India, March 30 -- In a rare revelation, Pakistan on Saturday admitted to have killed 10 civilians during an anti-militant operation in the country's northwest and promised to probe the circumstances.

Authorities in Pakistan made the admission Saturday evening about the deaths which occurred in the early hours of that morning in a remote hilltop area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province's Katlang, according to an Associated Press report, which added that it was not immediately clear how the operations were carried out.

Pakistan does not usually reveals civilian casualties that take place during anti-militant activities.

Provincial government spokesman Muhammad Ali Saif said that reports indicated the location was being used as a "hideout and...