Pakistan, June 15 -- Around 700 army personnel have been killed in various militant attacks over the past two years, Pakistan's Defense Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif said on Saturday, accusing India of supporting terror outfits in the country.

Pakistan has witnessed a surge in militant attacks since November 2022 in its northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and southwestern Balochistan provinces bordering Iran and Afghanistan. In KP, the Pakistani Taliban or Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) outfit has carried out some of the deadliest attacks against law enforcers.

In Balochistan, separatist ethnic Baloch militant groups demand independence from the state, accusing Islamabad of denying locals a share in the province's mineral resources....