Quetta (Balochistan), June 12: Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) tonight said its freedom fighters maintained control over major highways by executing 11 operations over a period of 12 days in Balochistan and vowed to continue enforcing economic blockades until Pakistan ends plunder of resources of the occupied territory.
More than 36 vehicles were destroyed and two main bridges on the CPEC route were demolished using explosives during this period, BLA spokesman Jeeyand Baloch said in a statement to NVI.
In these attacks, BLA targeted convoys associated with the Saindak mines exploitative project, vehicles involved in transporation of fuel, and other vehicles providing economic benefits to the occupying Pakistani state, he said.
“The rampant theft of our precious national resources such as Saindak, Reko Diq, Gwadar, Sui, and coal is what provides the financial fuel for this tyrannical domination of the occupying Pakistani military,” he said.
He said the strategic imperatives of the ongoing war for national liberation in Balochistan demands that a decisive blow be dealt to the economic lifeline of the occupying state.
“It is an established and universal principle of armed national resistance against colonial subjugation that the economic interests of the occupying power must be rendered insecure, unstable, and a losing proposition to the extent that the strategic and military cost of maintaining its forced occupation over the occupied land far exceeds the profits reaped from the plunder of its resources,” the BLA spokesman said.
“Until Balochistan is transformed into an inevitable economic burden for the occupying state, it is impossible to halt its blind military adventurism and the horrific cycle of Baloch genocide,” he said.
The BLA spokesman asserted that “the main highways passing through Balochistan are not merely ordinary communication or travel routes, but are colonial trade arteries through which the wealth of our motherland is ruthlessly squeezed and transferred to Punjab.
“The forced and rampant exploitation of the resources of an enslaved homeland can never be in the broader interest of its local people.”
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He declared that “This economic blockade enforced by the Baloch Liberation Army around the occupier and the targeting of exploitative companies’ vehicles is not a manifestation of public enmity, but a legitimate, legal, and indispensable defensive response aimed at ensuring Baloch national survival, protecting the coast and resources, and shattering the expansionist colonial designs of the occupying state, an effort that will continue with even greater intensity.”
He added, Under international laws, the United Nations Charter, and the established principles of national defense, the subjugated and oppressed people of any occupied region possess the fundamental and inalienable right to reject by force any form of coercive projects imposed on their land.
“The so-called development projects constructed by the occupying power by violating the will and sovereignty of the local Baloch population are, in reality, a deep and deceitful conspiracy to prolong the colonial occupation and to reduce the Baloch nation to an economic, political, and geographical minority on their own historical land.”
Baloch said all the foreign and local investment projects, including CPEC, are not designed for the prosperity of the Baloch people, but to strengthen the military machinery engaged in their genocide.
“Therefore, paralyzing the logistic supply lines, communication networks, and infrastructure of these exploitative projects is an indispensable and recognized part of the struggle for national liberation in accordance with international law,” he added.
“Our war is a war for the complete sovereignty, national dignity, and unconditional freedom of the Baloch nation; and until foreign occupation, exploitative plunder, and colonial oppression are completely eradicated from the Baloch soil, our economic blockade and military resistance will continue with full intensity and scope,” he emphasised. (NVI)
