Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Insurgency in Balochistan" in English language version.
The civil war has left thousands dead – including non-Baloch settlers and has gone on for the past nine years, but it hardly made the news in Pakistan, let alone abroad.
"Since January 2008, military has conducted no operation in Balochistan," said Gen Abbas, dispelling a perception that the army was still in the field there.
'Not a single soldier of Pakistan Army is involved in any operation in Balochistan,' Gen Kayani said.
The largest province of the country by area, Balochistan is home to a low-level insurgency by ethnic Baloch separatists.
Kalati claimed that he had been fighting for independence of Balochistan since 1970 and spent 45 years on mountains. 'Now I have realised that this fight has been launched by tribal chiefs to protect their own interests,' he said, adding that internal fighting among leaders of banned organisations had helped him to come to that conclusion.
Since July 2010 over 300 battered corpses have been flung on roadsides and in remote areas across the province. Baloch activists and human-rights organisations believe these men, insurgents and activists, were victims of a "kill and dump" policy run by the Frontier Corps (FC), a paramilitary force that works with the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) spy agency. With burn marks, broken limbs, nails pulled out, and sometimes with holes drilled in their heads, the bodies are discarded, becoming food for dogs. The security forces deny any connection to the corpses. No one has been held responsible.
In Balochistan the wellhead price is $0.38 while it is approximately $2 in the other provinces
Police said motor cycle-borne unidentified men opened fire on Mullai while he was returning home after solemnising the marriage of one of his devotees. The banned Balochistan Liberation Army claimed responsibility for the attack.
The numerical strength of the BLA is not clear, with estimates claiming that in the early 2000s after the group formed, there were approximately 6,000 fighters in the BLA. More recent estimates have suggested the total number of fighters is closer to 600.
Afghan officials confirmed that General Raziq had housed Baluch separatist leaders in Kandahar for years.
Increasing attacks by the Islamic State in Balochistan are connected to Pakistan's failed strategy of encouraging and using Islamist militants to crush Baloch rebels and separatists.
Several Pakistani journalists and scholars in the United States interviewed over the past week said that they were approached regularly by Pakistani officials, some of whom openly identified themselves as ISI officials. The journalists and scholars said the officials caution them against speaking out on politically delicate subjects like the indigenous insurgency in Baluchistan or accusations of human rights abuses by Pakistani soldiers. The verbal pressure is often accompanied by veiled warnings about the welfare of family members in Pakistan, they said.
Since the beginning of this year, violent attacks by secular ethnic Baluch separatists in Pakistan's restive southwestern province of Balochistan have dramatically risen.
separatist organizations such as the Baloch Liberation Front and Baloch Liberation Army have claimed responsibility for some of the 27 journalists killed in targeted assassinations since 2007
Pakistan's fear that a communist Afghanistan would embolden the Baloch and Pashtun Marxist separatists in the western Pakistani province of Balochistan was confirmed when Daoud began supporting Marxist Baloch and Pashtun groups in eastern Afghanistan
The Swiss chargesheet, according to papers seen by this reporter, said Marri was 'a Pakistani national of Great Britain' associated with militant groups. It claimed that the UBA 'collaborated with the terrorist movement Balochistan Republican Army (BRA) under Brahmadagh Bugti'.
The Baloch separatist Aslam Baloch was living in Afghanistan's Kandahar province since 2005
separatist organizations such as the Baloch Liberation Front and Baloch Liberation Army have claimed responsibility for some of the 27 journalists killed in targeted assassinations since 2007
In Balochistan the wellhead price is $0.38 while it is approximately $2 in the other provinces
