tribune, PTI. exeindex.com/crime. Record dispatch:2026-10-18-pk-khuzdar-kidnap. @exeindex.
News cardMap: Khuzdar district (red) in Balochistan, Pakistan. Locator map, not a photo of the Oct 17-18, 2026 kidnapping. Map: Wikimedia Commons, User:Milenioscuro, CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped by EXE Index)

Reported Oct 18: Gunmen stormed a marble mining site near Khuzdar in Pakistan's Balochistan and abducted 18 workers, police officials say. One worker was shot and wounded. No group has claimed it. On Friday, 20 police…

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Crime DeskRecordDera Murad Jamali

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Gunmen kill two police officers on patrol in Pakistan's Balochistan

News card from EXE Index. Headline: Gunmen kill two police officers on patrol in Pakistan's Balochistan. Locator map from Wikimedia Commons (Milenioscuro, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped) showing Nasirabad district in red within Balochistan province, Pakistan; not a photo of the attack. Key facts for Saturday, October 17, 2026: at Bedar Bridge in the Pat Feeder area near Dera Murad Jamali, unidentified gunmen fired on two police head constables patrolling by motorcycle; both were killed on the spot, police say; the attackers took their service weapons and fled, and no group has claimed the attack; a search operation is under way and the officers' families blocked the highway in protest. Sources: Dawn, The Express Tribune, Quetta Voice. exeindex.com/crime. Record dispatch:2026-10-17-pk-nasirabad-police. @exeindex.
News cardMap: Nasirabad district (red) in Balochistan, Pakistan. Map: Wikimedia Commons, Milenioscuro · CC BY-SA 4.0 · cropped

Oct 17: Unidentified gunmen shot dead two police head constables patrolling by motorcycle near Bedar Bridge in Nasirabad, Pakistan's Balochistan, and took their service weapons, police told Dawn and The Express…

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Terror DeskRecordAsia

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Pakistan says forces killed eight militants in three Balochistan operations

News card from EXE Index. Headline: Pakistan says forces killed eight militants in three Balochistan operations. Locator map adapted from Wikimedia Commons (Milenioscuro, CC BY-SA 4.0, combined and cropped) showing Quetta, Nushki and Khuzdar districts in red within Balochistan province, Pakistan; not a photo of the operations. Key facts for Saturday, October 17, 2026, as stated by Pakistan's military media wing ISPR: five militants were killed in Quetta district's Panjpai area while trying to set up a roadblock; two were killed in a raid on a hideout in Nushki district after an exchange of fire, with weapons recovered; one was killed at a hideout in Khuzdar district, where 490 kilograms of explosives were recovered; ISPR blames what it calls Fitna al Hindustan, and says clearance operations continue. Sources: ISPR via Dawn, The Express Tribune, The Nation. exeindex.com/terrorism. Record dispatch:2026-10-17-pk-balochistan-ibos. @exeindex.
News cardMap: Quetta, Nushki and Khuzdar districts (red) in Balochistan, Pakistan. Locator map, not a photo of the Oct 17, 2026 operations. Map: Wikimedia Commons, User:Milenioscuro, CC BY-SA 4.0 (three district maps combined and cropped by EXE Index)

Oct 17: Pakistan's military says forces killed 8 militants in three Balochistan operations: five trying to set up a roadblock in Quetta's Panjpai, two in a Nushki hideout raid, one in Khuzdar, where 490 kg of…

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