The Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF) has announced the “successful conclusion” of a large-scale military campaign, “Operation Baam,” claiming responsibility for 84 coordinated attacks across Balochistan over a two-day period.
In a statement released Friday evening, BLF spokesperson Major Gwahram Baloch said the group conducted the attacks between 9 and 11 July, targeting Pakistani military forces, intelligence agencies, and state infrastructure.
According to the group, at least 50 personnel from the Frontier Corps and Pakistan Army were killed, while more than 51 others were injured. The BLF also claimed to have executed nine individuals it identified as intelligence operatives, reportedly intercepted at a checkpoint set up in Musakhel.
The BLF said its fighters carried out over 30 direct attacks on military personnel, four ambush-style assaults, and targeted a range of institutions, including police, Levies, Customs, Military Intelligence (MI), and the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
During the operation, the BLF claimed it destroyed or disabled 25 vehicles, including gas tankers and trucks involved in mineral transportation. It said seven mobile towers were set on fire, five surveillance drones were shot down, and a bank and a government secretariat bus were damaged.
The group also claimed to have established 22 temporary checkpoints across key regions of Balochistan, including Makuran, Rakhshan, Sarawan, Jhalawan, Koh-e-Sulaiman, Bela, and Kachhi. In several locations, BLF fighters reportedly seized weapons.
The BLF described Operation Baam as a “strategic shift” in its military doctrine, aimed at “crippling the colonial administrative machinery” of what it called the “occupying Pakistani state.” The operation, the group said, demonstrated a growing level of organizational strength and coordination.
In a strongly worded political message, the BLF said the Pakistani state “can no longer maintain its writ in Balochistan through violence, propaganda, or the illusion of so-called parliamentary politics.” It accused the Pakistani establishment of exploiting Balochistan’s natural resources and marginalizing its people through “Punjabi chauvinism and fascism.”
“We make it absolutely clear to the occupying Pakistani state and Punjabi rulers that Balochistan will no longer remain the goose that lays golden eggs,” the statement said.
The group warned that continued attempts to suppress the Baloch independence movement would come at an increasing cost to Pakistan. It described Operation Baam as a “milestone” in the broader Baloch national liberation struggle.