Pakistan Goes After Balochi Terror Groups: Accounts frozen
These groups are agitators within Pakistan, but they are also seeded along the border and some attack within Iran - this could be a sign of Pakistan trying to better relations with a neighbor, or Pakistan fearing unrest in yet another frontier.
Addressing a crowded news conference along with provincial Home Minister Mir Zafrullah Zehri and IGP Balochistan Malik Muhammad Iqbal at the CM Secretariat here, he said that in view of the decision, the Frontier Corps, Balochistan, had been granted special powers of search and raids for a period of three months.
He maintained that no Swat-like operation was being launched, rather it was a special action aimed at uprooting terrorism from Balochistan. He said all those groups in Balochistan who use words like ‘liberation’, ‘army’ and ‘lashkar’ as part of their names would be banned. He warned that strict action would be taken against them if they were found involved in anti-state activities.
The banned groups are the Balochistan Republican Army (BRA), Baloch Liberation Front (BLF), Balochistan Liberation United Front (BLUF), Baluch Defaee Tanzeem and Lashkar-e-Balochistan, Malik said.