Multiple Baloch armed groups have claimed responsibility for a series of attacks targeting Pakistani military and police forces in different parts of Balochistan over the past several days.
The Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF) said its fighters attacked a Pakistani military camp at the Shadi Kaur Dam area of Pasni on March 2, using light machine guns, rockets and other automatic weapons.
BLF spokesperson Major Gwahram Baloch said the attack was carried out from multiple directions and resulted in the deaths of two military personnel, with several others injured. He said infrastructure inside the camp was also damaged.
In a separate attack a day earlier, the BLF said it carried out what it described as a “coordinated and intense” assault on a Frontier Corps main camp in the Lond Nausham area of Kohlu district.
According to the group, the camp was surrounded and targeted with rocket launchers and automatic weapons, with several rockets striking inside the compound. The BLF said the attack caused “heavy casualties and material losses.”
Separately, the Baloch Republican Guards (BRG) said it attacked a police patrol near the Mir Hassan police station in Naseerabad district.
BRG spokesperson Dostain Baloch said fighters planted explosives and detonated them using a remote-controlled device as a police vehicle passed by, adding that the blast caused casualties and damaged the vehicle.
Meanwhile, the United Baloch Army (UBA) said it targeted a Pakistani military surveillance system in the Mach area on the evening of March 1.
UBA spokesperson Mazar Baloch said fighters destroyed a surveillance tower located between Aab-e-Gum and Geshani, near a main army camp.
He said the tower was equipped with four cameras used to monitor fighters’ movements and detect attacks, and that the operation rendered all cameras “completely inoperable.”
The groups said such attacks would continue until what they described as the “liberation of Balochistan.”
Pakistani military and police officials did not immediately comment on the claims.