QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani security raid on a militant hideout in the insurgency-hit southwestern Balochistan province this week left seven insurgents dead, the military said Friday.

The raid on Wednesday in the remote Sherani district came just a day after a powerful car bomb outside the headquarters of Pakistan’s paramilitary security forces in Quetta, the Balochistan capital, killed at least 10 people and wounded 30.

The military said troops engaged in a shootout with the militants and later recovered weapons, ammunition, and explosives from the site. The statement said the killed men were from “Fitna Al-Khawarij,” a phrase the government uses for the outlawed Baloch Liberation Army, or BLA, and other separatist groups.

The military claimed the slain militants had backing fr

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