The Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF) has claimed responsibility for two separate attacks in Nushki and Panjgur, targeting police and a company involved in dam construction.
According to BLF spokesperson Major Gwahram Baloch, on March 7, at around 8 PM, BLF fighters carried out a grenade attack on a police checkpoint near the Muslim Commercial Bank in Nushki. The attack reportedly injured a police officer and caused partial damage to the police vehicle.
In another operation on March 6, BLF militants set fire to machinery belonging to a construction company involved in building a dam in Panjgur’s Tasp area, allegedly for the facilitation of Pakistani forces.
The BLF spokesperson warned the police against acting on behalf of Pakistani forces and intelligence agencies, stating that any such involvement would make them responsible for their own losses.
Meanwhile, in Khuzdar, a large number of armed men stormed the Ornach police station, seizing weapons and other equipment before setting the facility on fire. According to sources, the attackers surrounded the area before taking control of the police station. Reports suggest they also addressed the local population during the assault. No casualties have been reported so far, and authorities have yet to release an official statement on the incident.
A similar attack took place on January 8 in Khuzdar’s Zehri tehsil, where Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) fighters seized control of the town for several hours. The assailants torched the Levies station and the NADRA office and reportedly walkedy away with millions of rupees from the town’s only bank. The assailants also addressed the locals in a massive gathering in front of the burning Levies statation, chastising the local Levies force for being a pawn in the Pakistani state’s ‘oppressive’ regime in Balochistan.
Videos of the attack went viral on social media, showing fighters taking away vehicles, motorcycles, and weapons belonging to the Levies force. In a later statement, the BLA claimed that the Zehri attack was part of an exercise for the second phase of ‘Operation Herof,’ the first phase of which took place in August last year when the group took control of Balochistan for several hours.