With Pakistan frantically attempting to secure a much-needed loan from the IMF, an insurgency that has been going on for more than 70 years has reared its head once again.
A reported 132 security forces personnel were killed by the Baloch rebel organizations when they launched attacks against various targets throughout Balochistan. It gets worse: an already nervous Pakistan Army Chief, who sees Indian shadows behind every bush, is likely to order a counterterrorism campaign unlike anything the Baloch have ever seen.
Following Pakistan’s “usual” round of counterterrorism operations in 2021, which included “enforced disappearances” of young men and women, some of whom were later recovered bloodied and tortured, and late-night “knocks on the door,” which the Baloch had come to fear, the insurgency among the