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Balochistan: Freedom fighters target Pakistani military at multiple places

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Representative Pic of Baloch fighters

Quetta, May 9 (NVI) Baloch freedom fighters today attacked the Pakistani military at multiple places in Turbat and some other places of Kech district in Balochistan.

One of the attacks was on a post of the Pakistani military on the CPEC route in Dehat area of Turbat.

There was firing at the post accompanied by loud explosions, but further details were not immediately available.

Another military post was attacked in Ginna area of Turbat. More details were awaited.

In Turbat only, a military post in Nasirabad area was attacked with Rocket-Propelled Grenades (RPGs), another post was targeted in Hairabad and one more in Meerabad areas.

Baloch freedom fighters also ambushed a unit of Pakistani forces in Kohar area of Tump in Kech district of Balochistan.

There was heavy firing accompanied by loud explosions.

Details of these attacks were not known immediately, particularly as some of them were still continuing.

Baloch freedom fighters also targeted vehicles carrying minerals in Kadkocha area of Mastung district of Balochistan, damaging 6 of them. (NVI)

TTP slams Pakistan Army over killing of Masood Azhar’s family but skips mention of India

Chief of terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad Masood Azhar (File photo)

Peshawar, May 8 (NVI) Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) today held the “traitorous” Pakistan Army responsible for the killing of the family of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) chief Masood Azhar in an Indian attack, saying the “information” was provided by this “professional killer group”.

Significantly, the TTP made no mention of India in the statement in which it expressed “deep sorrow and grief over this tragic incident in which civilians including the family of Maulana Masood Azhar were martyred at various places.”

Azhar’s 10 family members were killed in the aerial attacks by India at the JeM headquarters in Bahawalpur in Punjab Province of Pakistan during the intervening night of May 6 and 7.

“On this occasion, we express that according to the authentic information received, the information provided for this attack was from the traitorous and pro-Western army of Pakistan, which is nothing new,” said the statement issued by TTP spokesman Muhammad Khorasani.

Sharing the grief of Azhar’s family as “our grief”, he said, “This incident once again highlights the fact that the current Pakistani army has in fact become a professional killer group… This army has repeatedly bathed its own people in dust and blood at the behest of foreigners.”

The TTP spokesman said, “The black history of this (Pakistan) army is a witness that it has always traded with Islamists, scholars and Mujahideen. This is the same army that, on American instructions, stained the streets of the country with the blood of the scholars of truth, and arrested the Mujahideen and handed them over to the infidels.”

Emphasising that the Pakistan Army’s “hands are stained with the blood of unarmed Afghans, scholars, and Mujahideen of Islam,” he appealed to the Pakistani people, especially the scholars and the Islamist class, “not to fall for their deception again and again.” (NVI)

Balochistan: BLA claims killing of 14 Pakistani soldiers

Special Tactical Operations Squad (STOQ) of Baloch Liberation Army (BLA).

Quetta, May 6 (NVI) Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) tonight claimed to have killed 14 Pakistani Army personnel killed in two separate attacks in Balochistan.

BLA’s Special Tactical Operations Squad (STOS) today targeted a vehicle of the occupying Pakistani army convoy at Shorkand in Mach area of Bolan using a remote-controlled IED, its spokesman Jeeyand Baloch said.

As a result of the explosion, all 12 personnel, including Special Operations Commander Tariq Imran and Subedar Umar Farooq of the occupying army were killed, he said.

The enemy army vehicle was completely destroyed in the explosion, he said.

In another operation, BLA operatives targeted the bomb disposal squad of the occupying Pakistani army using a remote-controlled IED in Khech area, Kulg Tigran, yesterday, while they were engaged in route clearance, he said.

Two enemy army personnel were killed in the blast, the spokesman said. (NVI)

Pahalgam effect: Pakistan can break into pieces in case of war with India

Site where terrorists struck in Pahalgam in Kashmir today. Body of a victim can also be seen in the picture.

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New Delhi: Ever since the ghastly carnage carried out by a group of terrorists in Pahalgam on April 22, a hysteria of war between India and Pakistan has been developing and gaining momentum.

There is widespread expectation, not only among Indians but in Pakistan too, that India would take military action, bigger than a surgical strike or a Balakot-like airstrike.

Many Indians feel that the one-off actions like a surgical strike or an airstrike would not suffice as the country has been suffering for too long because of terrorism-sponsored by Pakistan.

But, at the same time, it has to be understood that any “big” military action can lead to a full-fledged war between two Nuclear neighbours. It may be recalled that the Balakot airstrike had brought the two countries to the brink of a war, which was averted somehow at that time.

But because of the repeated gruesome acts of terror originating from Pakistan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has vowed that “terrorism will not go unpunished”.

He has promised to the nation that punishment to “every terrorist, their handlers and their backers”, which would be “beyond their imagination”, and the culprits would be chased to the “ends of the Earth”.

Now that the pledge has been made by a person who is seen as ‘a strong man meaning business’, everybody is anxiously waiting for it to be delivered.

While a series of non-military steps have been taken by the Government of India to ‘punish’ Pakistan, a guessing game is going on regarding the nature of the military action, if any, India would take.

So, in case of a war, will India achieve its prime objective — end of cross-border terrorism? Possibly, nobody can guarantee that.

But one thing is almost certain. A war at this moment can be extremely damaging for Pakistan and even result in its balkanisation. There are a number of reasons for this.

Pakistani military under deep stress:

The Pakistan Army is currently going through the worst phase as it is engaged in two intense internal wars besides a looming external threat.

The internal wars are with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and the armed Baloch groups fighting for independence of Balochistan. The external threat is from Taliban-ruled Afghanistan.

The two internal wars are causing huge damage to the Pakistani military in terms of men and material, and more importantly to its image.

Not a day passes when the Pakistani military does not lose multiple personnel and assets because of persistent attacks by TTP and Baloch fighters mainly belonging to Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), Baloch Liberation Front (BLF), Baloch National Army (BNA) and Baloch Raaji Aajoi Sangar (BRAS).

The regular setbacks and reversals in the battle field mean that the military personnel have to eternally maintain high alert just to save their lives, which is very damaging for the morale of any force.

The Pakistan Army’s ‘powerful’ image received a massive blow last month when a few dozen fighters of BLA, in an unprecedented and audacious action, seized and hijacked a moving train – Jaffar Express – in Balochistan.

The train was ferrying hundreds of off-duty soldiers, who were taken into custody by the BLA fighters after releasing civilian passengers on March 11. The standoff lasted over 48 hours, during which the BLA fighters killed 214 soldiers, according to the outfit.

Although the military tried hard to suppress the gravity of the BLA attack and the casualties suffered, the incident was a huge public embarrassment for the force and clearly shook the conscience of its leadership.

The pain of Pakistan Army Chief General Asim Munir came out on April 16 when he, while addressing a function, tried to downplay the successes of the Baloch fighters and claimed that a mere “1500” of them cannot separate Balochistan from Pakistan.

Notwithstanding General Munir’s claim, the Baloch fighters continue to bleed the Pakistani military every day through multiple attacks across Balochistan, sending out repeated messages that the occupied territory is not safe for them.

Similarly, the TTP, or the Pakistani Taliban, kills and injures dozens of military personnel in attacks every day as part of its “all-out war” against the “most corrupt” force.

To “break the back” of the Pakistan Army, the TTP has vowed to target not only the soldiers and their installations, but also the military-run business and commercial units, considering these as their “real strength”.

During the year 2024, TTP claimed to have killed 1284 personnel of the Pakistani armed forces and injured 1661 in 1758 operations.

The TTP, an extremely deadly organisation with the sole goal of defeating the Pakistani military, has vowed to intensify its activities under a special operation – codenamed ‘Al Khandaq’ – launched on March 15.

Under this operation, the outfit has mobilised thousands of its ‘Mujahideen’ across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan and Punjab province and they carry out dozens of casualty-causing attacks daily on the Pakistani military, secret agents and their installations.

Videos often emerge on the social media showing the TTP cadres ‘patrolling’ certain areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa or setting up security pickets. These are aimed at giving an impression that those areas have already been ‘liberated’ from the Pakistani military.

Afghanistan factor:

Adding to these heavy-costing internal wars is the external pressure looming large for the Pakistani military on the country’s western border.

Ever since the Taliban seized power in Kabul in August 2021, tensions have remained high between Afghanistan and Pakistan, particularly on the border which has been the scene of repeated armed confrontations.

The Taliban refuses to recognise the border, called the Durand Line, and wants it to be erased so that Pashtuns on either side of the divide can live with each other without any fence.

Considering the Taliban’s objective, a wary Pakistan has been forced to deploy a large number of troops along the border with Afghanistan.

Pakistan also requires a large strength of its troops on the Afghanistan border to curb, what it calls, cross-frontier movement by TTP and Taliban cadres.

Pakistan claims that TTP has bases in Afghanistan and that the Afghan nationals cross over to carry out acts of terrorism. These allegations are repeatedly denied by TTP as well as the Taliban regime of Afghanistan.

Because of the two intense internal wars and the Afghan border factor, the Pakistani military is already stretched out to a large extent and under huge pressure, with possibly dented morale.

In the recent times, particularly after the Jaffar Express incident, questions have been raised in the media, including by the military veterans, on the working and prowess of the military.

Some sections openly started talking that Balochistan had almost slipped away and the Pakistan Army had failed miserably in holding the occupied territory.

There have also been questions like: ‘If the Pakistan Army is not able to protect itself, how can it safeguard the country?”

It is because of these questions over the ‘macho’ image of the force, analysts feel, that the Pakistan Army leadership would have ordered the Pahalgam carnage so that the attention could be diverted by igniting military tensions with India.

The aim, possibly, would be to rebuild Pakistan Army’s dampened image through some propagandist posturing vis-à-vis India, as it can be a tool to evoke public sympathy and support under the garb of nationalism.

Hence, predictably, one sees the jingoistic statements being issued by the Pakistan Army about being ‘ever prepared to teach India a lesson’ and so on.

But the ground reality is much different and extremely dangerous for Pakistan as there is a strong possibility that its weak military would have to face military confrontation on 4 fronts – with India on the Eastern front, with TTP etc in the North, with ever-strengthening Baloch freedom fighters in the South and with Afghanistan on the Western border.

In such a scenario, Pakistan Army definitely would have to surrender within days, like in 1971, unless it wants to see butchering of its personnel on 4 fronts.

The reason being that if Pakistan army engages in a war with India, it will have to reduce troops in Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the Afghan border.

That can be an opportunity for the people of Balochistan to give that one last push to achieve their dream of independence from Pakistan, like East Pakistan achieved in 1971 to become Bangladesh.

India may also help in that process by giving military and other logistical support to the Baloch people.

Similarly, reduction of troops in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa can create a situation where the Taliban – both Afghan Taliban and Pakistani Taliban – step up their operations to defeat the Pakistani military and separate Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from Pakistan.

Economic condition:

One more critical factor going against Pakistan right now is its extremely bad economic condition.

The country is surviving on the doles given by some global funding agencies like IMF and it barely has any foreign reserves to even buy the necessary items.

So, it is impossible for the country with such desperate conditions to afford a war, which puts huge stress on the economic and financial resources of a country.

India, on the other hand, has a very robust and big economy and hence can tolerate a war.

Nuclear:

Possession of nuclear weapons by Pakistan has been seen as a major deterrent to a war between the two countries since the leaders of that country have often threatened to use it if pushed to the wall.

But this threat, in all probability, is a bluff that Pakistan plays to protect itself.

Two developments in the past – Kargil conflict of 1999 and the Balakot airstrike of 2019 — have called that bluff already.

Were Pakistan really serious about using the nuclear weapon, it would have done so on either of these occasions, since both the times the country had to eat a humble pie.

In the future too, Pakistan would not be able to use the nuclear weapon, particularly when the US and other world powers are watching.

So, if the nuclear threat is ignored, conditions are heavily against Pakistan and a war with India could lead to its disintegration.

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TTP trying to garner maximum public support against Pakistan Army

Leaders of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) -- File Pic

Peshwar, May 6 (NVI): While the clouds of war between Pakistan and India hover, Pashtun-dominated Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is trying to garner maximum public support against the Pakistan Army in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province so that it could be defeated at the earliest.

The TTP today issued “a message to the brave people of South Waziristan”, saying the Pakistan Army is not only its “enemy” but a “common enemy” of all the people of the region “because this oppressor has occupied our land”.

The statement, issued by TTP spokesman Muhammad Khorasani, said the Pakistani military has “oppressed” the inhabitants of the region, destroyed their civilization, culture, honour and dignity and “forcibly occupied” natural resources of the region.

“All these are our common things… We, the scholars, leaders and all the people of South Waziristan, submit to you that the enemy (Pakistan Army) we are fighting against is not only our enemy, that is, the enemy of the Mujahideen only. It is a common enemy of all of us, because the land that this oppressor has occupied is our common land,” it said.

The statement said that the “ups and downs of this long war have taught us all a lesson about what the enemy’s goals are regarding this war. It must be understood that the current war is not Pakistan’s, but that of the outsiders (foreign powers), to achieve the goals they had set hundreds of years ago, for which they have always fought here.”

It said the main reason for defeat of all foreign powers in this land every time has been the unity among the scholars, elders and the youth.

“Even today, if all sections of our society come on to the same page, then by the grace and mercy of Allah Almighty, it is hoped that this (Pakistan) Army of gold-bought slaves will very soon see this land from afar,” the statement said.

“We are the children of this nation. Without the nation, we are nothing. We will not provide the nation with an opportunity to complain. Yes, still we are human beings and can make mistakes and so can the nation. So, if any problem arises, we will all try to solve it together,” it said. (NVI)

Controversial law passed by POJK Assembly, 3,000 local Govt represesentatives left useless & crying

Representative Pic of Pak-occupied Jammu & Kashmir.

Muzaffarabad (POJK), May 5 (NVI) The so-called Assembly of Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir, a puppet grouping selected by the Pakistani military, has shocked the locals by passing a controversial law under which only its elected members will have the full authority to identify and use local government development funds schemes.

The new law, which has rendered around 3,000 elected local government councillors redundant, has been significantly enacted at a time tensions are escalating between India and Pakistan and two countries are at the brink of a war.

It may be noted that on February 19, 2025, the High Court of POJK had issued a direction that development funds should be spent only through elected local government representatives in accordance with the Local Government Act of 1990.

But the POJK Assembly passed a new law, according to which only the assembly members will identify all local government schemes.

The new law was supported by all the parties in the coalition government, including the members of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (Forward Bloc), the Pakistan Muslim League (N) and the Pakistan Peoples Party.

All the MLAs, including Qayyum Niazi of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, opposed the bill.

Each year, billions of Rupees are spent on various developmental projects. In the current financial year, this amount was Rs 28 billion, out of which about Rs 4 billion was allocated for local government.

Before the court’s decision, about Rs 500 million had been spent by the Assembly members. However, after the court’s decision, it was temporarily stopped.

Now, after the new law, the assembly members will have direct control over these funds, and they will determine the development schemes themselves.

It should be noted that earlier money was spent through the assembly members and it will still be spent through them. The difference is that earlier it was spent without any law and now it will be spent under the law.

Local government representatives and civil society have termed the move as a major setback for local democracy.

According to them, the decision not only promotes centralization of powers but also increases the chances of corruption. (NVI)

Pakistan conducts propaganda stunt while escalating military tensions with India

Representative pic of Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

Muzaffarabad (POJK), May 5 (NVI) While escalating tensions with India, Pakistan has resorted to a farcical and misleading propaganda war, for which it is trying to use some international media outlets besides the domestic ones.

As part of such a stunt, Information Minister Ataullah Tarar today took a team of media persons to select places of Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK), which he claimed were going to be targeted by India.

He claimed to those media persons, on whatever basis, that India was viewing these venues as terrorist training camps, which could be attacked.

The media delegation, which was ferried to and fro in a military helicopter, was taken to Gojra Charota and Bela Noorshah.

Locals said the media persons were deliberately taken to such areas where there are no terrorist training camps and are inhabited mostly by Shias, who resent Pakistan and violence.

“Terrorist training camps openly operate in PoJK. But the media persons were not taken to those places by the Pakistani Information Minister. Those places were not shown to the media persons,” a local told NVI.

“The media persons were taken to normal civilian areas, just to claim there was no wrong happening in POJK,” he said.

The tour was clearly a propaganda stunt aimed at misleading the international community besides the Pakistani public, since in this age, satellites are clearly able to identify and scan the places where terror training camps are functional in POJK since decades under direct patronage of the Pakistani military.

If the Pakistan government were really serious, it would let the international media persons freely roam across POJK to find for themselves whether terror training camps exist or not. It would conduct a tour of caged birds.  (NVI)

Balochistan: Outrage after Pakistan army dumps over 50 mutilated bodies in hospital

11 coal miners from Pak's minority Hazara community shot dead in Balochistan
Representative pic of killings in Balochistan

Shaal (Balochistan), May 4 (NVI) In a shocking development, occupying Pakistan Army has dumped in the Civil Hospital here bodies of over 50 people suspected to have been killed in fake encounters in Balochistan.

The bodies have been dumped in the morgue of the hospital in an insane manner, with many of them being out one above the other like a pile, according to credible sources.

All the bodies bear bullet marks, making it clear that they have been shot dead, the sources said.

It is suspected that the bodies are of those Baloch people who were forcibly and illegally abducted by the Pakistani military from time to time.

Expressing outrage over the development, Baloch National Movement (BNM) has urged international human rights organizations to investigate the matter urgently, help identify the bodies and to pressure the Pakistani government to treat the dead with dignity.

“Families must be allowed to bury their loved ones according to their religious and cultural traditions,” said BNM spokesman Qazi Rehan.

“This incident is a stark reflection of escalating human rights abuses. Just days ago, after the martyrdom of Baloch Sarmchars (Freedom Fighters)in Kech district, their bodies were also seized by the Pakistan Army.

“Despite public protests by the families, the bodies were not returned—further exposing the state’s inhumane and oppressive practices,” he said.

He added that enforced disappearances and custodial killings will not suppress the Baloch national liberation movement.

He said Pakistani Army’s efforts to stoke a war-like atmosphere with India and incite war fervor in Punjab appear to be a cover for intensifying brutal military aggression in Balochistan.

“It is increasingly evident that the true target is not a foreign adversary, but the Baloch nation,” Rehan said

BNM’s Human Rights Department ‘Paank’ also  raised alarm over the discovery of so many mutilated bodies in Shaal.

 

 

Reports suggest that decomposing corpses are being piled on top of each other, creating dangerous and inhumane conditions.

Paank states that over the past month, more than two dozen individuals have allegedly been killed in suspected fake encounters carried out by Pakistani security forces.

While around a dozen victims have been identified and buried by their families, the rest remain unclaimed and unidentified, it said.

Their bodies lie without recognition or dignity, further highlighting the scale of the crisis, Paank said.

The presence of severely mutilated remains points to possible acts of torture, extrajudicial killings, and enforced disappearances—grave violations under international law.

Paank has emphasized that this is not only a public health emergency but also a human rights catastrophe that demands immediate action.

Paank has called on the Government of Pakistan and national and international human rights institutions to respond urgently by initiating independent forensic investigations, disclosing the identities of the deceased where possible, handing over the bodies to their families, holding those responsible accountable, and allowing access to international observers to assess the situation first hand.

In its statement, Paank reiterated that the people of Balochistan are entitled to justice, truth, and dignity.

It warned that continued silence and inaction will only deepen the suffering of a population already subjected to long-standing violence and impunity. (NVI)

Balochistan: BLA claims killing of 13 Pakistani soldiers in a recent clash

Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) fighters at some undisclosed location. File Pic.

Quetta, May 3 (NVI) Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) has claimed to have killed 13 Pakistani soldiers in a major clash in Balochistan in which the outfit lost three of its fighters.

In a belated statement, the BLA said the troops of the occupying Pakistan Army tried to surround the freedom fighters in Dannuk area of Turbat district in Balochistan during the intervening night of April 29-30.

“The clashes, which started at 3:30 am, continued until sunrise. Freedom fighters remained fixed in their positions for three hours and dealt fierce blows to the enemy,” BLA spokesman Jeeyand Baloch said.

During the operation, the BLA fighters also targeted occupying army’s convoy, he said.

In these battles, 13 personnel of the Pakistan Army were eliminated and several others were wounded, the spokesman said.

The BLA lost 3 freedom fighters, including Sangat Nabeel alias Ali, Sangat Feroz Sarban alias Nood Bandag and Sangat Muhammad Umar Zaka alias Guru, he said.

Earlier on April 8, BLA killed 9 Pakistani soldiers and injured several others in a clash that went on for several hours in Kapori area of Dukki in Balochistan

Three BLA freedom fighters — Sangat Abdul Wahab alias Deedag, Sangat Rahim Khan Marri alias Sarang and Sangat Zahid Ali alias Wash Dil—were martyred in this battle, Jeeyand Baloch said.

The BLA paid rich “tributes to all its freedom fighters who gave new life to the struggle for national liberation by sacrificing their precious lives,” he said.

“Despite the enemy’s modern war equipment and military superiority, our freedom fighters crushed the enemy’s arrogance with the weapons of determination, courage and belief,” the BLA spokesman said.

“These sacrifices of the martyrs are capital of our morale and the foundation of our resistance ideology, which is impossible to forget,” he said.

“BLA once again reiterates its resolve that we will complete this holy mission of the martyrs, demolish every front of the enemy and will breathe only upon the liberation of Baloch motherland from the chains of slavery,” he asserted. (NVI)

Balochistan: Freedom fighters launch massive operation, virtually control city

Quetta: Scores of Baloch freedom fighters launched a massive operation in Mangocher city of Kalat district in Balochistan, attacking the main camp of occupying Pakistani military and seizing control of the major highway and key government buildings.

The operation began in the evening of Pakistani and was continuing as the midnight passed.

Sounds of heavy gunfire and explosions resonated the city, implying the intensity of the attack, locals reported as the situation remained tense.

It was a multi-pronged operation, with some fighters attacking the main camp of the Pakistani military.

Some others seized control of the main highway, checking vehicles for the military personnel who travel in the garb of civilians in public transport since the security vehicles are regularly targeted by the Baloch fighters.

Others took control of a bank and a court and set those on fire.

Government weapons and a vehicle have also been seized.

Four policemen were taken into custody, and their weapons reportedly seized.

The rebels also freed 10 prisoners being transported by police personnel who were taken into custody by the fighters.

The operation is still going on. (NVI)

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