Quickly after a devastating assault on Pakistani troopers close to the Iran border, referred to as the Goldsmith line, rebel group Balochistan Liberation Entrance (BLF) launched its annual report for 2022.
The report says that the rebels carried out 162 assaults on the forces during which 213 Pakistani personnel had been killed, and greater than 100 had been injured. It provides that solely ten BLF rebels had been killed in these operations “to defend their motherland”.
Balochistan Liberation Entrance (BLF) claims duty for the killing of Pakistani forces throughout Iran’s border
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Importantly, the annual report stated that the BLF has additionally stored the infamous Demise Squads of their crosshairs. It says that “27 brokers and informers had been killed and three had been injured. They operate within the identify of state demise squads”.
The Pakistan authorities and its safety businesses have established Demise Squads – casual teams of criminals and gangs who act in unlawful actions like killings, pressured abductions, accumulating ransom, organising unlawful check-points and smuggling of weapons and medicines beneath the safety of the State.
In an ominous warning to Pakistan, the BLF says that it “will intensify its assaults on enemy’s initiatives this 12 months to pressure them to go away our motherland. These Baloch who assist and inform the Pakistani military and different actions in opposition to the liberty motion ought to desist from their anti-national actions”.
The insurgent outfit has requested the general public to avoid navy installations, checkpoints and convoys as its fighters can goal the enemy any time.
BLF spokesperson Main Gwahram Baloch who launched the report stated: “Baloch Sarmachaars repulsed the enemy on each entrance of the warfare, on guerilla and concrete fronts. Their finest warfare techniques have made the enemy determined”.
The BLF stated that in 2022, in addition to the assaults on the safety forces it additionally broken 11 cell towers and two convoys of vans carrying items and valuable stones from Gwadar port.
The BLF additionally attacked navy development firm FWO, during which 5 employees had been injured, 16 automobiles and equipment had been set on hearth. It additionally attacked 15 vans supplying items to the FWO and the military.
The rebels additionally declare to have attacked completely different forces – the Navy camp, the Coast Guard, the Narcotics pressure and the Sindh Rangers.
The Baloch rebels have additionally made it clear that they’re against any sort of funding, together with the China Pakistan Financial Hall (CPEC) that takes away their mineral wealth and exploits native assets.
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