The United Nations (UN) should immediately designate the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) as a terrorist organisation due to its violent history of asymmetric warfare, targeting of civilians, and threats to regional and international infrastructure. Arguments and developments surrounding this push centre on undeniable facts which expose the ugly face of the terrorist outfit. The BLA […]
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Taliban must act against TTP, BLA or face self-defence action, Pakistan tells UNSC
Pakistan has warned the UN Security Council that the time for corrective action by the Afghan Taliban is “rapidly running out”, saying Islamabad will act in self-defence whenever necessary if terrorist groups operating from Afghan soil continue to attack Pakistani civilians and security forces. Speaking during a Security Council meeting on Afghanistan on Monday, Pakistan’s […]
BLA’s War on Women
There is an image the Balochistan Liberation Army wants the world to see: a woman in militant fatigues, renamed as resistance and pushed across sympathetic media feeds. There is another image that it fears more. A nurse sitting before cameras in Quetta, saying she had been misled, trapped and blackmailed. A teenage girl stopped on […]
Devil Exposed: How BLA Exploits Women and Youth?
The Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) has definitively stripped away any remaining pretence of being a legitimate political resistance movement. Long masquerading as an indigenous campaign fighting for local rights, it has evolved into a highly manipulative terrorist enterprise. To sustain its violent campaign, the group now relies heavily on a deeply concerning strategy: the systematic […]
BLA: A Terrorist Entity
The recent attack on a train in Quetta has once again brought into focus a question that should not really require much debate. The Baluchistan Liberation Army, or BLA, is a terrorist organisation and ought to be treated as one. The train attack was not some isolated eruption of violence. It was part of a […]
BLA’s War on Balochistan
The suicide bombing at Chaman Phatak in Quetta has arrived like cold water thrown over national morale that, only a day earlier, had been lifted by words of appreciation from abroad for mediation in the Iran crisis, with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio acknowledging that Pakistan had done an “admirable job” as the primary […]
BLA Stealing Childhoods in Balochistan
The rescue of Khair-un-Nisa should disturb Pakistan for reasons larger than the plot itself. A minor girl from Turbat, according to Balochistan Chief Minister Sarfaraz Bugti, was not merely found in the orbit of a banned group. She was allegedly being prepared for a suicide attack in Islamabad, placed under psychological pressure, threatened through her […]
BLA, BYC and Biased Activists!
It is not easy to comprehend the complicated issue of terrorism in Balochistan. Much of the credit for this complexity goes to the self-styled activists pretending to be the sole flagbearers of human rights. Sensational posts on social media platform ‘X’ (formerly Twitter) highlighting the plight of a particular ethnic community are not enough to […]
Australia sanctions BLA for terror attacks in Pakistan
Australia on Friday imposed sanctions on the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) and three of its senior leaders, according to a statement from Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s office. “The Australian Government has today imposed counter-terrorism financing sanctions on the Balochistan Liberation Army and three senior leaders for their engagement in and support of terrorist attacks,” said […]
Sanctioning BLA
Australia’s decision to impose counter-terrorism financing sanctions on the Balochistan Liberation Army and three of its senior figures has given Pakistan a much-needed opening in its international campaign against a group that has made civilian terror part of its political method. Canberra’s foreign minister, Senator the Hon Penny Wong, noted how the BLA had conducted […]