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Pakistani Forces Hit With Separatist IEDs (NSFW)
Published 3 years ago
Baluchistan separatists of the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) released footage showing three improvised explosive device (IED) attacks against Pakistani troops and logistics during the late summer, early autumn 2021.
Over the past year the BLA have shifted focus from standard small arms linear ambushes to also relying heavily on IED attacks. The use of improvised explosive devices allows for the insurgents to inflict comparable amounts of casualties while employing less troops, and therefore reducing the risk of friendly casualties. Using less troops also allows for less detectable infiltration operations into higher profile areas.
The various Baluchistan insurgent groups are fighting for independence from Pakistan as they claim the Pakistan government offers their ethnic group no representation within the government, while extracting resources from their mineral rich province and selling out their ancestral lands to Chinese investors.
However, the Trump administration designated the BLA as a foreign terror organization as part of a relationship mending maneuver with the Chinese. What's odd is that Pakistan has facilitated the Taliban for two decades in their fight against the US, harbored Osama bin Laden, facilitated the Mumbai massacre terror attack against the Indian people, and also assisted the Taliban with airstrikes and intelligence against the Panjshir resistance fighters following the American withdrawal from Afghanistan, yet somehow the Pakistani government doesn't have a terror designation of their own...
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