Gunmen shot dead 20 miners and wounded over half a dozen in Pakistan 's restive Balochistan province on Friday, just days ahead of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in the country. Nearly 40 gunmen stormed the living quarters of workers at a coal mine in Duki district at around 12.30am local time and fired on them, police said.

Islamabad - Pakistani police said Friday insurgents had carried out a predawn attack at a coal mine in southwestern Balochistan resulting in the deaths

Twenty coal miners were shot dead in an overnight attack on their lodgings by a group of heavily armed men in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province, police said Friday.

Pakistan is set to host the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit on October 15-16 in Islamabad, in which Foreign Minister S Jaishankar will also participate: Pakistan Balochistan attack

IHC declares 3 days "closed holiday"; provincial govt imposes a ban on all political assemblies in 9 other districts for 3 days.

Protests by the opposition PTI and a major suicide bombing outside Karachi airport that killed Chinese civilians have cast a shadow over the event.

Twenty coal miners were shot dead in an overnight attack by a group of heavily armed men who laid siege to their lodgings in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province, police said