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India-Pakistan

Attempt to ambush convoy in Kech foiled, 8 terrorists killed in follow-up operation: ISPR

2023-02-24

[Dawn] The military’s media affairs wing said on Thursday that it had foiled an attempt to ambush a convoy of security forces in Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
’s Kech district, adding that eight holy warriors were killed in the follow-up operation.

According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), forces of Evil attempted to ambush a convoy of security forces on February 22 in the evening. The statement said "alert and combat ready troops foiled the cowardly attempt without any loss of life" and also commenced a follow-up operation to hunt down the forces of Evil using "ground and aviation assets".

"Resultantly, on the morning of Feb 23 (today), a suspected hideout of forces of Evil was identified in Mazaaband Range where a sanitisation operation was launched," the ISPR said.

The statement said that eight bad boyz were potted in a "heavy exchange of fire" while a large cache of arms and ammunition, including explosives, was also recovered.

"Security forces of Pakistain will continue to thwart any attempt by inimical elements, on [the] behest of hostile intelligence agencies, to disrupt hard-earned peace in the province," the ISPR said.

The development comes amid a surge in terrorist activities in the country, especially in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces, since the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban
Taliban

...Arabic for students...
Pakistain (TTP) ended its ceasefire with the government in November.

On February 10, two Pakistain Army soldiers were martyred after an improvised bomb (IED) went kaboom! in Balochsitan’s Kohlu area.

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India-Pakistan

2 soldiers martyred in IED blast in Balochistan’s Kohlu: ISPR

2023-02-11

[Dawn] Two Pakistain Army soldiers were martyred after an improvised bomb (IED) went kaboom! in Balochsitan’s Kohlu area, the military’s media wing said on Friday.

"Based on credible intelligence, a sanitisation operation was initiated on Feb 10 in the Kohlu area of Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
to deny Lions of Islam any liberty of action," the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement.

During the ensuing sanitisation of the area, the ISPR said, an IED went kaboom! close to the leading party.

"Resultantly, two officers — identified as Major Jawad and Captain Sagheer — embraced martyrdom and laid their lives in defence of the motherland against an externally perpetrated threat."

The ISPR said that a sanitisation operation is under way in the area to apprehend perpetrators and enemies of peace.

"Such cowardly acts by inimical elements cannot sabotage the hard-earned peace and prosperity in Balochistan. Security Forces are determined to neutralise their nefarious designs even at the cost of blood and lives," the statement concluded.

Earlier, the medical superintendent of the District Healthquarter Hospital (DHQ) Kohlu told Dawn.com that an emergency had been imposed at the medical facility.

All the medical staff, doctors and paramedics have been alerted, he added.

Today’s attack in Balochistan was the latest in a series of terrorist attacks which spiked since the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban
Taliban

...Arabic for students...
Pakistain (TTP) rescinded the ceasefire with the government in 2021.

According to a report, January was the deadliest month since 2018, in which 134 people bit the dust — a 139 per cent spike — and 254 received injuries in at least 44 bad boy attacks across the country.

Last week, a Coast guard was martyred and seven others were maimed in a landmine explosion and subsequent ambush by armed snuffies in the Jiwani area of Gwadar district.

On Feb 6, seven people were maimed in two terrorist attacks in Quetta.

Five people, including an office-bearer of the Civil Secretariat Staff Association, suffered injuries in the first attack. The outlawed TTP later had grabbed credit for the blast, saying that it was a suicide kaboom.

In the second attack, a woman and her child were maimed when unknown persons riding cycle of violences hurled a grenade into the house of Nazeer Ahmed on Mano Jan Road. The grenade went kaboom! in the courtyard.

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India-Pakistan

Balochistan violence

2022-12-28

[Dawn] AFTER KP and Islamabad were rocked by episodes of holy warrior violence over the past few days, Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
experienced a bloody weekend when security personnel as well as non-combatants were subjected to acts of terror.

Two incidents occurred on Saturday, in which at least five coppers belonging to the FC and Levies were martyred in Turbat and Chaman, respectively. The banned TTP took responsibility for the Chaman attack.

Sunday — which was the Quaid’s birthday as well as Christmas — saw even more violence, as at least six coppers were martyred.

The bloodiest incident occurred in Kohlu’s Kahan area, when five army troops, including a captain, bit the dust in an IED blast. The proscribed BLA has grabbed credit for the attack.

Meanwhile in Zhob, another soldier was martyred, while coppers as well as civilians, including children, were maimed in attacks in Quetta, Hub and Kalat.

It can be assumed that Dec 25 was chosen by the attackers for its symbolism, as earlier the Ziarat Residency, where Pakistain’s founding father had stayed before his death, was targeted by Baloch separatists in June 2013.

However,
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an equally troubling aspect that has emerged from the recent incidents is the possibility of TTP and Baloch turbans working together. There have been such reports in social and mainstream media, although nothing conclusive has emerged.

The weekend violence affected both Pakhtun- and Baloch-majority areas of Balochistan. There are reports that some Baloch separatists have decided to join hands with the TTP, though observers say this decision has not been made by major separatist groups, but may represent the choices of individual holy warriors.

The prospect of TTP and Baloch turbans combining forces would be a particularly disturbing one for the state, as it would present an even greater security challenge.

Religiously inspired militancy has a history in Balochistan; after all, one of the most lethal chapters of sectarian terror group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi

... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ...
at one time operated out of the province, claiming hundreds of lives during its multiple campaigns of terror. Though LJ has been relatively quiet in Balochistan of late, turbans belonging to this group would be natural allies of the TTP.

Meanwhile,
...back at the game, the Babe headed for second base. He almost made it. Then Sheila slapped him....
the mostly non-existent border with Afghanistan means that gangs of all persuasion can come and go with relative ease.

The state needs to quickly address the emerging threat, lest Balochistan slip back into large-scale violence.

If there is an emerging nexus between the TTP and Baloch holy warriors, it must be broken, while if there is evidence that the Baloch separatists are finding refuge in Taliban
Taliban

...mindless ferocity in a turban...
-controlled Afghanistan, this needs to be taken up with Kabul’s rulers.

Years of policies led by the establishment to pacify Balochistan have failed. Therefore, along with kinetic action, the state must also look at why it has been unable to bring socioeconomic uplift to this resource-rich, but appallingly poor province.

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India-Pakistan

Balochistan National Party Protests Against Pakistan Army

2022-11-06

[KHAAMAPRESS] Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
National Party (BNP) party organized a rally on Thursday at Shaheed Justice Muhammad Nawaz Chowk, Distt Kohlu, according to reports, against military establishment’s apathy.

According to locals, the establishment and Mighty Pak Army is busy seeking their own interest rather than paying attention to the real issues of Balochistan and the subjugated Baloch people, who are dying of poverty and hunger accentuated by the recent floods in the region, as local media reported.

Recently, Pakistain estimated the total losses from flood could be as high as $40 billion — $10 billion, a figure more than the government’s initial estimate.

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India-Pakistan

Five FC soldiers martyred in two attacks in Balochistan

2021-02-20

[Dawn] Five members of the Frontier Corps
...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and anti-smuggling operations....
were martyred and two others injured in two attacks in different areas of the province.

In one incident, which took place in the western bypass area of the bustling provincial capital

...that’s Quetta...

on Thursday, an FC soldier was martyred and two others were maimed when a remote-controlled bomb fixed to a cycle of violence parked at the roadside went kaboom!, as an FC vehicle was passing by.

"The kaboom took place near the official vehicle of the Frontier Corps in which one FC soldier was martyred on the spot and two other soldiers were maimed," senior police officer Shaukat Mohmand told Dawn, adding that the blast badly damaged the vehicle.

"An improvised bomb strapped to a cycle of violence parked at the roadside exploded with a remote control," the police officer said.

Personnel of FC and police rushed to the area after the blast and took victims of the blast to a hospital.

In the second incident, four soldiers of Frontier Corps were martyred in an attack by gunnies on their check-post in Kahan area of Kohlu district.

Sources said the gunnies opened fire on Zaman Khan check-post the other day which resulted in the martyrdom of four FC soldiers while another was injured.

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India-Pakistan

11 suspects arrested, major terror bid foiled in several operations across Balochistan

2017-12-04

[DAWN] At least 11 suspected forces of Evil were locked away
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
and a major terror bid foiled in several operations carried out by security and law enforcement personnel in different parts of Balochistan

...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
on Sunday.

Security officials said 11 suspected forces of Evil belonging to a proscribed organization were arrested in different parts of Balochistan.

In another operation, four improvised bombs were recovered from the the province's Killa Saifullah area, security officials said. A bomb disposal squad was called in to defuse the bombs, the officials added.

In the Kohlu district, Levies' personnel foiled a major terror plot after they carried out an operation against suspected forces of Evil in the area, an official said.

The operation was carried out at a suspected terrorist hideout late last night after Levies officials received a tip-off from intelligence agencies, Deputy Commissioner (DC) Kohlu Agha Nadeem Akhtar said in a presser held in the morning.

Though no arrests were reported, Akhtar claimed that officials had recovered a sizeable cache of weapons, including 181 shells of RPG-7 rockets, 172 RPG fuse and 80 RDS.

Akhtar added that the action was carried out under Pakistain Army's ongoing Operation Radd-ul-Fasaad, which was launched in February in the aftermath of a resurgence of terror attacks in the country.

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Former minister Gazeen Marri detained in Quetta jail under MPO

2017-09-30

[DAWN] After an Anti-terrorism court in Sibi granted bail to Nawabzada Gazeen Marri, the son of Nawab Khair Bakhsh Marri in a 2004 murder case on Friday, Quetta district administration detained him under Section 3 of the Maintenance of Public Order.

According to a blurb issued by the Quetta deputy commissioner, Marri was shifted to district jail Quetta amid tight security under the MPO.

Section 3 of the MPO states: "The government, if satisfied that with a view to preventing any person from acting in any manner prejudicial to public safety or the maintenance of public order, may by an order in writing direct his arrest and detention."

Earlier today, ATC judge Muhammad Rafiq Langove granted bail to the former home minister in connection with a murder case registered against Marri in 2004 at the Manjara levies station Kohlu, and asked him to submit surety bonds worth Rs0.4 million.

A landmine blast in Kohlu's Mavand tehsil in June 2004 had killed civilians. Subsequently, the Levies had registered murder and terrorism cases against Gazeen Marri.

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12 Baloch Republican Army militants surrender to security forces

2017-08-31

[DAWN] Twelve members of the Baloch Republican Army (BRA) surrendered to security forces in Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
on Wednesday, a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said.

According to the statement, the holy warriors relinquished their weapons and ammunition to security forces in Balochistan's Noshki area after "an intelligence effort", the army said.

The statement added that among the holy warriors who surrendered were two "mid-tier" holy warriors identified as Wali Khan, a resident of District Kohlu and Karghani, a resident of Sui.

Separately, 39 suspects, including eight Afghans, were apprehended in intelligence-based operations (IBO) conducted jointly by the Pakistain Rangers, Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....
Police and intelligence agencies in Lahore, Faisalabad
...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after...
and Islamabad, the ISPR statement said.

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ISPR says 4 suspects killed during security operations in Kohlu, Dera Bugti

2017-08-07

[DAWN] At least four suspected forces of Evil were reportedly killed on Sunday during an intelligence based operation carried out by Frontier Corps
...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and a..the Antwerp-based Salafist organization that had campaigned to introduce Sharia law to Belgium before single-handedly making Belgium the highest per capita supplier of jihadis to Syria in Europe. There was a big trial in Antwerp in 2015, but most of those convicted were in absentia...nti-smuggling operations....
, Balochistan

...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
, on suspected terrorist camps in Kohlu and Dera Bugti areas.

According to a statement issued by the military's media wing from Rawalpindi, one FC soldier sustained minor injuries during the exchange of fire with the suspects.

The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) claimed that the killed suspects were allegedly involved in extortion, kidnapping for ransom, attacks on security forces and other sabotage activities.

During the operation, terrorist camps were dismantled, while improvised bombs and communication equipment were also recovered, ISPR reported.

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India-Pakistan

Security forces stop terror attack in Balochistan

2017-03-19

Security forces on Saturday foiled a terror bid by seizing a significant quantity of arms and explosives in Balochistan’s Kohlu district.

“The Frontier Corps (FC) and personnel of a intelligence agency conducted a raid and recovered 28 kilograms of explosives, six rockets and other weapons,” said a security official.

The official added that the compound which was raided belonged to “miscreants of an outlawed militant organisation”.

No arrest was made during the raid.

In a separate incident, FC forces and personnel of an intelligence agency arrested four suspected militants during a raid in Quetta’s Smungli area.

Security forces claimed to have recovered five SMGs, three rockets and other weapons from their possession.

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India-Pakistan

13 ‘militants’ killed in Kohlu, Kech

2016-03-23

[DAWN] QUETTA: At least 13 suspected Lions of Islam of a banned
...the word banned seems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organization, including two ‘commanders’, were killed in festivities with security forces in Kohlu and Kech districts on Monday.

Official sources said that personnel of Frontier Corps
...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and anti-smuggling operations....
and intelligence agencies were conducting a search operation on information about presence of Lions of Islam in mountainous area of Nasau in Kohlu district when Lions of Islam started firing on them.

FC and intelligence personnel returned fire and ensuing gunbattle continued for several hours, resulting in the death of 12 Lions of Islam of the banned Baloch Liberation Army.

"Yes, 12 Lions of Islam of BLA were killed in gunbattle," FC front man Khan Wasey said, adding that commanders Jamir Khan and Baloch Khan were among the dead. "Forces were continuing the operation against remaining Lions of Islam in the area," he said.

Arms and ammunitions were found in the myrmidons’ hideouts.

In another operation carried out by security forces in Tump area of Kech district, one myrmidon was killed in an exchange of fire and four suspected Lions of Islam were tossed in the slammer
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
," Khan Wasey said. The suspects are being interrogated.

There are also reports about a search operation under way in different areas of Bolan district, a security bigshot told Dawn.

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