Balochistan'da İki Operasyonda 12 Terörist Öldürüldü
Güvenlik güçleri, Balochistan'ın Washuk ve Mastung ilçelerinde düzenlenen iki istihbarat temelli operasyonda toplam 12 teröristi etkisiz hale getirdi. Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) tarafından yapılan açıklamaya göre, 'yüksek tempolu' olarak nitelendirilen operasyonlar, Balochistan'da Fitna-al-Hindustan'a karşı yürütülen 'Radul Fitna' terörle mücadele kampanyası kapsamında gerçekleştirildi. Açıklamada, operasyonların bölgedeki terör unsurlarının etkinliğini kırmaya yönelik olduğu belirtildi. Bu müdahaleler, Pakistan'ın Balochistan eyaletinde uzun süredir devam eden güvenlik operasyonlarının bir parçası olarak dikkat çekiyor. Balochistan, ayrılıkçı grupların ve militanların sık sık saldırılar düzenlediği bir bölge olup, güvenlik güçleri düzenli aralıklarla operasyonlar yürütüyor. Son operasyonlar, hükümetin bölgedeki terör tehdidine karşı kararlılığını ortaya koyarken, 'Radul Fitna' kampanyası özelinde belirli bir gruba odaklanıldığına işaret ediyor.
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Security forces kill 12 terrorists in Balochistan's Mastung, Washuk IBOs: ISPR
Security forces conducted two intelligence-based operations (IBOs) in Balochistan’s Washuk and Mastung districts, killing 12 terrorists in total, the military’s media wing said on Thursday. In a statement, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said the “high-tempo” operations were carried out as part of the ‘Radul Fitna’ counterterrorism campaign against Fitna-al-Hindustan in Balochistan. Balochistan-based terrorist groups have been designated as Fitna-al-Hindustan to highlight India’s alleged role in terrorism and destabilisation across Pakistan. The ISPR said that on August 5, “[The] movement of six terrorists was picked up by the security forces in Washuk District of Balochistan. Own troops effectively engaged these terrorists. As a result of precise and skilful engagement, all six terrorists belonging to Indian proxy, Fitna-al-Hindustan were sent to hell.” The military’s media wing further said that during an operation in the Mastung district earlier today, six terrorists were “sent to hell after the intense fire exchange between armed forces and the terrorists”, while a terrorist hideout was also destroyed. “Under vision ‘Azm-i-Istehkam’ (as approved by [the] Federal Apex Committee on National Action Plan), security forces and law enforcement agencies of Pakistan will continue at full pace to wipe out [the] menace of foreign-sponsored and supported terrorism from the country,” the statement concludes. Last Wednesday, eight terrorists belonging to Fitna-al-Hindustan were killed after an “intense engagement” in Balochistan’s Nushki district during multiple intelligence-based operations, the ISPR said. “Weapons, ammunition and improvised explosive devices used by terrorists were also recovered and destroyed during the operations,” it added. In July, security forces and law enforcement personnel jointly launched Operation Shaban in Balochistan in retaliation for a deadly attack on a police post at the Mangi Dam pumping station in Ziarat on July 6. During that assault, armed attackers kidnapped and killed 27 police officers. Later, security forces also launched Operation Al-Azm in the province after a shooting on a Karachi-bound coach coming from Quetta claimed three lives and injured five others last week. A monthly security assessment released in early June by the Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS) said that after two consecutive months of improvement, Pakistan’s security situation deteriorated sharply in May, driven primarily by escalating terrorist violence in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan. The report said Balochistan emerged as the most affected province during the month. The province recorded 71 terrorist attacks, compared with 34 in April, representing a 109pc increase. The deteriorating security situation was further reflected in a surge in kidnappings, it said. Of the 54 abductions reported nationwide during May, 52 occurred in Balochistan alone, highlighting the growing operational reach and confidence of terrorist groups in the province, it said.
- Güvenlik07 Ağu 05:01
10 terrorists killed in 2 separate operations in KP: ISPR
The military’s media affairs wing said on Friday that 10 terrorists were killed in two separate engagements in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa a day earlier. Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said the terrorists belonged to Indian-sponsored Fitna al Khwarij — a term the state uses for terrorists belonging to the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan. It said that in the first encounter, a group of terrorists attempted to attack security forces’ checkposts in Azam Warsak area in South Waziristan. “The attempt was effectively thwarted by own troops. During ensuing fire exchange, eight khwarij were sent to hell through effective and precise engagements by own troops,” it said. “In another encounter that took place in Dir district, own troops successfully neutralised two more khwarij,” it added. ISPR said that weapons and ammunition were also seized from killed terrorists, who remained “actively involved in numerous terrorist activities in the area”. It said sanitisation operations were being conducted to eliminate any other terrorists found in the area, adding that the counterterrorism campaign would continue at full pace to wipe out “the menace of foreign sponsored and supported terrorism from the country”. President Asif Ali Zardari paid tribute to the country’s security forces for eliminating the terrorists and commended their professionalism in thwarting the attack in Azam Warsak. “The nation stands with its brave security forces and law enforcement agencies and views their sacrifices against terrorism with utmost appreciation,” he said. “The nefarious designs of terrorist elements active under Indian sponsorship will be thwarted at any cost,” he added. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif also praised security forces for the successful operations. “The nefarious designs of elements spreading terrorism under Indian patronage will be thwarted at any cost. The government and the entire nation stand with the security forces in the war against terrorism,” he asserted. According to the Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies, an Islamabad-based think tank, violence linked to terrorist attacks and counter-terrorism operations intensified sharply in July, making it the deadliest month of 2026, with 112 security personnel among 205 people killed.
- Güvenlik09 Ağu 08:23
15 terrorists killed in IBOs across Balochistan: state media
Fifteen terrorists were killed in multiple intelligence-based operations (IBOs) in a number of areas of Balochistan, state media reported on Sunday. According to the state media sources, IBOs were carried out in Mastung, Bolan, Washuk, Awaran, Sibi, Khuzdar, Harnai, and Nushki. A large quantity of weapons and ammunition was also recovered, according to Pakistan TV. More to follow
- Güvenlik09 Ağu 08:25
Security forces kill 15 terrorists in Balochistan IBOs: state media
Fifteen terrorists were killed in multiple intelligence-based operations (IBOs) in several areas of Balochistan, state media reported on Sunday. According to the state media sources, IBOs were carried out in Mastung, Bolan, Washuk, Awaran, Sibi, Khuzdar, Harnai, and Nushki. A large quantity of weapons and ammunition was also recovered, according to Pakistan TV. “The operations severely damaged the khwarij network and restricted their movement,” Pakistan TV said. More to follow
- Güvenlik09 Ağu 12:32
15 terrorists killed in Pakistan’s latest Balochistan security sweep
Pakistani security forces have killed 15 terrorists in a series of coordinated intelligence-based operations across Balochistan province, state media reported on Sunday.
- Güvenlik10 Ağu 05:00
British national shot dead in Kashmir by Pakistani security forces
Mohammad Akhtar, 50, from Peterborough killed during clashes between authorities and protesters A British national was shot dead in Pakistan-administered Kashmir during clashes between security forces and protesters, the Guardian can reveal. Another Briton has been held in a regional prison for more than two months despite his family’s efforts to secure his release through the Foreign Office. Continue reading...
- Güvenlik11 Ağu 12:43
Man shot dead on Rawalpindi's Mall Road after 'opening fire' on security personnel
A man, whom police claimed was affiliated with a “particular political party”, was shot dead by law enforcement officials on Rawalpindi’s Mall Road on Tuesday after he allegedly opened fire on security forces, injuring an official. “The attacker, Muhammad Hussain, was immediately killed in retaliatory fire,” said a statement by Rawalpindi police. The police added that evidence and “links have emerged from his mobile phone and other belongings”, adding that further investigation is ongoing. “Law enforcement agencies remain fully prepared and committed to eliminating all forms of terrorism and incitement to unrest,” police said. PTV News, quoting security sources, said the alleged assailant was a resident of Khyber district and an “active PTI member”. A PTI flag, bullets and weapons were also allegedly recovered from him, the report added. In a statement aired on news channels following the incident, Information Minister Attaullah Tarar slammed PTI’s “politics of violence” after state media reported the incident. Visuals of a red and green cloth, a gun, and bullets allegedly recovered from the alleged attacker were also televised by PTV News and during Tarar’s video statement. The information minister said there was “no reason for opening fire on security personnel”, later confirming the incident location as Rawalpindi’s Mall Road. Tarar also slammed the “politics of violence adopted by the PTI” and criticised its members for “coming equipped with weapons”. The minister referred to the call for a long march to Islamabad, which has been announced by the PTI for September 27. He claimed that it was “on record that they always come armed at all their protests, open fire on security personnel and martyr them”. “They do not believe in a peaceful protest, and today, the entire nation has witnessed their nefarious aims and objectives,” Tarar asserted, noting that the security personnel were targeted “in public in broad daylight”. “This is their ideology; they believe in violence and such incidents. The PTI has always done politics of violence, and not a single one of their protests has been peaceful,” Tarar alleged. Noting that a PTI flag and “other documents” were recovered from the alleged attacker in today’s incident, he claimed that the PTI’s aim was only to “spread anarchy in the country and ruin the law and order”. The minister stressed that the PTI’s announcement of a long march came right after Pakistan was praised internationally after signing a joint defence pact with Saudi Arabia and Turkiye. “Whenever Pakistan makes progress and garners respect, this is not digested by the PTI,” Tarar remarked, recalling a previous instance of the party announcing protests coinciding with the arrival of foreign leaders. The minister reiterated his claim that the objective of “every PTI protest was to come equipped with weapons, open fire, pile up bodies, destroy law and order, and damage the country”. Additional input from Mohammad Asghar
- Güvenlik12 Ağu 09:59
Shooting on security personnel in Pindi: Minister says PTI leadership cannot 'absolve themselves of responsibility'
Minister of State for Interior Tallal Chaudhry on Wednesday said that the PTI could not “absolve themselves of responsibility” after a man was shot dead by law enforcement officials on Rawalpindi’s Mall Road for allegedly open firing on security forces. PTV News, quoting security sources, said the alleged assailant was a resident of Khyber district and an “active PTI member”. Information Minister Attaullah Tarar had slammed PTI’s “politics of violence” after state media reported the incident. However, the PTI had distanced itself from the incident, saying it had nothing to do with terrorism and that efforts were being made to link the party to it. Addressing a press conference in Islamabad on Wednesday, Chaudhry said, “For years, the PTI leadership has been told not to do the politics of hatred and anarchy.” He said that the party was told not to influence the youth with “ideas which could not be removed”. “When a young person fills his mind with such hatred and anarchy, he expresses it somewhere in his own way. Yesterday’s incident is an example [of this],” he said. “The PTI leadership cannot absolve themselves of responsibility by saying that they had no association with the worker,” he said. “Who trained the political workers? Who provided them with a vision? Who stuffed their minds with all the information?” Adding that the PTI had claimed the man was in an unstable mental condition, Chaudhry asked why, in that case, he had not attacked his family or party members or inflicted self-harm, but rather only attacked security forces. More to follow
- Ekonomik13 Ağu 02:23
National security odyssey
WHEN Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi recently declared that national security requires deep reforms, and ISPR publicly endorsed the call, both were arguing for the same things: coherence, coordination, service delivery pushed closer to the doorstep, a state that functions as a state should. Nothing wrong with that ambition. The problem is what it left out, and how familiar that omission is. Pakistan has set out for this destination before. Every serious reset since 1947 has restated some version of that list: Peace. Prosperity. Rule of law. A federation the provinces actually believe in. None of it was ever the wrong destination. What keeps happening is Odysseus’s wandering. His ship knows exactly where Ithaca lies and still takes the long way, blown off course by whichever storm is loudest that year. Each course correction adds distance instead of closing it. This is not a nation still discovering what it wants. It is a nation that has known the address for decades but keeps failing to arrive. Climate change is the clearest evidence of that failure, the one threat that has already reshaped the economy and governance more than any militant group, hostile neighbour, or political crisis since 2010. Yet, it barely features in the national security conversation beyond a meek reference in the 2021 National Security Policy. Pakistan’s own climate finance planning puts annual investment need at roughly $56.6 billion, one and a half times what defence and debt servicing cost combined, nearly 20 times the federal development budget. Climate investment is deferred, year after year, for the next government or generation to absorb. The reason is structural, not a matter of neglect. Hydrological volatility asks a different set of questions than the ones conventional threats ask. A flood breaches an embankment, and the people who decide whether that embankment holds are provincial irrigation engineers. An evacuation is run by a district administration working off exposure lists, not from provincial headquarters. Urban flooding is a municipal failure before it becomes a national one, a drainage line that was never cleared. The Constitution already assigns disaster management, water, agriculture and local infrastructure to the provinces. National security planning grew up answering more conventional and transboundary threats. A constitutional division of labour has put the actual climate mandate one or more levels below where the security doctrine is written. Each course correction adds distance instead of closing it. Naqvi’s critics have already converged on the obvious corrective, but have failed to offer a political economy analysis: why has local government never taken root? Pakistan has built it three times, Ayub’s Basic Democracies, Zia’s local bodies, Musharraf’s LGO 2000 — all three imposed by military leaders, all three the same design: an election without power, a base for the man at the top, no foundations underneath. Civilian governments never fixed this. The reign of top-down development has continued. Each time reform came up, provincial and federal legislators were lured by the discretionary schemes that let them decide what gets built and funded in their constituencies. A local politician’s power comes from controlling those schemes, and real local government would take that power away. This has replaced planning with ad hocism, turning much of the PSDP into an investment in random, uncoordinated allocations rather than resilience. Local government cannot consolidate, and climate vulnerability cannot be addressed, until this political economy architecture is dismantled. As long as politicians control allocations to their own constituencies, neither local government nor climate resilience gets to compound the benefits. Only the losses do. Pakistan’s fiscal policy has run the same choice for decades: squeezed development budget on terms set by lenders, or populist spending. Climate resilience loses either way, cut first under austerity because it produces no immediate political return, and starved again under populist spending because discretionary schemes absorb whatever fiscal space survives. Flood protection spending is patchy, addressed only after a flood has already caused the damage. Elite capture runs well past the PSDP and local government. The automobile sector sits behind tariff walls, shielded from competition. Circular debt in the hydrocarbon energy sector is never resolved, only refinanced at a higher cost each time. Independent fossil-fuel power producers collect capacity charges regardless of what the country actually uses, a guaranteed return baked into the same contracts feeding the circular debt spiral. Undervalued official real estate rates let landowners dodge capital gains and wealth tax, channelling investment into speculative housing societies rather than production. And government borrowing crowds out private credit: banks holding government debt earn a safe return and have little appetite left to lend to the SMEs that would otherwise finance flood-resistant infrastructure or NAP and NDC implementation, the same SMEs that take the direct hit when a flood wipes out inventory or halts production. None of this is hidden: protected manufacturers, power producers, landowners, and captive banks are confident that the system built to check them answers, in practice, to them. None of this invalidates the proposed reforms. But the reforms do not touch what has broken Pakistan’s economy and governance repeatedly, nor do they restore the local government capacity that decades of centralising incentive have deliberately eroded. Floods have destabilised the country more than insurgencies have. A weak district administration has cost more in a monsoon season than most internal security lapses cost in a year. A reform agenda that does not start there is not incomplete. It is aimed at the wrong problem, and it is one more course correction that adds distance instead of closing it. The demand for structural national security reform is correct. The deepest reform available is recognising that Pakistan’s reform agenda does not begin with creating economically unviable administrative units, but with building hubs of performing local government first, units earned through capacity rather than drawn on a map. It will be a decades-long electoral process, building the capacity to manage administrative units before creating more of them. The state has seen its Ithaca before and sailed past it, more than once. Climate resilience and functioning local government both are fundamentally national security questions. This odyssey ends only when the doctrine comes home to the districts it has spent decades avoiding. The writer is a climate expert. Published in Dawn, August 13th, 2026
- Güvenlik13 Ağu 11:34
High-profile terrorist commander killed in Bannu IBO: DPO
PESHAWAR: A highly wanted terrorist commander was killed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa during an intelligence-based operation (IBO) conducted by the Bannu police and the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD), the district police confirmed on Thursday. Bannu’s District Police Officer (DPO) Captain (retd) Muhammad Furqan Bilal confirmed the terrorist’s killing in a conversation with Dawn. The DPO confirmed that the terrorist was identified as a high-profile commander, Naseer Muhammad alias Geedarh, who carried a Rs6 million bounty on his head. According to a statement issued by the police, an operation is underway against terrorists in the jurisdiction of Domel Police Station under the supervision of DPO Bilal, involving both the Bannu district police and CTD teams. The statement elaborated that the operation is being conducted in Akbar Ali Khan Kili, Sada Khel, Sadarwan and the adjoining areas, where police and CTD teams are carrying out targeted actions based on intelligence reports regarding the presence and movement of terrorists. Search and surveillance operations are also underway in the area, while security has been further tightened in various parts of the Bannu township and Domel. The police said further details of the operation and its progress would be shared after the ongoing operation was completed. There has been a resurgence in terrorism in Pakistan since the Afghan Taliban returned to power in Kabul in 2021. Islamabad has repeatedly urged the Taliban administration to dismantle terrorist sanctuaries on Afghan soil, particularly those linked to the banned TTP. Officials say those appeals have gone unheeded. On Monday, the district police, CTD and security forces conducted a joint IBO in the jurisdiction of the Miryan police station in Bannu, leading to the killing of an unidentified terrorist in an exchange of fire and the arrest of 10 suspected individuals. Last week, a captain was martyred while seven terrorists were killed during an IBO in KP’s Hangu district. Separately, security forces killed a key terrorist commander identified as Jamidullah during an operation in Jani Khel area of Bannu, a security official said. According to the Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies, an Islamabad-based think tank, violence linked to terrorist attacks and counter-terrorism operations intensified sharply in July, making it the deadliest month of 2026, with 112 security personnel among 205 people killed.
- Güvenlik16 Ağu 03:26
‘No no-go areas’ across Balochistan, says Langove
QUETTA: Balochistan Home Minister Mir Ziaullah Langove has said there were no “no-go areas” in the province, though terrorists remained active along the Quetta-Karachi national highway and security forces were conducting operations against them. Speaking at a press conference here on Saturday, Mr Langove accused armed groups of carrying out terrorism and extortion in the name of an “independence struggle” and urged people to support the state and national institutions in the fight against terrorism. Mr Langove thanked the people of Balochistan for celebrating Independence Day with enthusiasm and praised the security forces for maintaining security across the province. He highlighted healthcare facilities provided in Kalat and Khaliqabad, saying residents, particularly women, had previously faced difficulties transporting patients to hospitals because ambulances were unavailable. The government had provided 30 to 35 ambulances in the two areas, he said, but alleged that terrorists had taken them away. Minister says terrorists use violence as a cover for extortion, intimidation at the directive of external forces According to Mr Langove, women had appealed to the terrorists in the name of the Quran not to take the ambulances, but their pleas were ignored. He said the groups were not fighting for independence or people’s rights but were depriving local communities of basic facilities and trying to impose their narrative on young people and women. The minister said that terrorist groups were backed by India and Afghanistan and that their leaders were controlled by external forces. He also accused terrorists of collecting extortion money from local landowners. He urged the Baloch people to consider the future of their children and stay away from violence while cooperating with the government and state institutions. Responding to a question, Mr Langove acknowledged the presence of terrorists along the Quetta-Karachi RCD National Highway. He said government action against terrorists was sometimes criticised by political and public circles and urged them to support the state in dealing with the security situation. The minister also disclosed that his convoy came under attack while he was returning from Kalat after attending Independence Day events. He said he was travelling in an SSP vehicle when terrorists attempted to target his vehicle. One of the vehicles in the convoy came under fire during an exchange of gunfire. Police, the Anti-Terrorism Force and Frontier Corps personnel accompanying him confronted the attackers. Six security personnel were injured, he said. They were evacuated and taken to Shaheed Nawab Ghous Bakhsh Raisani Hospital before being shifted to the Trauma Centre in Quetta after receiving initial treatment. Published in Dawn, August 16th, 2026
- Güvenlik16 Ağu 03:33
‘No no-go areas’ across Balochistan, says Home Minister Langove
QUETTA: Balochistan Home Minister Mir Ziaullah Langove has said there were no “no-go areas” in the province, though terrorists remained active along the Quetta-Karachi national highway and security forces were conducting operations against them. Speaking at a press conference here on Saturday, Mr Langove accused armed groups of carrying out terrorism and extortion in the name of an “independence struggle” and urged people to support the state and national institutions in the fight against terrorism. Mr Langove thanked the people of Balochistan for celebrating Independence Day with enthusiasm and praised the security forces for maintaining security across the province. He highlighted healthcare facilities provided in Kalat and Khaliqabad, saying residents, particularly women, had previously faced difficulties transporting patients to hospitals because ambulances were unavailable. The government had provided 30 to 35 ambulances in the two areas, he said, but alleged that terrorists had taken them away. Minister says terrorists use violence as a cover for extortion, intimidation at the directive of external forces According to Mr Langove, women had appealed to the terrorists in the name of the Quran not to take the ambulances, but their pleas were ignored. He said the groups were not fighting for independence or people’s rights but were depriving local communities of basic facilities and trying to impose their narrative on young people and women. The minister said that terrorist groups were backed by India and Afghanistan and that their leaders were controlled by external forces. He also accused terrorists of collecting extortion money from local landowners. He urged the Baloch people to consider the future of their children and stay away from violence while cooperating with the government and state institutions. Responding to a question, Mr Langove acknowledged the presence of terrorists along the Quetta-Karachi RCD National Highway. He said government action against terrorists was sometimes criticised by political and public circles and urged them to support the state in dealing with the security situation. The minister also disclosed that his convoy came under attack while he was returning from Kalat after attending Independence Day events. He said he was travelling in an SSP vehicle when terrorists attempted to target his vehicle. One of the vehicles in the convoy came under fire during an exchange of gunfire. Police, the Anti-Terrorism Force and Frontier Corps personnel accompanying him confronted the attackers. Six security personnel were injured, he said. They were evacuated and taken to Shaheed Nawab Ghous Bakhsh Raisani Hospital before being shifted to the Trauma Centre in Quetta after receiving initial treatment. Published in Dawn, August 16th, 2026
- Güvenlik15 Ağu 23:20
Six women killed in firing incidents across Balochistan
QUETTA: Six women, including a mother and her daughter, were killed and three people injured in separate incidents in different areas of Balochistan on Saturday, while the body of an unidentified woman was found in the Kalat area. Officials said the first firing incident took place in the Segi area of Qila Abdullah district, where unidentified armed men opened fire on a car, killing two women and injuring a man, his wife and their daughter. Sources said the victims belonged to Karachi and were visiting relatives in the area. The family was returning to Karachi when armed men signalled the driver to stop. After the driver ignored the signal, the attackers opened fire on the vehicle. “As a result of the firing, two young women were killed, while a man, his wife and another daughter were injured,” officials said, adding that the bodies and injured were shifted to District Hospital Abdul Rehmanzai. Police were investigating the incident, but no arrests had been reported so far. Woman, daughter shot dead In another firing incident, a woman and her teenage daughter were shot dead by unidentified armed men in Noshki on Saturday. Police said armed men barged into a house in Killi Mengal area of Noshki late on Friday night and opened indiscriminate fire, killing 50-year-old Bibi Hanifa, wife of Ali Ahmed, and her 17-year-old daughter, Hafsa. Police rushed to the scene after receiving information about the incident and shifted the bodies to Mir Gul Khan Naseer Teaching Hospital, Noshki, for medico-legal formalities and post-mortem examination. After completion of the necessary legal procedures, the bodies were handed over to the victims’ family members later that night. The motive behind the killings was not known. Police registered a case and launched an investigation. “We are investigating the incident from different angles to determine the motive behind the double murder and identify and arrest those responsible,” a senior police officer said. Two women killed There were also reports of the killing of two more women by unidentified armed men in the Nasirabad area. However, no further details were available. Meanwhile, the body of an unidentified woman was found in the Rej area of Kalat. Police said local residents informed them about the presence of a woman’s body near the Quetta-Karachi National Highway. Police rushed to the site, took the body into custody and shifted it to District Hospital Kalat for identification. However, no one had identified the deceased woman so far. Published in Dawn, August 16th, 2026
- Güvenlik16 Ağu 03:47
Balochistan’s wounds
ALTHOUGH Balochistan has been experiencing varying degrees of tumult for over two decades now, currently, the troubled province is witnessing near-constant terrorist activity and lawlessness. The rulers in both Islamabad and Quetta often downplay the situation, but there are moments when they themselves admit that all is not well in Balochistan. For instance, on Friday, when the nation was celebrating Independence Day, the province’s Chief Minister Sarfraz Bugti extended an olive branch to those engaged in violence. Mr Bugti advised the lawless elements to “return to the national mainstream” and talk to the government. However, he added, and rightly so, that the state would not talk to those who were involved in the killing of innocent people. In recent times, terrorist activity in Balochistan has become noticeably brazen. While ordinary citizens and security personnel are often targeted, even the high-level guardians of the state are not safe. On Friday, Balochistan Home Minister Ziaullah Langove’s convoy came under attack as he was returning to Quetta from Kalat. The minister survived the ambush, but a number of personnel who were accompanying him were wounded in the attack. Elsewhere, security forces have not yet given clearance for repair work on a gas pipeline that was blown up by the terrorists. The latter’s act of sabotage has deprived several towns of gas. While the chief minister has once again invited ‘angry’ elements for talks, the state has yet to create conducive conditions for dialogue to get off the ground. At this point, some introspection is required: the state has alienated even those political elements in Baloch society that have been peacefully pursuing their rights. This attitude must change. In the short term, a genuine process of reconciliation can begin by inviting both veteran Baloch politicians and younger activists to the table, and listening to their grievances. Questionable cases against peaceful activists should also be reviewed. If the state is able to build confidence through such measures, the next step can be taken to address long-term goals, such as ensuring that the people of Balochistan are given the first right to their province’s vast mineral wealth. The province’s miserable socioeconomic numbers also need the state’s immediate attention; this may take decades to fix, but the first step must be taken now. Claims that hostile foreign forces are stirring up trouble in Balochistan carry much weight. These forces must be exposed and kinetic action should continue against those involved in terrorism in Balochistan. But a long-term solution lies in taking the political path and involving the genuine representatives of the residents. The people will be waiting to see what practical steps the state takes to take forward the process of reconciliation in the province. Published in Dawn, August 16th, 2026
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