Overview

• Hidayat Buledi, the Additional Deputy Commissioner Revenue, was killed defending women and children when militants set fire to his home during the raid.
• Security forces including the Frontier Corps, Levies and police engaged the attackers, reportedly killing several insurgents before they withdrew.
• The BLA’s statement asserted control over government offices and police stations and announced checkpoints on the Quetta-Karachi and Surab-Gidar highways.
• The surge in attacks underscores long-standing ethnic and economic grievances in the resource-rich but underdeveloped province of Balochistan.
• Islamabad brands the BLA a terrorist group and has accused foreign actors of backing the separatists as Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif vows intensified counterterrorism operations.