Balochistan Insurgency News & Analysis

Baloch Conflict: No Longer a Low-Level Insurgency

A U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook helicopter carrying Pakistani civilians is shown during an evacuation flight over a mountain pass in Pakistan Aug. 5, 2010. Humanitarian relief and evacuation missions are being conducted as part of the disaster relief efforts to assist Pakistanis in flood-stricken regions of the nation. (DoD photo by Staff Sgt. Horace Murray, U.S. Army/Released)

Pakistan’s Balochistan insurgency has become more lethal, widespread, and varied over the course of 2022.

Quetta Hotel Attack: CPEC in the Pakistan Taliban’s Crosshairs?

Photo from the aftermath of a 2016 bombing attack in Quetta. modified, cc Voice of America, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?sort=last_edit_desc&search=quetta+bomb+filetype%3Abitmap&title=Special%3ASearch&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&advancedSearch-current=%7B%22fields%22%3A%7B%22filetype%22%3A%22bitmap%22%7D%7D&ns0=1&ns6=1&ns14=1#/media/File:August_2016_Quetta_attacks_army.jpg

Was the targeting of China’s ambassador a coincidence, or does it represent a change of tact on the part of the Pakistan Taliban?

Gwadar Attack Highlights Risks to Belt and Road’s CPEC

GwadarPort, cc Bjoertvedt, modified, Wiki Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pakistan_Balochistan_province_-_Gwadar_IMG_7931.jpg

An attack on a luxury hotel by Baloch separatists has brought the risks imperiling the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) into sharp relief.

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