A bus carrying pilgrims to a shrine in Balochistan crashed in Hub district, resulting in 17 deaths and 38 injuries. The driver lost control of the vehicle while approaching a turn, leading to the accident. Similar road accidents with high fatalities are common in Pakistan due to lax safety measures, poor driver training, and decrepit transport infrastructure.
A motorcycle bomb in Khuzdar, Pakistan killed two people and wounded five, including a woman and two police officers. The blast is the latest in Baluchistan province, where militants have targeted a naval facility and a government building in recent weeks. Baluchistan has seen a low-level insurgency by groups seeking independence from Islamabad, with ongoing violence despite government claims of quelling the unrest.
A gas explosion in a coal mine in Harnai, Balochistan, Pakistan, killed 12 miners, with eight others rescued. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif expressed sorrow over the incident, highlighting the hazardous working conditions and poor safety standards in Pakistan's mines. This is not the first deadly incident in Balochistan due to methane gas explosions, with past incidents causing multiple fatalities. Safety measures are inadequately implemented in Balochistan's coal mines, contributing to the high risk faced by miners. Unions have emphasized the dangerous working conditions as a major factor in accidents in the region.
Gunmen ambushed a police vehicle in Lakki Marwat district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan, killing two people and injuring two others. The attackers, alleged to be militants, fled the scene. In a separate incident in Bajaur tribal district, one police officer was killed in a roadside blast. Pakistan's army reported killing eight militants in Dera Ismail Khan district. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif condemned the attack in Lakki Marwat and praised the army's operation in Dera Ismail Khan.
Separatist insurgents fired rockets in southwestern Pakistan, killing a police officer and injuring several people. The attacks were believed to be in retaliation for Pakistani strikes on insurgent hideouts in Iran. The Baluchistan Liberation Army (BLA) claimed responsibility for the attacks and threatened further strikes. Pakistan and Iran share a border where violence by Baluch nationalists has persisted for years. Balochistan province, where the attacks took place, has faced a low-level insurgency for over two decades. The province is rich in mineral resources but remains the country's poorest.
In Gwadar, Pakistan, security forces thwarted an attack by eight armed fighters on the Gwadar Port Authority complex, a key part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. The attackers, claimed by the Balochistan Liberation Army, targeted Pakistans intelligence agencies inside the complex. Gwadar, home to Chinese engineers working on port construction, has been previously attacked, with the latest incident resulting in the death of the attackers after a two-hour gun battle. Balochistan, the countrys largest but poorest province, has a history of separatist movements and marginalisation.
Gunmen ambushed a police convoy in Iran's restive southeast, killing six policemen and wounding two. The attack was claimed by the Jaish al-Adl militant group, allegedly fighting for greater rights for the ethnic Baluch minority. This incident marks the second attack on security forces in as many weeks, indicating a worsening security situation in the region. Sistan and Baluchistan, bordering Afghanistan and Pakistan, has seen deadly clashes between militants, armed drug smugglers, and Iranian security forces.
Unidentified gunmen attacked the Gwadar port authority complex in Balochistan Province, resulting in two attackers being killed and a blast preceding the firing. Pakistani security forces killed at least eight insurgents in a retaliatory attack by a separatist group at the Chinese-funded Gwadar port, with three security forces also killed. All Chinese nationals at the port were reported safe. The attack involved a suicide bomber and gunmen throwing hand grenades at security forces, and was claimed by the outlawed Baluchistan Liberation Army seeking independence from the central government in Islamabad.
Consistent efforts have been made in past years to create a wedge between China and Pakistan, but the unique bilateral relationship has emerged unscathed amid the backdrop of the terrorist attack in Besham on March 26 that caused the deaths of five Chinese engineers of the Dasu Hydropower Project and their Pakistani driver. Local people instantly flocked to the site of the tragedy to lend a helping hand. Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif visited the Chinese embassy in Islamabad to express condolences. They also conveyed their firm resolve to punish the perpetrators. It is not a coincidence that the Besham attack was carried out ahead of discussions of the two countries' leaders for making progress on projects in Pakistan.
At least 11 Iranian security force members were killed in an attack by Jaish al-Adl on an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps headquarters in Sistan-Baluchestan, with 16 Jaish al-Adl members also killed in the clashes. The attack, one of the deadliest by Jaish al-Adl, took place in Chabahar and Rask, near the Afghan and Pakistani borders. The group seeks better rights for the Baluchi minority in Iran. The region, plagued by unrest and drug trafficking, has seen frequent clashes between security forces, Sunni militants, and drug traffickers.
Pakistan has accused Indian intelligence agencies of orchestrating multiple assassinations in the country, including the killings of individuals viewed as terrorists. Pakistani officials claim at least eight killings are linked to India, with allegations supported by British newspaper The Guardian. New Delhi denies these charges, despite mounting international allegations. The incidents involve killings-for-hire cases with evidence pointing to Indian involvement in high-profile murders like those of Muhammad Riaz and Shahid Latif in different regions of Pakistan.
The Insurgency in Balochistan is an insurgency or revolt 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. Rich in natural resources, this is the largest, least populated and least developed province in Pakistan and Iran, and armed groups demand greater control of the province's natural resources and political autonomy. Baloch separatists have attacked civilians from other ethnicities throughout the province. In the 2010s, attacks against the Shia community by sectarian groups—though not always directly related to the political struggle—have risen, contributing to tensions in Balochistan. In Pakistan, the ethnic separatist insurgency is low-scale but ongoing mainly in southern Balochistan, as well as sectarian and religiously motivated militancy concentrated mainly in northern and central Balochistan.In Pakistan's Balochistan province, insurgencies by Baloch nationalists have been fought in 1948, 1958–59, 1962–63 and 1973–1977, with an ongoing low-level insurgency beginning in 2003. This insurgency has begun to weaken. In an article titled "The End of Pakistan's Baloch Insurgency?", Baloch analyst Malik Siraj Akbar reported that Baloch militants had begun killing their own commanders. Furthermore, separatists in recent times have also accused their own groups of being involved in wide spread crime, robbery and rapes against Baloch women, with some claiming that what started as an idealistic political fight for their people's rights has turned into gangs extorting, kidnapping and even raping locals. However, Akbar called anger towards provincial Chief Minister Abdul Malik Baloch "growing and often uncontrollable". Baloch militants have taken some reconciliation offers from the government and offered to hand in their weapons. In April 2016, four militant commanders and 144 militants had surrendered under reconciliation. 600 rebels were killed and 1,025 surrendered after accepting reconciliation as of August 2016. In April 2017, another 500 Baloch rebels surrendered to the state, including members of BRA, UBA, and LeB.Baloch separatists argue they are economically marginalised and poor compared to the rest of Pakistan. The Balochistan Liberation Army, designated as a terrorist organisation by Pakistan, the United Kingdom and the United States, is the most widely known Baloch separatist group. Since 2000 it has conducted numerous deadly attacks on Pakistani military troops, police, journalists, civilians and education institutions. Other separatist groups include Lashkar-e-Balochistan and the Balochistan Liberation United Front (BLUF).Human rights activists have accused nationalist militants, Government of Pakistan and Iran of human rights abuses in its suppression of the insurgency.The News International reported in 2012 that a Gallup survey conducted for DFID revealed that the most of the Balochistan province does not support independence from Pakistan, with only 37% of ethnic Baloch and 12% of Pashtuns in Balochistan favoring independence. However, 67% of Balochistan's population favored greater provincial autonomy, including 79% of ethnic Baloch and 53% of Pashtuns in the province.
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