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A government official says clearance operations are ongoing against the militant group, the Balochistan Liberation Army.
In a video sent to media, the militant group claimed to have penetrated the provincial capital Quetta and at least one military position.
The brazen attacks spotlight how the Pakistani military is struggling to keep security in the deeply poor, resource-rich province, even as the institution effectively controls government and most levers of power in the country.
The Balochistan chief minister told media that dozens of security personnel and civilians were also killed.
Pakistan accuses its neighbour and rival, India, of sponsoring the BLA, a charge India denies.
The US State Department has condemned the attacks.
Smog thickens over much of South Asia every winter.
Air pollution levels routinely hit hazardous levels around the Indian capital, New Delhi.
It's so bad that the Energy Policy Institute estimates residents lose more than eight years of their lives here because of the pollution.
The smog is so thick that this week airlines cancelled dozens of flights and delayed many more to and from the capital.
Delayed flights included one that the soccer star Lionel Messi was meant to board on Monday to Delhi.
Local media reported it also delayed the departure of the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for an overseas tour.
The Indian government says it's taking action, including a ban on open-air grills used for charcoal chicken and tandoori bread.
Dee Hadid, NPR News, New Delhi.
These are really dark days for the some 265,000 Afghans who advocates say were in the pipeline to come to the U.S.,
Like Roshan Garg, he was in the Afghan military.