ISLAMABAD/ISTANBUL

At least 10 people, including two policemen, an army officer, and four militants, were killed Wednesday in separate incidents in Pakistan.

A passenger bus headed to Quetta from Karachi was fired upon in Kalat city in the southwestern province of Balochistan, the government of Balochistan posted on X.

Spokesman Shahid Rind said seven injured people were taken to a hospital, adding that security forces are conducting operations against militants.

In another incident in Balochistan, 34-year-old Maj. Syed Rabnawaz Tariq was killed during an operation against militants, according to a statement from the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the media and public relations wing of the Pakistan Armed Forces.

The Pakistani army said that an operation was conducted against the "terrorists belonging to Indian Proxy, Fitna al Hindustan."

There was no immediate reaction from New Delhi about the latest statement from the Pakistani military.

Earlier, at least two policemen and four militants were killed in separate incidents in northwestern Pakistan.

Security forces conducted an intelligence-based operation in the Azamabad area of the Tank district, near South Waziristan in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, and killed four most-wanted militants, a senior security official told Anadolu on condition of anonymity, as he was not authorized to speak to the media.

Forces also recovered a large cache of weapons and ammunition from the militants, he added.

Earlier this month, Pakistani forces claimed to have killed 30 militants attempting to infiltrate North Waziristan from Afghanistan.

Separately, militants shot dead two policemen at Yadgar Chowk in the Kulachi area of the Dera Ismail Khan district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi said in a statement.

"Strongly condemn the firing by Fitna-e-Hindustan terrorists on our policemen," he said, paying tribute to the officers who lost their lives.

Last month, one militant was killed and two others were injured in an attack on a police patrol near the Malang area of Dera Ismail Khan.

Islamabad accuses Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan militants, allegedly based in Afghanistan, of carrying out cross-border attacks, a claim Kabul denies.