Islamabad, May 8 (IANS) Pakistan’s reliance on proxy militant networks, its heavy-handed handling of local grievances, and its failure to respond to emerging militant alliances have fuelled the current crisis in Balochistan. Far from being a peripheral theatre, the province is turning into the epicentre of a multilayered insurgency shaped by decades of strategic miscalculations by Pakistani authorities, a report has detailed. According to a report in Eurasia Review, Balochistan has once again de…
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Quetta, April 10 (IANS) Pakistani forces were attacked in an ambush in Balochistan’s Turbat, where a Baloch armed group had earlier imposed a road blockade, resulting in severe casualties, local media reported.Citing sources, The Balochistan Post reported that the attack occurred on Thursday after the group blocked the road on the outskirts of Turbat for about three hours before taking control of a nearby police post and seizing weapons.After entering the area, a military convoy of six vehicle…
Nairobi, Feb 13 (IANS) Critics have warned that continued militarised governance risks deepening alienation and instability in Pakistan’s Balochistan, a report has stated. Rising attacks in Balochistan are undermining security narrative of Pakistan and threatening international investment commitments, especially those related to the US and China, Kenya-based Capital News reported.Balochistan, which possesses rich minerals and is strategically located along the Arabian Sea, has witnessed coordina…
Quetta, Feb 6 (IANS) Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), the Pakistan army’s media wing, has once again boasted about something one ought to be ashamed about by highlighting the “victory of security forces” in Balochistan which was actually a major intelligence failure on part of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and military as they failed to detect the activity of Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), a report has highlighted. On January 30, BLA launched ‘Operation Herof 2.0’ with its…
Quetta, Feb 4 (IANS) Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has admitted that the country’s security forces were ‘handicapped’ against Baloch rebels amid the fresh surge in militant violence in Balochistan, a province which has been fighting for independence from Islamabad.His remarks came as a total of 197 Baloch people, including militants from ‘Fitna al-Hindustan’ and other armed groups, were killed in continuing counterterrorism operations in Balochistan over the past three days. Addit…