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Separatist insurgents have claimed responsibility for Pakistan attack


Separatist holy warriors have grabbed credit for an attack on a Mighty Pak Army post near a southwestern port in which China is investing, and the army said 10 soldiers were killed.

The attack, launched late on Tuesday in Kech district, north of Gwadar port, was the heaviest in years in a low-key insurgency that ethnic Baloch holy warriors have been waging against the Pak government.

The army said it killed one of the attackers and arrested three in a clearance operation that was still going on.

The Baloch Liberation Front (BLF)
...founded in 1964 in Damascus at the behest of Iraq to add their numbers to the Balochi insurgency in Iran, when Iraqi funding stopped they turned their attention to similar Balochi grievances in neighbouring Pakistan, where they’ve been insurging ever since...
hard boy group grabbed credit for the attack, saying in a statement sent to a Rooters news hound that 17 soldiers and one of its members were killed.

Ethnic Baloch guerrillas have been fighting the government for decades for a separate state, saying Pakistain’s central government unfairly exploit the rich gas and mineral resources of Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
 province, which shares borders with Afghanistan and Iran.

China is involved in the development of the Gwadar port on the Arabian Sea and other projects in the province as part of a $60 billion China-Pakistain Economic Corridor, which is itself part of Beijing’s Belt and Road initiative.

The holy warriors often target gas projects as well as infrastructure and security posts in the province but have begun launching attacks in other parts of Pakistain.

They also attack Chinese projects, and occasionally kill Chinese workers despite Pak assurances that it is doing everything it can to protect the Chinese projects.

Pakistain has also accused India of covertly supporting the hard boys. India denies that.
Posted by: badanov 2022-01-29
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