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3 security personnel, 11 insurgents killed in separate incidents in Pakistan's Balochistan

October 23, 2025 2:47 pm

Two policemen were gunned down by unidentified assailants while on patrol duty in Noshki. In another incident, a security official was killed when a landmine exploded in the Kech area.

Pakistan offers US Arabian Sea port, pitches it as terminal to ship minerals: Report

October 06, 2025 6:10 am

The port in the small, coastal fishing town of Pasni — about 70 miles from Gwadar and 100 miles from the Pakistan-Iran border — is being pitched as a terminal to ship Pakistan’s critical minerals.

A BLA poster with the flag of Balochistan. (Wikimedia Commons)

US, France, UK block Pak-China bid to put Baloch Liberation Army in UN sanctions list: All you need to know

September 19, 2025 10:38 pm

The BLA are a Baloch ethnonationalist group who emerged in the early 2000s with the stated aim of securing independence for Balochistan

Gunmen kill 9 passengers in Pakistan's Balochistan

July 11, 2025 8:56 am

The armed insurgents checked ID cards of passengers and offloaded nine of them from the bus going from Quetta to Lahore, and shot them dead.

Israel-Iran conflict leads to fuel crisis in Pakistan's Balochistan

June 16, 2025 12:49 pm

The developments came as the federal government increased the prices of both petrol and diesel, with their rates climbing by Rs 4.80 and Rs 7.95 per litre, respectively.

4 killed, 20 injured in blast in Pakistan's Balochistan province

May 19, 2025 10:48 am

Several shops reportedly collapsed, and fires erupted in multiple establishments following the explosion.

WATCH: Baloch Liberation Army's attack on Pakistani paramilitary convoy that killed at least 5

March 17, 2025 10:42 am

While local sources told news agency Reuters that at least 11 people were killed and 22 others injured, the BLA said that 90 Pakistani soldiers had died.

Driver of Jaffar Express recalls ‘terrifying' ordeal after insurgents attack train in Pakistan

March 14, 2025 11:45 am

On Tuesday, Jaffar Express travelling from Quetta to Peshawar and carrying 440 passengers was hijacked in which 21 civilians and four soldiers were killed.

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Pakistan has ignored Baloch concerns for too long

March 13, 2025 10:41 am

‘Trainjacking’ of the Jaffar Express by elements of the Baloch Liberation Army is yet more proof that there is an unaddressed crisis of ‘honour’ and equity in Baloch imagination, and the Pakistani guns only worsen it.

Pakistan Jaffar Express operation over, 33 separatists, 21 hostages killed: Army spokesperson

March 13, 2025 6:12 am

The hijacking occurred on Tuesday afternoon as the train travelling from Quetta to Peshawar, carrying about 450 passengers, passed through a tunnel in Balochistan's rugged mountains.