RAWALPINDI — Pakistan's security forces killed eight militants, including a suicide bomber, in an overnight operation in the Kolpur area of Balochistan, while two soldiers, including an army major, were killed the same day when militants attacked a military patrol with weaponised quadcopters, the military's media wing, ISPR, said in a statement on Saturday, November 14.

According to the ISPR statement, intelligence-based operations have been under way since November 13 around Kolpur, Kardagap and Nushki, alongside patrols securing the Quetta–Taftan National Highway (N-40). During the night between November 13 and 14, troops killed eight militants in Kolpur and recovered a large cache of weapons and ammunition, the statement said.

Source: The AZB — ISPR Balochistan operations

The ISPR described the dead as members of 'Fitna al-Hindustan', the term Pakistan's military uses for Balochistan-based militant groups it describes as Indian-sponsored. That sponsorship description is the military's own characterisation; no independent evidence on the point was presented in the statement.

Major and havildar killed in quadcopter attack

On November 14, militants targeted military vehicles on patrol using armed quadcopters, the ISPR said. Major Omer Minhas Nasir, a resident of Chakwal district, and Havildar Muhammad Adnan Khan, from Kotli Sattian, were killed in the attack.

The outlawed Baloch Liberation Army claimed responsibility for the armed quadcopter attack in the Kardagap area, according to monitoring reports of the claim; that claim has not been independently verified. Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi condemned the attack and paid tribute to the two soldiers, the reports said.

Source: Terror Monitor — Balochistan quadcopter attack report

Part of a wider two-province campaign

The Balochistan operations came on the same day the military reported 16 militants killed in separate intelligence-based operations in North Waziristan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa — a combined total of 24 militants reported by Anadolu Agency across the two provinces on Saturday. A day earlier, the ISPR had reported 74 militants killed in operations across Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

In North Waziristan on Saturday, the military said 16 militants were killed and two soldiers also died — the other half of the day's two-province campaign. Read: 16 militants killed in North Waziristan operations, ISPR says

The ISPR said the counterterrorism campaign would continue at full pace under the federal government's Azm-e-Istehkam initiative. Balochistan, Pakistan's largest and poorest province, has faced a long-running separatist insurgency, and attacks on security forces and highway traffic in the province have continued through 2026.