Baluchistan Liberation Army intensifies Its Fight Against Occupation Forces
Soldiers of Baluch Liberation Army, have killed at least four Pakistani soldiers and a civilian in attack on two security posts in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan within hours of each other. The officials of Pakistan say, that a clearance operation at one of the posts is still ongoing.
The attacks took place late on Wednesday, targeting a paramilitary post in the town of Panjgur, about 450km south of the Baluchistan capital, Quetta, and another one in Noshki, about 330km north of the first attack spot.
On Thursday, Interior Minister of Pakistan, Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed said “four or five” attackers were still active in Panjgur, and that Pakistani forces were continuing an operation against them.
Six attackers were killed, Ahmed said, while Pakistan Army officials in Panjgur confirmed that a curfew had been imposed in the area and that security operations were ongoing.
At least four soldiers were killed in the Noshki attack, Ahmed said, along with nine attackers. Local police official Khalid Badini said that a civilian had also been killed in the exchange of fire.
In a statement emailed to the media, the ethnic Baloch freedom fighters, Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) claimed responsibility for the attacks.
Jeayand Baloch, the BLA’s spokesman, said the raids were carried out by attackers who were prepared to “self-sacrifice”.
Balochistan was forcibly occupied by Pakistan Army in 1954 and unilaterally made a province of Pakistan. It became the largest but least populated province and has been the site of an armed fight by ethnic Baloch Freedom Fighters for more than 10 years.
Baloch Freedom Fighter groups have targeted Pakistani security forces in regular raids across Baluchistan, demanding greater rights and for independence of Baluchistan.
Wednesday’s attack comes a day after a raid on a Pakistani security forces checkpost in the town of Kech, about 145km south of Panjgur, where at least 10 soldiers were killed, according to a Pakistani military statement
