What’s behind the US decision to proscribe a Baloch militant group?

The US decision last week to designate a Pakistani separatist group as a terrorist organisation was an acknowledgement of Islamabad’s cooperation in finding a political settlement to Afghanistan’s 18-year-long war with the Taliban – one of the Trump administration’s top priorities, according to analysts.

“It is important that the perpetrators, organisers, financiers and external sponsors including those glorifying these acts of terror against Pakistan are held accountable and brought to justice,” said Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement. The Baloch Liberation Army have claimed responsibility for several attacks targeting security personnel, civilians, state institutions and infrastructure in Pakistan. Pakistani security officials consider the BLA a major source of instability in Balochistan and the country as a whole.

Beijing has established infrastructure projects under the Belt and Road Initiative and linked projects, such as the China Pakistan Economic Corridor – that seeks to link its western province of Xinjiang with Pakistani port city of Gwadar. Three high-impact attacks by the BLA showed a shifting trend in the outfit’s modus operandi.

In the two attacks, the BLA militants wearing suicide bomb vests were not able to blow themselves up, but in Dalbandin attack, the BLA used Achu’s teenage son to carry out a suicide attack on the bus carrying Chinese engineers to boost the morale of the militants. In Pakistan, 71 militant groups are banned, and, among them, at least 13 outfits are linked with the ethnic insurgency in Balochistan. But, the US only listed the BLA, which was banned in Pakistan in 2006, among them. “The reason behind it is that the BLA had claimed responsibility for most of the high-impact attacks using suicide-bombing methods,” Rana told TRT World.

Terming the ban “beyond comprehension and unjustified,” the BLA said in a statement that the US and the European Union should “analyse Pakistani brutalities against Baloch civilians and the expansionist and militaristic designs of China to find out who is the real terrorist in the region.”

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