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Pakistan: Baloch Army executes 7 people identified as Pakistani agents; TTP kills police in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
ISLAMABAD: The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) has said that it has executed seven men it accused of working for Pakistani forces, including one it accused of killing Professor Ghamkhwar Hayat. On the other hand, the Baloch Republican Guards (BRG) claimed on November 9, Sunday to have killed five personnel in a drone strike and convoy ambush in Balochistan’s Kachhi district. In a statement, BLA spokesperson Jeeyand Baloch said the seven men were detained during operations in different areas of Balochistan and sentenced to death by the “Baloch National Court” on charges of espionage, military facilitation and “national treason”. The statement described their interrogations as “thorough and transparent” and said the executions took place in October. The BLA identified the man it accused of killing Professor Ghamkhwar Hayat as Muhammad Murad, son of Ghulam Mustafa Mengal, a resident of Qadirabad in Nushki. It said fighters detained him in Nushki city and executed him on October 8. The details regarding the execution only been given a month later now as has happened in the past. According to the statement, Murad confessed that Shabbir, whom the organisation described as a “death squad” leader, and a Frontier Corps commandant had assigned him to assassinate the professor in May. The BLA alleged that they provided him with a motorcycle and a weapon, which he used to shoot Hayat near Killi Mengal Stadium. The BLA also accused Murad of gathering intelligence and facilitating military raids and enforced disappearances in Qadirabad, Killi Mengal and Killi Badini. It said he had helped Pakistani forces during a March 2025 raid on the home of BLA fighter Jehanzeb Mengal, alias Balach, in Killi Qadirabad, where Jehanzeb was killed in the ensuing clash. BLA executes six men alleged as Pakistani government agents The BLA said it had executed four other men in Quetta’s Hanna Urak area. Ehsanullah, son of Manan Khan, and Haji Noor, son of Taj Muhammad, were executed on October 19 after what the BLA described as admissions that they had supplied Pakistani forces with rations and other military supplies. The statement claimed Ehsanullah had supplied military installations since 2019, including FC headquarters and posts in Ghaza Band, Mach and Margat, and had received special access cards from an officer named Major Moeen. Haji Noor was accused of delivering supplies and facilitating the movement of military and gas company personnel. Nusrat and Eesa Muhammad were executed at the same location on October 30, according to the statement, which accused them of taking part in military operations, recruiting informants and providing logistical support and armed protection for the movement of Pakistani forces. The BLA said the remaining two men, Noor Ahmad and Khan Muhammad, son of Gul Khan, were detained in Bala Dhaka, Kohlu, and executed on October 13. It said both worked as security guards for what it described as an “exploitative company” and accused them of guarding projects, transporting military supplies, clearing routes and gathering intelligence. The statement said they had repeatedly been warned to stop those activities. The BLA also threatened similar action against others it accused of assisting Pakistani forces, intelligence agencies and state-backed armed groups. BRG claims drone strike and convoy ambush Meanwhile, the BRG said its “Aamir Aero Guardians” drone unit attacked a joint Pakistani military and police camp in Bagh, Kachhi district, at around 8 a.m. on Sunday. Spokesperson Dostain Baloch claimed one member of the forces was killed and another seriously wounded. Around two hours later, he said, BRG fighters ambushed a military convoy in the Bolan area of Kachhi with rockets and other heavy weapons. He claimed four personnel were killed and several others wounded in the ambush, while military vehicles sustained severe damage. Sunday’s claim comes after a series of reported drone attacks on military camps and convoys in Balochistan during the closing days of October, with both the BLA and BRG claiming operations by dedicated drone units. The BLA had announced its aerial and drone warfare unit, “QAHR”, as operational on February 12. It had also said its early operations included strikes on military and port installations at Gwadar Port during “Operation Herof II”. The BRG announced “Aamir Aero Guardians” on October 30, when it claimed a drone attack on a military camp in Sanni, Kachhi, the previous evening. It claimed casualties and damage but gave no figures. On November 5, the BLA claimed responsibility for three operations carried out by “QAHR” between October 26 and 30, which it said killed more than seven personnel in Surab, Kharan and Kalat. Its statement described nine drone strikes on the military camp at Tarki Dam in Surab on October 26, followed by five strikes on a mortar pit and other defensive positions at Patkin in Kharan on October 29. Two personnel were killed and three seriously wounded in the Patkin attack, it claimed. Also Read: Keralam: BJP leader Yuvraj Gokul faces FIR after PFI-linked SDPI complaint over exposing Hindu temple desecration The BLA said three successive drone strikes targeted a military convoy at Rodenjo in Kalat on October 30, after which fighters positioned along the highway launched an ambush. It claimed five personnel were killed and two military vehicles severely damaged in the “coordinated drone and ground attacks”. The organisation also released footage purportedly showing “QAHR” attacks on Pakistani military personnel and installations in Kalat, Nushki, Mastung, Qilla Abdullah and Kharan. Carnage continues in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province Meanwhile, a police constable was killed and three other personnel were abducted when armed Tehrik Taliban Pakistan (TTP) men attacked the Shalmas Pir Ziarat police post in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s (K-P’s) Hangu. The attack was carried out late on Sunday night, Hangu District Police Officer (DPO) Salahuddin Kundi has said. DPO Kundi told the reporters that armed men took the three personnel towards Khanano Kot in the Samana mountain range. A heavy contingent of police and security forces reached the scene, where an exchange of fire between the two sides took place. Police personnel later regained control of the post on Shah Almas Pir Mountain and launched […]
