In a horrific act of terror in Balochistan, nine passengers travelling to Punjab were offloaded from two buses, abducted and brutally killed. All victims hailed from various areas of Punjab and were targeted after their identification cards were checked. The Balochistan government spokesperson has officially confirmed these devastating killings, sending shockwaves across the nation.
The incident took place late on Thursday, on the national highway in Zhob district’s Sur-Dakai area, armed insurgents stopped two Punjab-bound buses. Assistant Commissioner Zhob Naveed Alam reported that after checking travellers’ ID cards, nine passengers were offloaded and shot dead. He further confirmed that the bodies of these nine individuals, all from various parts of Punjab province, have been recovered.
The province of Balochistan has become the theatre for regional actors to play proxy warfare, as the latest terrorist attacks on passenger buses in Mastung, Kalat, Sardhaka and Quetta follow a familiar pattern of foreign-sponsored violence. Shahid Rind, the spokesperson of the Balochistan government, stated that terrorists were associated with Fitna-al-Hindustan.
Similar incidents, such as the March 2025 Jaffer Express train hijacking, marked the killing of 21 passengers triggered serious escalation in the ongoing wave of terrorism, occurring just months after the Mastung blast which targeted a religious procession. These are not isolated events, but strategically sketched by Indian intelligence agencies to sabotage Pakistan and particularly destabilise Balochistan through proxies.
New Delhi’s Fingerprints over the Insurgency
The relentless bloodshed in Balochistan bears the obtrusive marks of Fitna-al-Hindustan’s interference. The brutal attacks on Jaffer Express and targeted attacks on CPEC projects reveal that deliberate campaigns were employed to destabilise the region. The forensic evidence, militant confessions, precision and techniques of these attacks suggest India’s involvement in perpetuating the insurgency. The weapons are usually smuggled from Afghanistan, funding is routed via third-world countries through networks of Hawal and Hundi, whereas training is provided to these terrorist outfits in different sleeper cells spread across borders.
India’s intention behind sponsoring these proxies is to weaken Pakistan by fueling insurgency, sabotaging economic progress, and diverting attention from its atrocities in Kashmir. Despite Pakistan’s repeated dossiers and pleas for international scrutiny, India continues its state-sponsored terrorism with impunity. The world must acknowledge these attacks as a foreign-sponsored campaign of chaos, not cases of local unrest. Until India is held accountable, Balochistan’s suffering will persist.
India’s Role in Amplifying Anti-State Sentiments
India structured a three-pronged strategy to engineer political unrest in Balochistan by exploiting and amplifying anti-state sentiments.
- First, intelligence networks actively identify and radicalise vulnerable Baloch youth, transforming legitimate socioeconomic grievances into violent extremism through sophisticated propaganda channels.
- Second, providing financial assistance, cash incentives, to conduct high-profile terrorist attacks on various locations in Balochistan.
- Third, falsely rebranding terrorist acts as a struggle for freedom, and portraying terrorist organisations as social activists.
- The EU Disinfo Lab report revealed a network of more than 750 fake news sites and media outlets promoting anti-state, separatist movements in Pakistan.
The ultimate goal of this proxy warfare is not to empower the Baloch people but to destabilise the economy of Pakistan and create a perpetual crisis that drains Pakistan’s security resources. The international community must recognise that what’s presented as a separatist movement is a rigorously crafted insurgency, with India pulling the strings from behind the curtain while maintaining plausible deniability on the global stage.
From Bodies to Bombs: India’s Bio-political Warfare
India has transformed Balochistan into a laboratory of biopolitical warfare, where human lives are used as a tool of violence. Through intelligence networks, Baloch youth are radicalised, armed, and deployed as expendable weapons in the proxy war against Pakistan. This insidious strategy follows Foucault’s framework of biopower. India does not just kill, but rather manages Baloch lives to serve its geopolitical aims. By polarising the Balochi people and turning them against the State, India seeks to control the carnage. The forensic evidence extracted from Indian-made weapons and intercepted handler communications exposes this biopolitical machinery, where each attack proves the lives of innocent Pakistanis are mere raw material in India’s war factory.
Conclusion
The evidence overwhelmingly exposes India’s covert war in Balochistan, which involves calculated tactics to biopolitically manipulate and create political unrest in the region. From the Jaffer Express massacre to targeted attacks on CPEC projects, forensic trails of weapons, intercepted communications, and militant confessions consistently point to Indian involvement in the region. India has weaponised Baloch grievances, only to fuel an endless cycle of violence that weakens Pakistan.
The three-pronged strategy: recruiting vulnerable youth, sponsoring terrorism and violence, and controlling narratives through fake media channels, reveals a cold-blooded bio-political experiment where death has been used as a tool to acquire geopolitical ambitions. Baloch lives are reduced to expendable tools in India’s geopolitical games, with militants trained in Afghan camps, armed with Indian-made weapons, and pushed into suicide missions.
Despite Pakistan’s irrefutable evidence, the international community remains silent, allowing India to act with impunity. If this state-sponsored terrorism continues unchecked, Balochistan’s suffering will only deepen. The world must stop ignoring India’s destabilising role and hold it accountable before more innocent lives are lost to this shadow war.
