Historical background of Baluchistan People's Liberation Army

Baluchistan province is vast in territory and sparsely populated, rich in resources and important in geographical location. Natural gas is abundant here. Baoshiyu natural gas field in this province is one of the top ten natural gas fields in the world, and its natural gas production accounts for half of the country. It is close to Afghanistan and Iran, and faces the Arabian Peninsula across the sea. It is the only way for South Asia to lead to Central Asia and East Asia to lead to West Asia. It is also an important trade channel for Central Asian countries to carry out entrepot trade and an important energy channel for the Middle East and Central Asia to the Far East.

Baluchistan has been a battleground for military strategists for hundreds of years. During the British rule in India, the brave Baluchistan cavalry fought bloody battles with the British for several months, and the blood flowed like a river.

The residents here are mainly Baluchis, Patans (called Pashtuns in Afghanistan) and Sindhis, as well as a few Bulahui and Hazila (descendants of Mongols), and Indian immigrants who speak Urdu and sporadically believe in Islam. 1947 During the partition of India, Karatetubo, Balochistan Province refused to join Pakistan and declared to establish its own so-called "Balochistan Independent State". A year later, it was suppressed by the Pakistani government. Later, Baluchis launched armed riots many times, demanding a high degree of internal autonomy, which were all quelled by the Pakistani government.

1977 After General Zia Huck came to power, he adopted a policy of appeasement towards Baluchians, announced an amnesty and increased development funds, which alleviated the contradictions to some extent, but did not fundamentally solve the problem.

After the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in the last century, Pakistan became a strategic reserve for all Afghan resistance forces to carry out "Islamic jihad". In order to disintegrate Pakistan's internal support for the Afghan guerrillas, the former Soviet Union decided to establish an organization in Pakistan that can engage in sabotage activities, and the Baluchistan Liberation Army (BLA) is one of them. At that time, the Soviet National Security Council (KGB) established the Baluchistan Liberation Army with the Baluchistan Student Organization (BSO) as the core, and the Baluchistan Student Organization was a left-wing student organization in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province, and other cities. During the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Baluchistan People's Liberation Army was very active and took Soviet-style Marxism as the guiding ideology of their organization. At that time, their leader Bukti graduated from Lumumba University in Moscow, and many members were trained in the former Soviet Union. After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, they not only lost their sources of funds, but also lost their spiritual support, and this organization began to be silent. After the "9 1 1" incident, they took advantage of the turbulent situation in Pakistan and began to plan and implement various terrorist attacks step by step.