The Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) has claimed responsibility for the attack on Saturday that left two people dead in Mangucher. BLA said that those two persons were “working on the payroll of the Pakistani state and were involved in spying on Baloch pro-independence groups and the enforced disappearances of the Baloch youth.”
In a media statement, BLA identified the two victims as Rahim Din s/o Shehbaz and Qadir Baksh s/o Abdul Fatah. The group said that the deceased were working under patronage of the Pakistani state for several years. “They had accompanied and assisted the Pakistani forces in their military operations in Nagahu and Shur-parod areas. Furthreomore, the duo were also a part of a death squad and were involved in the enforced disappearance of the Baloch youth and spying on pro-independence groups”, BLA said.
BLA spokesman Jeeyand Baloch said that they have repeatedly made it clear that the punishment for treachery is death. The group said that any person or group found assisting the Pakistani forces in their “nefarious designs” in Balochistan will be eliminated. We have identified several “facilitators” of the Pakistani state in the Nagahu and Johan areas and warned that they should end their operations or they, too, will face the consequences, the statement read.