In a week-long military operation Bolan and vicinity, more new check posts have been set up by Pakistan Army at Sujawal, Garam-Aaf and various other areas.
The forces had launched a major operation in and around Bolan a week earlier, following an attack by the Baloch armed group BLA in which nine of its personnel were killed, according to Pakistan army officials.
During the operation, there were reports of houses and forests being set on fire including enforced disappearances and gunship helicopter shelling at several places.
Yesterday, the spokesperson of the Baloch National Movement said in his statement that the ground and aerial operations by Pakistan Army have been going on for several days in different areas of Bolan and the gunship helicopters are continuously shelling. He said this operation is being further expanded and most areas of Bolan and Mach are under heavy siege by the Pakistani army and all means of transportation is shut. So far, dozens of people have been reported missing, he added.
BNM spokesperson said “on the one hand Pakistan is planting millions of trees under the project called ‘Billion Tree’ but in occupied Balochistan, the Pakistani army has been committing atrocities against the Baloch nation as well as destroying everything on this soil related to Baloch.
“Dozens of check posts had already been established at various places in Bolan which which were troubling the locals, now installing more check-posts will only increase their problems,” the BNM statement read.
Whereas, the authorities have not yet commented on the military operation or the establishment of checkpoints in the area.
According to reports, the home town of a pro-independence leader, Dr Allah Nizar has been demolished allegedly by Pakistan Army.
A pro-independence armed group, BLF released a statement in this regard terming this act as “war crime”. Balochistan Liberation Front said that Pakistani Army and local death squads under its patronage attacked the Mehi village in Mashkay and bulldozed all the houses.
The spokesman for BLF, Major Gohram Baloch said this was not the first time such barbarism had taken place. Mehi village had been targeted and destroyed several times in the past. When people try to resettle in this village, the army and its proxy death squads burn down or bulldoze houses, largely because Baloch national leader Dr Allah Nazar Baloch belongs to the village. And Mehi is the hometown of Dr. Allah Nazar Baloch, he added.
Gohram Baloch said that internet services have been suspended since 2017 and media is blackout in Balochistan. The international community must hold Pakistan accountable for the worst human rights violations in occupied Balochistan and support the Baloch national struggle for independence against the occupation, Baloch said.