{"id":57452,"date":"2026-05-14T08:29:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T08:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/?p=57452"},"modified":"2026-05-14T09:45:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T09:45:36","slug":"pakistan-five-soldiers-seven-militants-killed-in-clashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/?p=57452","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan: Five Soldiers, Seven Militants Killed in Clashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least five soldiers and seven militants were killed in clashes in Pakistan&#8217;s turbulent south-western province of Balochistan, officials said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>An improvised explosive device detonated near a convoy of paramilitary Frontier Corps troops and was followed by a clash with militants, they said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Five soldiers were killed and another was critically wounded,&#8221; a senior official told AFP.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During the operation, a group of terrorists was located and engaged by troops. 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An improvised explosive device detonated near a convoy of paramilitary Frontier Corps troops and was followed by a clash with militants, they said. &#8220;Five soldiers were killed and another was critically wounded,&#8221; a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57454,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2026-05-14T09:45:40Z","apple_news_api_id":"51836df1-f29d-4c92-9136-301c2f2eb114","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-05-14T09:45:40Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AUYNt8fKdTJKRNjAcLy6xFA","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57453,"href":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57452\/revisions\/57453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}