The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) has claimed responsibility for an attack on two Pakistan Coast Guards boats in Jiwani, a coastal area of Gwadar district in Balochistan, claiming that 13 personnel were killed.
In a statement, BLA spokesperson Jeeyand Baloch said the group’s maritime unit, the Hammal Maritime Defence Force (HMDF), simultaneously targeted two large Coast Guards boats in what he described as a coordinated and intense attack. He claimed that 13 personnel were killed at the scene.
There was no immediate response from Pakistani authorities regarding the reported attack or casualties.
Jeeyand Baloch said the BLA had formally announced the establishment of the HMDF on 13 April 2026, describing it as part of the group’s efforts to expand the scope of the Baloch independence movement and protect Balochistan’s maritime territory, coastline and resources.
He further claimed that the unit had carried out its first maritime operation on 12 April 2026 at Mil Tiyab in Jiwani, targeting a Pakistani Navy patrol boat and killing three naval personnel.
The spokesperson said the unit was named after Hammal Jeeyand Baloch, whom the group described as a prominent Baloch maritime resistance figure of the sixteenth century who opposed Portuguese colonial expansion in the region.
According to the statement, the HMDF aims to defend what the BLA describes as occupied coastlines and disrupt the maritime movements of Pakistani forces. The group said it would release further details about the latest operation at a later date.
Armed men reportedly established a checkpoint on the Harnai–Sanjavi Highway in Balochistan and abducted two men from Punjab while inspecting vehicles at Tor Kham Tangi.
According to reports, the armed men stopped vehicles and checked passengers’ identity cards before taking the two men to an undisclosed location.
Harnai police identified the abducted men as Asghar, son of Muhammad Asif, and Tariq. Both are reportedly residents of Chowk Qureshi in Muzaffargarh district, Punjab.
Police said the two men were non-local residents who worked as truck drivers. No one had claimed responsibility for the incident at the time of publication.
Such incidents have been reported in various parts of Balochistan amid a long-running conflict involving Baloch nationalist armed groups and Pakistani military and law-enforcement agencies. Baloch armed groups have periodically established temporary checkpoints on highways, inspected vehicles and carried out attacks on security installations, particularly in districts including Kachhi, Kalat, Nushki, Kech, Kharan and Mastung.
In September, armed checkpoints were reported across several districts of Balochistan, including Kharan, Kalat and Surab. Separate reports from Nushki indicated that armed men had entered the city and allegedly seized weapons from police personnel.
Similar incidents were reported in August, when armed men reportedly established checkpoints in Chagai and Mastung. Local sources said vehicle inspections in Chagai continued for more than four hours before the armed men left the area.
Separately, in mid-September, five residents of Punjab were abducted in Balochistan’s Killa Abdullah district. Local sources identified them as Inam Raza, Baqir Hussain, Mohammad Adnan, Mohammad Shehzad and Mohammad Azan, all residents of Muzaffargarh district, Punjab.
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Armed men have allegedly abducted five passengers, including a Pakistan Customs official, after a passenger bus travelling from Quetta to Dalbandin broke down at Charsar in Balochistan’s Chagai district, sources said.
The abducted customs official was identified as Mohammad Ibrahim Domki, a resident of Jaffarabad district, who was travelling on the bus to report for duty.
According to sources, the armed men checked the passengers’ identity cards before taking Domki and four other passengers to an undisclosed location. Their whereabouts and current condition were not immediately known.
No one had claimed responsibility for the incident at the time of writing, and there was no immediate official statement from the authorities confirming the abductions.
The incident comes amid repeated reports of armed men stopping vehicles and targeting government personnel and commercial traffic along major highways in Balochistan.
On 21 July 2026, three excise officials were abducted at gunpoint after armed men attacked a temporary departmental checkpoint on the Dalbandin–Taftan Highway in Chagai district, according to police sources. The attackers reportedly took two official vehicles and weapons as well.
In a separate incident in August, armed men seized five commercial vehicles carrying goods at Charsar on the Quetta–Taftan Highway. Three vehicles were travelling towards Taftan from Quetta, while two were heading in the opposite direction.
Balochistan has also witnessed deadly abductions of passengers travelling on inter-district and inter-provincial routes. In July 2025, at least nine passengers were abducted and killed after armed men stopped two coaches in the Sur-Dakai area on the border between Zhob and Loralai districts. According to reports, the armed men checked passengers’ identity cards before taking several people away.
The motive behind the latest incident and whether the abducted individuals were specifically targeted because of their identities or occupations remained unclear.
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