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19-05-2025
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78 Attacks in 58 Locations: Baloch Separatists Challenge Pakistan Vantage with Palki Sharma
78 Attacks in 58 Locations: Baloch Separatists Challenge Pakistan | Vantage with Palki Sharma | N18G 78 Attacks in 58 Locations: Baloch Separatists Challenge Pakistan | Vantage with Palki Sharma | N18G Pakistan's largest province is on the boil. Baloch fighters have launched a fierce new campaign. The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) has carried out 78 attacks in 58 locations this month alone, targeting military posts and convoys. This new offensive—Operation Herof 2.0—has shaken the Pakistani state. Baloch activists are now calling for international recognition of an independent Balochistan. They're seeking support from India and the United Nations. See More
Arab News
18-05-2025
- Politics
- Arab News
Blast kills three, injures 11 in Pakistan's restive southwest
QUETTA: At least three people were killed and 11 others wounded after an improvised explosive device (IED) exploded in a border district in Pakistan southwestern Balochistan province, a government official said on Sunday. The blast took place inside a market next to a security forces camp in Gulistan town of Killa Abdullah district, located close to the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. The explosives were planted on a vehicle and were detonated at around 8:30pm, according to Killa Abdullah Deputy Commissioner Muhammad Riaz Dawar. 'Majority of the shops inside the market were closed when the blast hit the market,' Dawar told Arab News. 'A wall of the security forces' camp was also partially damaged due to the intensity of the blast.' The bodies and injured were shifted to hospital. Two of the wounded persons were brought to Trauma Center in Quetta who were in stable condition and undergoing treatment, according to Dr. Arbab Kamran Kasi. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack in Gulistan town that is situated close to Afghanistan's Kandahar province. Pakistan is currently battling twin insurgencies: one led my religiously motivated groups, including the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), mainly in its Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province and the other by ethno-nationalist Baloch separatist groups in Balochistan. The TTP and Daesh have also maintained some presence in Balochistan. The latest attack comes two days after the TTP said it had targeted a security check post in Balochistan's Khuzdar that killed four members of the Levies paramilitary force. In Jan. 2025, Pakistan's military said security forces had thwarted an attack on a paramilitary force' camp in Gulistan, killing two suicide bombers among five attackers.
Arab News
10-05-2025
- Politics
- Arab News
In separate attacks, gunmen kill two, set police vehicle ablaze in southwest Pakistan
QUETTA: Gunmen killed three people, including two barbers from the eastern Punjab province, and set a police vehicle ablaze in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province in the southwest, police and paramilitary Levies officials said on Saturday. Balochistan, Pakistan's most impoverished province, has been the site of a decades-old insurgency, where separatist militants often target security forces, police, foreigners and ethnic Punjabi commuters and workers, who they see as 'outsiders,' by wresting control of highways and remote towns. In this first attack, gunmen shot dead three people and injured another one inside a barber shop in Lasbela, a district adjacent to Pakistan's commercial capital of Karachi, according to Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Atif Amir. 'Two of the deceased hailed from Bahawalpur (Punjab) and one from Quetta,' the official told Arab News. 'Hunt for the attackers is underway.' In another incident, dozens of armed men entered the Panjgur district late on Friday night and attempted to seize control of the Panjgur city and nearby areas. 'The armed men set a police vehicle and record of the Panjgur police station on fire,' Abdullah Baloch, an official at the Panjgur Levies control room, told Arab News. 'No casualty was reported despite an exchange of fire between security forces and armed men in Panjgur city and Goran, another area located 15 kilometers from Panjgur.' No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks, but Baloch separatists have carried out similar assaults on law enforcers and ethnic Punjabis in the past. The separatists accuse Islamabad of exploiting the province's natural resources, such as gold and copper, and accuse foreigners and people from other province of backing the Pakistani state. Successive Pakistani governments have denied the allegations and said they only worked for the uplift of the region and its people. The latest attacks come at a time, when Pakistan is fighting another insurgency by religiously motivated militant groups in its northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, while the country's eastern border with India has also flared up in recent weeks over an attack in Indian-administered Kashmir that killed 26 tourists last month. Islamabad has variously accused Afghanistan and India of supporting the Pakistani Taliban and Baloch separatist groups, an allegation denied by Kabul and New Delhi. In March, the Baloch Liberation Army separatist group hijacked a train with hundreds of passengers aboard near Balochistan's Bolan Pass, which resulted in the deaths of 23 soldiers, three railway employees and five passengers. At least 33 insurgents were also killed, according to officials. Late last month, police killed nine suspected militants in an intelligence-based operation in Balochistan's Pishin district.
Arab News
10-05-2025
- Politics
- Arab News
Gunmen kill two barbers among three, set police vehicle ablaze in Pakistan's southwest
QUETTA: Gunmen killed three people, including two barbers from the eastern Punjab province, and set a police vehicle ablaze in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province in the southwest, police and paramilitary Levies officials said on Saturday. Balochistan, Pakistan's most impoverished province, has been the site of a decades-old insurgency, where separatist militants often target security forces, police, foreigners and ethnic Punjabi commuters and workers, who they see as 'outsiders,' by wresting control of highways and remote towns. In this first attack, gunmen shot dead three people and injured another one inside a barber shop in Lasbela, a district adjacent to Pakistan's commercial capital of Karachi, according to Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Atif Amir. 'Two of the deceased hailed from Bahawalpur (Punjab) and one from Quetta,' the official told Arab News. 'Hunt for the attackers is underway.' In another incident, dozens of armed men entered the Panjgur district late on Friday night and attempted to seize control of the Panjgur city and nearby areas. 'The armed men set a police vehicle and record of the Panjgur police station on fire,' Abdullah Baloch, an official at the Panjgur Levies control room, told Arab News. 'No casualty was reported despite an exchange of fire between security forces and armed men in Panjgur city and Goran, another area located 15 kilometers from Panjgur.' No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks, but Baloch separatists have carried out similar assaults on law enforcers and ethnic Punjabis in the past. The separatists accuse Islamabad of exploiting the province's natural resources, such as gold and copper, and accuse foreigners and people from other province of backing the Pakistani state. Successive Pakistani governments have denied the allegations and said they only worked for the uplift of the region and its people. The latest attacks come at a time, when Pakistan is fighting another insurgency by religiously motivated militant groups in its northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, while the country's eastern border with India has also flared up in recent weeks over an attack in Indian-administered Kashmir that killed 26 tourists last month. Islamabad has variously accused Afghanistan and India of supporting the Pakistani Taliban and Baloch separatist groups, an allegation denied by Kabul and New Delhi. In March, the Baloch Liberation Army separatist group hijacked a train with hundreds of passengers aboard near Balochistan's Bolan Pass, which resulted in the deaths of 23 soldiers, three railway employees and five passengers. At least 33 insurgents were also killed, according to officials. Late last month, police killed nine suspected militants in an intelligence-based operation in Balochistan's Pishin district.
