War and Conflict Journal

Reports out of Pakistan’s continually rebellious southwestern Baluchistan region indicate that recent fighting between Baluch insurgents and Pakistan’s Frontier Corps in the Dera Bugti area claimed up to 43 lives, broken down as 33 dead insurgents and nine members of the Pakistani paramilitary Corps.

Baluchistan rebels seek independence, and have risen up against the Pakistani central government numerous times since Pakistan’s independence from Britain in the late 1940s.

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Fighting flares in Pakistan’s Baluchistan; 43 killed--Reuters, Jul 21, 2008