Pakistan military kills 50 militants along Afghanistan border

PHOTO CAPTION: Illustrative photo — A soldier stands guard along the border fence outside the Kitton outpost on the border with Afghanistan in North Waziristan, Pakistan October 18, 2017. REUTERS/Caren Firouz

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's military said on Tuesday it had killed 50 Islamist militants along the border with neighbouring Afghanistan over four days, in a restive southwestern region home to key Chinese Belt and Road projects.

The militants were killed in an operation started on Thursday, it said in a statement, in Balochistan, where both Islamist militants and separatist insurgents demanding a bigger share of the province's mineral wealth operate.

Reuters could not independently verify the toll.

Independent analysts and militant groups say Pakistan's army routinely exaggerates the death tolls of militants, a charge the military rejects.

(Reporting by Asif Shahzad; Editing by Sudipto Ganguly and Clarence Fernandez // REUTERS)

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