Quetta, April 16 (IANS) The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) has claimed that it has killed 29 Pakistani military personnel in 14 attacks conducted between April 3-14 in several parts of Balochistan province, local media reported on Thursday. In a statement, BLA spokesperson Jeeyand Baloch said that the group carried out operations in Panjgur, Kharan, Surab, Washuk, Uthal, Mastung and Jhal Magsi, targetting military convoys, checkpoints and supply lines, The Balochistan Post reported.Jeeyand Baloch …
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Quetta, April 16 (IANS) Armed men allegedly linked to Pakistani forces are impersonating as Baloch pro-independence fighters and harassing people in parts of Kharan district in Pakistan’s Balochistan province, local residents have claimed. According to the residents, the said men identified themselves as “sarmachars”, a term commonly used for Baloch armed fighters, while travelling through different parts of the district and threatening people, The Balochistan Post reported.They alleged that the…
Quetta, April 14 (IANS) The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) claimed that three Pakistani naval personnel were killed in what it described as its first maritime operation in the Jiwani area of Gwadar district in Balochistan, as it announced the formation of a naval wing. A video footage released by BLA’s media wing, Hakkal, circulating on social media showed four masked fighters moving towards the sea before boarding a speedboat.The video showed the fighters at sea moving towards a vessel identified…
Quetta, March 31 (IANS) The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) on Tuesday claimed responsibility for carrying out more than 30 coordinated attacks against the Pakistani army across several regions in Balochistan, resulting in the death of dozens of personnel and injuries to several others. “Our series of coordinated attacks against the occupying Pakistani army across the length and breadth of occupied Balochistan continues with full force. So far, more than 30 attacks have been carried out in various …
Islamabad, March 7 (IANS) Pakistan’s Balochistan province reflects more than a regional crisis, exposing the structural weaknesses of the Pakistani authorities and underscoring the risk of militarising politics. By projecting Balochistan solely as a security problem, Islamabad’s approach is proving increasingly short-sighted, with peaceful forms of dissent — from marches by families of the disappeared to student protests — suppressed through arrests, media blackouts, and intimidation, a re…
Quetta, March 3 (IANS) The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) on Tuesday claimed that it has killed seven Pakistani military personnel captured during ‘Operation Herof II’ following Senior Command Council’s order, local media reported. In a statement, the BLA said that seven men related to regular units of the Pakistani military were sentenced by the ‘Baloch National Court’ for involvement in crimes, including enforced disappearances, abuses against civilians and other war crimes, ‘The Balochistan Pos…
Quetta, March 3 (IANS) Several Baloch militant groups launched a series of attacks targeting Pakistani military and police forces across different parts of Balochistan over the past few days, resulting in heavy casualties and damage to the infrastructure, local media reported on Tuesday.The Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF) claimed responsibility for an attack on a Pakistani military camp in the Shadi Kaur Dam area of Pasni in Gwadar district on Monday, using light machine guns, rockets and oth…
Quetta, March 1 (IANS) After suffering losses during the Baloch Liberation Army’s (BLA) Operation Herof, Pakistani police in Balochistan and Sindh killed 27 forcibly disappeared individuals in Karachi, Quetta, and other places, and later termed them armed militants, according to a report. Baloch youth have been subjected to extrajudicial killings in Balochistan for over 20 years, and Pakistan is now also targeting their families as a form of collective punishment.Hamdan Baloch was in the custody…
Quetta, Feb 28 (IANS) The killing of 27 forcibly disappeared Baloch people at the hands of Pakistani forces earlier this month during the second phase of ‘Operation Herof’ is not an isolated incident, but part of a broader pattern that has persisted for more than a decade in Balochistan, according to a recent report.According to a report in Balochistan Post, following the launch of the second phase of armed resistance ‘Operation Herof’ on January 31 by the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) against Pa…
Quetta, Feb 15 (IANS) The long-running dispute between Pakistan and Balochistan over the province’s legitimacy has never truly been settled but instead suppressed through decades of military campaigns, political manoeuvring, and what many Baloch describe as colonial-style resource extraction, according to a recent report published in Modern Diplomacy.Covering Pakistan’s southwestern frontier, Balochistan accounts for nearly 44 per cent of the country’s total land area while housing only ab…