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The Insurgency in Balochistan is an insurgency [41] [16] or revolt [42] by Baloch separatist insurgents and various Islamist militant groups against the governments of Pakistan and Iran in the Balochistan region, which covers the Pakistani province of Balochistan, Iranian province of Sistan and Baluchestan, and Balochistan of southern Afghanistan.
Following the alleged discovery of Iraqi arms in Islamabad in February 1973, Bhutto dissolved the Balochistan Provincial Assembly and infuriated Balochistan's political oligarchs. In time, the nationalist insurgency , which had been steadily gathering steam, now exploded into action, with widespread civil disobedience and armed uprisings.
The 2022 Panjgur and Naushki raids were a series of attacks on the Pakistani Frontier Corps in Balochistan claimed by the Balochistan Nationalist Army (BNA), a newly formed Balochi separatist group with ties to the Balochistan Liberation Army.
Separatist militants launched several coordinated attacks in Pakistan's province of Balochistan, killing at least 39 people, officials said on Monday, in the most widespread assault by ethnic ...
Balochistan has long been the scene of a long-running insurgency, with an array of separatist groups staging attacks mainly on security forces. The separatists demand independence from the central ...
The Third Balochistan Conflict refers to an insurgency by Baloch separatists against the Pakistani government lasting from 1963 till 1969 with the aim to force Pakistan to share revenues from gas reserves in Balochistan, freeing up of Baloch prisoners and dissolution of One Unit Scheme.
The separatist movement in Balochistan is engaged in a low-intensity insurgency against the Government of Pakistan. [8] [6]In 2009, the Pew Research Center conducted a Global Attitudes survey across Pakistan, in which it questioned respondents whether they viewed their primary identity as Pakistani or that of their ethnicity.
Sarfraz alleged that India was responsible for funding militant groups in the province, and also urged other militant to surrender before the state. [4] [25] Commanders like Sarfraz and Gulzar have been at the forefront of a low-level insurgency in Balochistan for more than two decades. [26]