New Delhi: Along with the devastating Operation Sindoor offensive by India in which our country has destroyed major terrorist camps in retaliation to the Pahalgam attack on April 22 that killed 26 innocent people, Pakistani forces have been rocked by twin attacks executed by the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA). The BLA has claimed responsibility for two separate attacks in Balochistan province’s Kech and Bolan area which killed 14 personnel of the Pakistan Army.
14 Pak soldiers killed by Baloch Liberation Army
While India has sent Pakistan into a state of utter chaos, shock, and fear with the Operation Sindoor, the Baloch Liberation Army’s Special Tactical Operations Squad (STOS) executed a remote-controlled Improvised Explosive Device (IED) strike on a military convoy of the Pakistan Army in the Shorkand area of Mach, Bolan. According to reports, the powerful blasts killed all 12 soldiers who were traveling in the vehicle. The list of killed Pakistan Army personnel in the blasts include Special Operations Commander Tariq Imran and Subedar Umar Farooq. The blast killed all the soldiers and destroyed the vehicle.
In another attack, the BLA targeted the Pakistani Army’s Bomb Disposal Squad in the Kech’s Kulag Tigran area. The BLA fighters exploded a remote-controlled device at around 2:40 PM while the Pakistan Army squad was conducting clearance operations. The attack killed two personnel of the Pakistan Army, with the two attacks killing 14 personnel of the Pakistan Army in total.
BLA calls Pakistani forces ‘mercenary armed gang’
BLA spokesperson Jeeyand Baloch has crticised the Pakistan Army and others who call them a ‘foreign proxy’ and said that the Pakistani Army is ‘mercenary armed gang’ which depends on the ‘Chinese capital’ and changing financers decide the priorities of the military. Hence, he called the Pakistani Army a commercial one rather than being a national army, as per reports. He called the Pakistani Army an occupying army and declared the attacks against the army would continue with greater intensity.
These attacks show the many problems and conflicts in Balochistan and the grievance of the common people there against the Pakistani government. For many years now, Balochistan has been seeking independence, with allegations of havoc exploitation and tortures rife against the Pakistani government. Balochistan is a place with immense natural resources, but it is the Pakistani government and foreign entities who benefit from those resources instead of the local population who live in poverty and neglect. Even the Pakistani Army present there is considered as oppressor, not as a protector.
