QUETTA, BALOCHISTAN: The Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF), a separatist group, has claimed responsibility for a series of attacks in Nushki, Panjgur, and Gwadar districts, saying its fighters killed two Frontier Corps (FC) personnel and two individuals it described as informants working for Pakistani military intelligence, in operations carried out between June 7 and June 12, 2026. The claims were made in a statement issued by BLF spokesperson Major Gwahram Baloch.
According to the spokesperson, on June 12, 2026, BLF fighters targeted a Frontier Corps vehicle with an IED attack in the Mall area of Nushki, killing two FC personnel and wounding several others.
Major Gwahram Baloch said that on June 10, 2026, BLF fighters killed two individuals the group identified as Hatum, son of Pir Jan, and Haleem, son of Muhammad Azum, both residents of Sari Koran, Panjgur. A third individual named Mehroz was seriously wounded in the attack. The spokesperson said all three were targeted while traveling through a bazaar toward an FC camp and said they were working under Brigadier Zafar Iqbal.
The BLF spokesperson said that the two individuals killed in Panjgur, describing them as operatives working against the Baloch national movement. According to the statement, Hatum had previously been a member of Lashkar-e-Balochistan and, after surrendering, spent nine years working under a military collaborator in Mashkay.
The spokesperson said Hatum later took command of a group comprising other members and was handled by Brigadier Zafar Iqbal, under whose direction he was assigned to operate in the Sordu, Sari Koran, Washaap, and Washbod areas. The BLF claimed Hatum was directly involved in operations against Baloch youth and women, played a key role in blocking fighters’ routes across multiple areas of Panjgur, facilitated military operations, conducted raids on fighters’ relatives’ homes, and was involved in grenade attacks, abductions, killings, and enforced disappearances. The group also claimed he was involved in coercing families and women into holding forced press conferences and issuing disassociation statements.
Regarding the second individual killed, the BLF spokesperson said Haleem, son of Muhammad Azum, a resident of Sari Koran, had been working for Military Intelligence (MI) since 2017. He said Haleem was involved in numerous alleged crimes including abductions, killings, enforced disappearances, blockades, targeted killings, theft, blackmailing of Baloch women, and forced press conferences. The spokesperson described him as a close associate of Hatum, though he said both led separate groups. He added that Mehroz, a resident of Tasp and a close associate of both, was wounded as he was traveling in the same vehicle at the time of the attack.
According to Major Gwahram Baloch, on June 9, 2026, BLF fighters set up a checkpoint in the Kuchki area of Nushki, searched all passing vehicles, seized the Kuchki police post, and burned it down along with all official records. He said the blockade lasted two hours and was intended to maintain control of the area and restrict the movement of military personnel and their collaborators.
The spokesperson further said that on June 7, 2026, BLF fighters established checkpoints at multiple locations on the Dho-bist Panjah Road in the Gobd Qalato area of Gwadar, taking control of the area. During the operation, he said fighters seized two nearby police checkposts and confiscated government weapons and military equipment, including one M-16 rifle, three Kalashnikov rifles with magazines, one vehicle, and other military supplies. He added that military surveillance cameras installed at the checkpost were also destroyed. The fighters subsequently ambushed advancing military personnel, forcing the military unit to retreat, according to the statement.
The BLF formally claimed responsibility for the killing of two FC personnel and two individuals it described as death squad operatives, the seizure of police posts, and the confiscation of government weapons across the Nushki, Panjgur, and Gwadar operations.
