Quetta, Aug 17 (NVI) Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) today claimed to have killed 26 personnel of Pakistani forces and associates and injured several others in 22 attacks across occupied Balochistan over a period of 8 days.
The BLA fighters also destroyed several police stations, security posts and bridges and rendered 9 commercial and exploitative vehicles useless under an economic blockade, its spokesman Jeeyand Baloch said in a statement.
The fighters carried out 22 attacks in various parts of Balochistan between August 9 and 15, targeting the occupying Pakistani army, agents of state ‘death squads’, and military and economic installations in 22 different operations, he said.
“As a result of these intense attacks, 26 personnel of the occupying army and death squads were killed and several were injured, while an operative of a death squad was taken into custody alive during a raid,” he added.
During continuous clashes with the occupying army, BLA lost two fighters, the spokesman said.
“The cowardly army, rattled by its humiliating defeat, continued its spree of barbarity by killing forcibly disappeared detainees in custody in fake encounters and ruthlessly bombing civilian populations,” he said.
According to details shared by the spokesman, the biggest attack was carried out in Kalat district of Balochistan on August 12 when BLA fighters hit a convoy of Pakistan army in Rodenjo area by detonating a remote-controlled vehicle-borne IED.
As a result of this powerful explosion, 17 Pakistani soldiers were killed on the spot and a large number were injured, he said.
Separately, in Surab district, BLA fighters destroyed another occupying army vehicle in an IED blast, killing 3 personnel and injuring several others, he said.
On the same day, the BLA fighters completely destroyed a police station in Chagai by detonating a bomb.
Meanwhile, at Bartagzi, an armed attack was launched on vehicles of the occupying army, causing severe damage.
On the same night, in Yakmach Bazaar, BLA fighters rendered three commercial vehicles useless by opening fire on them under the economic blockade, while seizing one vehicle.
On August 13, BLA fighters targeted occupying Pakistani army personnel in a fierce armed attack in Nuski district, resulting in the killing of 2 soldiers.
“After suffering a humiliating defeat and heavy losses at the hands of the BLA fighters on the battlefield, the occupying Pakistani army, true to form, demonstrated its traditional cowardice, deceitful tactics, and war crimes,” the spokesman said.
“The occupying forces staged a fake encounter to murder three unarmed, forcibly disappeared Baloch youths who had been detained and severely tortured in their torture cells for years, claiming they were killed in the Chedgi clash.
“To mask its shame and operational failure, the occupying army’s public relations division (DG ISPR) presented the extrajudicial murder of these defenseless prisoners as a fake ‘encounter’ to the media, serving as open proof of their moral bankruptcy and savagery,” he said.
“Fearing attacks by freedom fighters and ground retreat, the cowardly occupying army trampled all international humanitarian laws and rules of engagement by carrying out brutal, blind bombardment using warplanes on unarmed civilian populations in Gidar (Gondan), Surab, on August 12.
“As a result of this savage terrorism and indiscriminate aerial aggression, 27 innocent citizens embraced martyrdom, including young children, women, men, and elderly persons,” he said.
“The Baloch Liberation Army makes it clear that the innocent blood of the Baloch people, the extrajudicial killings of prisoners, and the bombardment of civilian populations will be accounted for to the last penny on the battlefield against the occupying enemy, and this struggle will undoubtedly continue with increased intensity and force until the establishment of an independent Balochistan,” the spokesman said. (NVI)
