Balochistan

Two bombings targeting a political party headquarters and a local government office killed at least 28 people in Balochistan, Pakistan, on Wednesday – the day before a massive nationwide election preceded by outsized political violence and what some have branded state persecution of opposition parties.

Nuclear-armed Pakistan on Wednesday warned that Iran will face “serious consequences” for a wanton missile strike on the Balochistan region.

A powerful suicide bomb was detonated near a mosque in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province on Friday, killing at least 52 and injuring 70 more at last report.

Nikkei Asia reported on Sunday that advanced sniper rifles, night vision goggles, and other top-shelf American military equipment left in Afghanistan during President Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal are resurfacing in the hands of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) terrorists.

China’s state-run Global Times propaganda newspaper speculated on Thursday that “it is highly possible” America supported the group responsible for a burqa-clad suicide bomber detonating herself in front of a Chinese regime Confucius Institute this week.

A suicide bomber detonated herself outside of the Confucius Institute at Karachi University, Pakistan, on Tuesday afternoon, killing three Chinese citizens and one Pakistani.

A Pakistani journalist was killed on Sunday in Balochistan province after a bomb exploded on or near his moving vehicle as he traveled to the nearby city of Karachi, Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper reported Monday.

A gunman believed to be a member of the Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF), a separatist terror group within Pakistan, opened fire on a vehicle carrying two Chinese nationals in Karachi on Wednesday, seriously wounding one, Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper reported on Thursday.

A bomb blast killed at least six people and injured 14 more at a pro-Palestinian rally in southwest Pakistan’s Balochistan province on Friday, local government officials said.

A car bomb blast at a hotel hosting the Chinese ambassador to Pakistan killed four people and injured several others on Wednesday in Quetta, located in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of Iran reportedly opened fire on protesters in the city of Saravan on Monday, killing and injuring an unconfirmed number of people.

Pakistan security forces killed four terrorists armed with “AK-47s, hand grenades, and rocket launchers” who tried to storm the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) in Karachi in a failed hostage attempt on Monday morning, Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper reported.

HELSINKI (AP) – Swedish police say they have identified a body found late last month in a river as that of missing Pakistani journalist Sajid Hussain.

The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a key component of Beijing’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), has struggled to pick up steam under Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, the Nikkei Asian Review reported this week.

Pakistani authorities on Friday accused an Indian intelligence agency of assisting members of the separatist terror group Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) in attacking the Chinese consulate in Karachi last November.

Contents: China’s CPEC project marginalizes Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province; NY Times: CPEC in Pakistan will build military jets and weaponry for China

A terrorist attack Friday against the Chinese consulate in Pakistan’s Karachi region reportedly killed two policemen, two civilians, and the three attackers.

Islamic State jihadists claimed responsibility on Friday for targeting an election rally in Pakistan’s largest province Balochistan, killing an estimated 128, including a provincial seat candidate, and wounding up to 200.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif discussed bilateral relations and security cooperation with officials in neighboring Pakistan this week.

Contents: Iran gives operational control of its Chabahar seaport to India; Comparing Iran’s Chabahar seaport vs Pakistan’s Gwadar seaport

Contents: India kills 3 Pakistani soldiers in Kashmir in revenge attack; Christians celebrate Christmas in Pakistan under tight security

Contents: China alarmed by consequences of its CPEC investment in Pakistan — terrorism and corruption; China halts CPEC funds over concerns about corruption in Pakistan; Pakistan alarmed about a Chinese ‘debt trap’

The embassy of Islamabad’s ally China, in an unsual security warning, cautioned its nationals in Pakistan that “terrorists” are planning to target them in a “series of attacks” soon.

Contents: Two Chinese citizens in Pakistan executed ten days after being abducted; Execution of Chinese citizens blamed on Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ); Concerns grow about the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)

Shiite-majority Iran has once again fired a mortar shell into the restive Balochistan province of its predominantly Sunni neighbor Pakistan, this time killing at least one individual.

State-sponsor of terrorism Iran has fired at least five mortar shells from its territory into Sunni-majority Pakistan’s largest province of Balochistan, nearly two weeks after the head of the Shiite Islamic Republic’s military threatened to hit terror “safe havens” in Pakistan in response to a cross-border attack by a Sunni terrorist group.

Suspected fighters from a designated ethno-nationalist terrorist group killed at least thirteen individuals within a week who were working on projects affiliated with the Chinese-funded “Silk Road” project in Pakistan’s Balochistan province, on the border of war-ravaged Afghanistan.

Contents: China forum launches the decades-long ‘One Belt One Road’ project; Laborers on China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) shot dead on Saturday

Contents: Massive China-Pakistan CPEC energy project said to end energy crisis ‘soon’; Skeptics claim that CPEC will only benefit China, not Pakistan; Pakistan will use dark financing to cover the cost of protecting Chinese workers

Contents: Pakistan: Four secular anti-military activists vanish over the weekend; Pakistan’s army accused of dumping over 1,000 bodies in Balochistan

The case of the honor killing of Qandeel Baloch, a model and outspoken feminist who became known as “Pakistan’s Kim Kardashian” before her brother strangled her to death at age 26, will once again have to wait, as regional lawyers are on strike in a nation in which their trade is often dangerous.

Contents: Taliban attack on German consulate in Afghanistan kills six; Afghan Taliban attack on Bagram base kills four Americans; 14-year-old suicide bomber kills dozens in Sufi shrine in Pakistan

Contents: Pakistan reels after 60 young police cadets killed in terror attack in Balochistan; Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) may be getting revenge for police attack on leader

Contents: Violence in India-controlled Kashmir grows as thousands defy curfew; India and Pakistan in vitriolic accusations at the UN over Kashmir and Balochistan

Contents: Pakistan again in shock after bloody terrorist attack in Quetta; The debate in Pakistan: Good terrorists vs Bad terrorists; Violence and unrest increase in India’s Kashmir

A jihadist of the Taliban Islamic terror group blew himself up Monday morning in a hospital in Quetta, the capital of the volatile Balochistan province in southwestern Pakistan, killing at least 70 and wounding 120 more.