ISIS Declares War Against Baloch Nationalist Army And Human Rights Activists Of Balochistan
By New Age Islam Staff Writer
29 May 2025
IS-K Has Also Warned Baloch People Not To Participate In The Rallies Organised By Baloch Human Rights Organisations
Main Points:
1. IS-K has released a 36 minute video in Pashto.
2. IS-K says BLA killed its fighters in Mastung.
3. The incident took place in March.
4. This is a new turn in insurgency in Balochistan.
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Amid the clashes between Baloch nationalists and the Pakistan army, a new development has threatened to worsen the already violent situation of Balochistan. The Islamic State of Khorasan has threatened to start attacks on Baloch Liberation Army, Baloch Liberation Front and Baloch Yakjehti Committee. In its 36 minute video in Pashto released on 26 May, the video says that the BLA has killed its fighter in Mastung which is a breach of the compromise between them. Therefore, they have decided to wage a war against the Baloch groups. In the video, the speaker instructs its fighters to carry out intensified attacks against the Baloch nationalists. He also warns the Baloch people not to participate in protest meetings and rallies organised in support of the disappeared people as the rallies will also be targeted. The Baloch Yakjehti Group led by Dr Mahrang Baloch organises rallies in support of missing persons. Mahrang Baloch is already in jail. The photographs of the families of the missing persons were also shown in the video to intimidate them. He said that the Baloch groups were secular and against Islamic principles.
The speaker does not tell when and how many of his men were killed by the Baloch group but from sources in Afghanistan, it was known that the killing of ISIS fighters was carried out in the month of March and 30 IS-K men were killed.
Political analysts have questioned the need and timing of the video. The IS-K men were killed in March but the militant group has released its video towards the end of May when the Pak army has started its operation in Washuk and has destroyed crops, homes and gardens of the Balochs and has intensified its extrajudicial killings in Balochistan. The Pakistan army kidnapped the secretary and M.Phil. student of Nushki, Abdul Ghani Baloch from Khuzdar. The militia associated with the army kidnapped a 11 year old girl and later informed his family that she was married off to a fighter. His brother Lal Khan Baloch has appealed for her release. Another youth, Ghaus Baloch from Abran was summoned by the army to their camp and was kidnapped on visit. Later, his mutilated body was recovered. In Bar Khan, three dead bodies of missing persons were recovered by the locals. On 23 May, a student and a driver were kidnapped by the counter terrorism department in Kali Mengalabad. In Quetta, a class VIII student Aurangzeb was kidnapped. According to Baloch human rights groups, in April 2025 alone, 151 people were kidnapped by the army and the counter-terrorism department and 23 people were killed extrajudicially. The army has destroyed the houses and crops in Qalat. On 24 May, the Baloch journalist Abdul Latif Baloch was shot dead by unknown people in front of his family members in the wee hours. His son Saif Baloch had already been killed with other people in February this year.
Political observers are of the view that the Pak army has pitched the IS-K against the Baloch nationalists taking advantage of the rift between them. The former US envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad said that the fight between the BLA and the IS-K continued for three days and 30 IS men were killed. Mastung has been known as the centre of the activities of the IS-K in Balochistan and they have carried out a number of suicide attacks in Mastung since 2018 and have owned responsibility. But the Pakistan government has been lying to the world about the presence of the banned organisation in Pakistan. The video has raised doubts about the intent of the army in Balochistan.
The political analysts feel that the IS-K fighters have been brought from Syria and Turkey with the help of Turkey's President Erdogan to weaken the Baloch rebels. Erdogan had earlier sent 4000 IS fighters to help Azerbaijan in its war against Armenia. Erdogan had also helped Pakistan militarily during Operation Sindoor launched against Pakistan. Pakistan's Field Marshall Asif Munir and Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif have also toured Turkey, Iran and Azerbaijan with the purpose of mobilising military and moral.support for its operations in Balochistan and against India. Observers also fear that the Pak army will help the IS financially and logistically against the Baloch fighters and will also weaken the peaceful movement of the Baloch human rights activists by carrying out suicide attacks on the protest meetings and rallies in support of missing persons. The ISIS is known for suicide attacks on civilians. In Quetta, it had carried out suicide attacks on lawyers killing about 85 lawyers. In 2018, it had carried out a suicide attack on an election rally, killing dozens of innocent people. It may, therefore, carry out suicide attacks on the protest meetings of Baloch Yakjehti Committee and kill hundreds of innocent people. The army may also provide information about the activists and journalists to the IS.
It is, therefore, clear that the Pakistani army wants to intensify its operations against the Baloch people with the covert support of the IS-K and for this purpose it has demanded an increase in its defence budget in the forthcoming budget. Some of the members of the Pak assembly have demanded a two fold and three fold increase in the defence budget and a two-three fold hike in salaries of the army personnel. All this hints at a sinister game plan of the Pak army against the Baloch people. The ISIS that has caused large scale death and destruction in Syria and Iraq will unleash a similar kind of terror in Balochistan with the covert support of the Pak army and the Shahbaz Sharif government.
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