The United Nations (UN) should immediately designate the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) as a terrorist organisation due to its violent history of asymmetric warfare, targeting of civilians, and threats to regional and international infrastructure. Arguments and developments surrounding this push centre on undeniable facts which expose the ugly face of the terrorist outfit.

The BLA operates as part of a highly coordinated, multi-layered nexus involving India’s intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), and religious extremist groups like the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Al-Qaeda. While these entities hold completely contrasting ideological and political views, Pakistani intelligence and UN Security Council monitoring reports confirm they maintain a marriage of convenience.

Their singular, shared objective is to execute unconventional warfare to economically, politically, and physically destabilise Pakistan. As per Pakistan intelligence sources, RAW provides sophisticated funding and modern hardware. The BLA has increasingly used NATO-standard weapons and advanced explosive equipment-often routed through cross-border channels-to mount highly lethal assaults on Pakistani law enforcement. Security analysts highlight that RAW utilises the BLA in Balochistan and the TTP along the western border to trap Pakistan in a permanent internal security crisis.

A global UN designation would drastically shrink........

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