‘Every promise soaked in blood’: Baloch Army slams Pakistan, claims responsibility for 71 attacks

Bystanders look at the wreckage of a bus in Noshki town of Balochistan province on March 17, 2025

The Baloch Liberation Army has claimed responsibility for 71 coordinated attacks against the Pakistani regime at 51 locations, as part of its ongoing ‘Operation Herof’. The BLA said it targeted Pakistani military and intelligence sites, along with local police stations, mineral transport vehicles and infrastructure along major highways.

The BLA stated that the aim of these attacks was not simply the destruction of the enemy but the testing of military coordination, ground control, and defensive positions, as well as the strengthening of readiness for future organised warfare.

In a strongly worded statement issued on May 11, the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) declared that a “new order has become inevitable” in South Asia, asserting that Pakistan’s growing military failures, diplomatic isolation, and use of religious terrorism have created irreversible fractures in the region’s security framework.

The BLA dismissed suggestions that Baloch resistance is a proxy conflict, asserting its independent identity as a “dynamic and decisive party” with a legitimate role in the military, political, and strategic transformation of the region. “The BLA is neither a pawn nor a silent spectator,” said the statement, adding that it will not rest until Pakistan is dismantled as a terror-exporting state.

Calling Pakistan a “state whose hands are stained with blood and whose every promise is soaked in it,” the group rejected Islamabad’s recent calls for ceasefire and dialogue, branding them “a deception and war tactic.” The group urged India and other regional actors to stop entertaining illusions of peace with Pakistan, asserting that “the time has passed to believe in Pakistan’s promises.”

The BLA accused Pakistan of being both a breeding ground and an operational hub for globally designated terror groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammad, and ISIS. It described the Pakistani state as the "nuclear base of violent ideology," posing a threat not only to South Asia but to the wider international community.

The statement called on India and the international community to take “decisive action against this terrorist state,” vowing that the BLA’s armed struggle for Balochistan’s liberation will continue unabated. “We have rendered the enemy helpless on mountains, urban fronts and every other front,” the BLA claimed, asserting that its fight is not only for Baloch freedom but to help “free the entire region from terrorism.”

Criticising global powers for turning a blind eye, the group accused the international community of prioritising short-term strategic and financial interests over long-term peace. It warned that failure to act now would allow Pakistan to further entrench its status as a global epicentre of terrorism.

“The BLA will no longer wait for permission,” the statement concluded, warning of intensified operations to dismantle what it called the “terrorist state of Pakistan.” The group called for “resolute unity” among Baloch factions and hinted at a broader alignment with other resistance movements within Pakistan to challenge Islamabad’s control over its restive provinces.

The BLA, which has been fighting for an independent Balochistan since the early 2000s, positioned itself not as a proxy or pawn of any state, but as a decisive actor in the changing geopolitical calculus of South Asia. Its comments came in the wake of a major military conflict between India and Pakistan, during which Pakistan suffered heavy strategic and technological setbacks, and eventually sounded out for a ceasefire.

Balochistan, Pakistan’s largest and most resource-rich province, has long remained a site of internal conflict. But the BLA’s recent tone suggests that its resistance movement is entering a more aggressive, internationalised phase.

The province’s geostrategic value is immense—it borders Iran and Afghanistan, provides Pakistan direct access to the Arabian Sea, and hosts the China-backed Gwadar port, a crown jewel of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).