Panjgur, Khuzdar, and Mastung: The Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF) has claimed responsibility for a series of attacks targeting security forces, police, and mineral transport vehicles across different districts of Balochistan.
According to a statement attributed to BLF spokesperson Major Gwahram Baloch, the organization’s fighters carried out coordinated actions in Panjgur, Khuzdar, and Mastung on October 17.
In Panjgur, the spokesperson said that BLF fighters set up a checkpoint near Nawaz Hotel on the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) road, where a police patrol team was stopped. The personnel were taken into custody, warned, and later released unharmed. Earlier that day, he claimed, a BLF unit targeted a military intelligence operative in Panjgur city, resulting in his death, while another team fired grenade launcher rounds at a nearby forces’ camp, injuring several personnel and damaging surveillance equipment.
The spokesperson further stated that at 8:40 p.m. the same night, BLF fighters attacked the Panchi Police Station in Panjgur, briefly holding officers hostage and seizing three Kalashnikov rifles and a pistol. The police personnel were later released on humanitarian grounds.
Separately, the BLF claimed responsibility for an attack on a forces’ camp in Zeerina Kathan, Khuzdar, where a hand grenade reportedly killed one soldier and injured two others. In another incident, two mineral transport trucks were targeted with gunfire in the Kadkocha area of Mastung, causing damage but no casualties.
Major Gwahram Baloch, the BLF spokesperson, concluded that the organization’s operations would continue until what he described as “the end of occupation” in Balochistan.
