Quetta IED

Today the freedom fighters of Baloch Liberation Army targeted Haji Azad Khan Marri, an agent of Pakistani state forces and its secretive agencies, in Quetta. In the VBIED attack, Azad Khan Marri was killed along with his companions.

Azad Khan Marri was an important agent of Pakistani secretive forces and was involved in harassing family members of Baloch freedom fighters, forcing fighters to surrender before the enemy forces and forming a so-called death squad against the freedom fighters. He was also involved in occupying personal property of poor Baloch people, most recently in New Kahan where he illegally occupied lands of poor civilians.

Baloch Liberation Army has made it clear several times that any person involved in abetting enemy forces and becoming an instrument of its secretive agencies will be dealt severely. Such elements will be targeted at any time and place.

On this occasion, the BLA considers it necessary to present its position on the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) meeting to be held in Quetta today. The PDM is another form of the same occupying state, whose hands are stained with Baloch blood. Almost all the federal parties in PDM alliance have been involved in Baloch genocide in the past, just as the PTI government is today. Today, the way PML-N's Maryam Nawaz is being portrayed as the Messiah of the Baloch people, the nuclear test in Chaghi during the second term of her father tore the chest of the Baloch land and in the third term with her approval thousands went missing and were martyred. During the last PPP government, mass graves recovered from Balochistan, the kill and dump policy was initiated and death squads were formed and imposed on Baloch society. The purpose of this nexus on Baloch soil is not to sympathize with the Baloch but to gain power. Whoever comes to power in Pakistan has not made any difference to Balochistan till date. Balochistan is an occupied territory, which is directly under the control of the army with the support of all these political parties. To expect change from any such political alliance and movement is to live in a fool\u2019s paradise. In Islamabad, whoever has the gun in his hand, will continue killing the Baloch same way. The Baloch nation should put its attention and energy for independence and getting rid of the genocide, instead of choosing a better killer.

The Baloch Liberation Army once again warns all those elements who are mobilized against the liberation movement at the behest of the enemy army, to refrain from their anti-national activities otherwise all such elements will meet the same fate as Haji Azad Khan.

Jeeyand Baloch, spokesperson for the Baloch Liberation Army

Dated: October 25 2020