Quetta, July 20 (IANS) The recent attack by Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) on the heavily-fortified compound of Shafiqur Rehman Mengal, a local leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) in Balochistan’s Khuzdar district, was more than an insurgent strike targeting the very machinery underpinning Pakistan’s official counterterrorism narrative, a report has stated. It argued that while Pakistani authorities claim to be fighting militancy in Balochistan for years, the state has governed through mi…
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Islamabad, July 19 (IANS) Pakistan seems to extend patronage to Islamic State-Khorasan Province (ISKP), also known as ISIS-K or Daesh Khorasan, not due to ideological sympathy, but as an instrument to put pressure on the Taliban and Baloch rebels, a report has detailed. On June 30, reports claimed about cross-border activity between Afghanistan and Pakistan, centred on the alleged hideouts of the ISKP. Such incidents have occurred repeatedly in recent years as Pakistan has created a plan to coun…
Islamabad, July 19 (IANS) The Islamic State–Khorasan Province’s (ISKP) greatest strength is connectivity, and Pakistan remains central to that connectivity because of history and geography, a report stated.”Pakistan has always attempted to present ISKP as a foreign infection entering from Afghanistan. This is convenient, but historically false. The organisation did not arrive in Pakistan from another planet. It emerged in part from the same jihadist ecosystem that the Pakistani state had cul…
Islamabad, July 3 (IANS) Four people were killed and over a dozen others were injured after the roofs of two houses collapsed in Zhob and Khuzdar areas of Pakistan’s Balochistan after heavy monsoon rains lashed parts of the province, officials said, according to local media reports. According to the officials, pre-monsoon rains disrupted daily life in several parts of Balochistan. Inter-district roads were damaged due to flash floods while homes, crops and infrastructure were destroyed due to he…
Quetta, June 25 (IANS) The Baloch Literacy Campaign (BLC) — an initiative of the Baloch Students Action Committee (BSAC) — has expressed serious concern over the deteriorating condition of a girls’ school in Balochistan’s Khuzdar district, citing a lack of basic facilities and resources necessary for students’ effective academic growth and development. According to the BLC, the Government Girls High School Sarrej in the Greshag area of Khuzdar is grappling with a severe shortage of staff, as o…
Quetta, June 4 (IANS) As violence against civilians continues unabated across Balochistan, Pakistani forces are conducting a massive military operation across several districts, deploying thousands of ground troops backed by gunship helicopters, artillery units, drones and armoured vehicles, local media reported, citing sources.The operation, which began on Tuesday, has impacted several parts of Mastung, Kalat, Noshki, Kech, Khuzdar and Panjgur districts, with reports of casualties and arbitrary…
Quetta, June 2 (IANS) At least 10 civilians were forcibly disappeared in Balochistan following raids and operations conducted by Pakistani forces across several districts, including Nushki, Khuzdar, and Surab, local media reported on Tuesday.Citing local sources, the Balochistan Post reported that Pakistani armed forces carried out a massive search operation in the Killi Mengal region in Nushki on Monday morning.According to residents, around 20 military vehicles surrounded the area before condu…
Quetta, May 23 (IANS) Human rights body Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) strongly condemned the ongoing curfew in the Zehri region of Balochistan’s Khuzdar district imposed by the Pakistani forces, describing it as an “excessive exercise of state power”.According to the rights body, the sweeping restrictions sparked serious concerns about the treatment of civilians and the devastating impact on their social and economic lives.“In Zehri, Khuzdar, the situation for the local population contin…
Quetta, April 27 (IANS) The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) claimed responsibility for a series of attacks against Pakistani forces across multiple districts of Balochistan between April 15 and April 25, killing 42 military personnel, injuring several others and capturing one soldier during the period, local media reported on Monday. According to a statement issued by the BLA spokesperson, Jeeyand Baloch, the group’s fighters carried out improvised explosive device (IED) attacks, ambushes, raids, a…
Quetta, March 10 (IANS) At least two men allegedly linked to Pakistan’s intelligence agency were killed, while another was detained after a Baloch armed group set up a checkpoint on the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) highway in Balochistan’s Khuzdar district, local media reported on Tuesday.Citing sources, The Balochistan Post reported that the fighters blocked the road and inspected passing vehicles at the checkpoint during the operation on Monday at Karkh tehsil in Khuzdar.Two m…