Washington, Feb 22 (IANS) The recent attacks by Baloch armed groups against Pakistan’s security forces underscore the shortcomings of Pakistani Army chief Asim Munir’s coercive state policy amid the near-total suppression of dissent across Balochistan, a report said on Sunday.Writing for American media outlet ‘PJ Media’, Turkish journalist Uzay Bulut argued that the February 1 attack by the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) exposed a Pakistani intelligence lapse in failing to preempt an at…
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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…
Quetta, Feb 4 (IANS) The Baloch National Movement (BNM) stated that the enforced disappearance of its Chairman Naseem Baloch’s father and close relatives by Pakistani forces is not an isolated incident; instead, it is part of a decade-long pattern of systematic policies aimed at collectively punishing the people of Balochistan.”The enforced disappearance of the BNM Chairman’s father and close relatives is neither an isolated nor an exceptional incident. Rather, it is part of a long-standing, sys…
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…
New Delhi, Feb 2 (IANS) The plan to bring together the Lashkar-e-Taiba and Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) to fight against the Balochistan Nationalist Army (BLA) and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) appears to have failed. The Pakistan army and ISI hatched a plan to bring the two terror groups together to battle the BLA and TTP, as the battle against these two groups was proving to be extremely hard.The BLA launched a series of attacks in Quetta and other places in “Operation Herof Phase…
Islamabad, Feb 2 (IANS) Pakistani security forces killed 145 people during a 40-hour military operation launched in response to a series of what authorities described as “coordinated” gun and bomb attacks across Balochistan, local media reported, quoting provincial Chief Minister Sarfraz Bugti. According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), security forces killed 92 “militants” during the operation, while 15 civilians also lost their lives, reported leading Pakistani daily The …
Quetta, Jan 27 (IANS) Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF) chief Allah Nazar Baloch has accused Balochistan Chief Minister Sarfraz Bugti of implementing a “draconian detention law” while alleging that, on an average, five people are abducted and disappeared daily in the province by the Pakistani law-enforcement agencies. In a statement shared on social media platform Truth Social, Baloch urged the United Nations, the European Union, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the global intelli…
Quetta, Jan 23 (IANS) The approval of the ‘Balochistan Prevention, Detention and Deradicalisation Rules 2025’ by the provincial government headed by controversial Chief Minister Sarfraz Bugti is an attempt to legalise enforced disappearances in Balochistan, a report has highlighted. A meeting of the Balochistan provincial cabinet was held under the chairmanship of Bugti earlier this week whose government is led by the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP). During the meeting, ‘The Balochistan Post’ analy…