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How India Sponsors Unrest in Balochistan

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Pakistan’s largest and most resource-rich province has long been a target of regional power politics. In recent years, mounting evidence and confessions from captured operatives, intercepted communications, and financial trails have exposed an elaborate and deliberate Indian campaign to destabilize Balochistan through support for separatist groups like the BLA. Central to this campaign is India’s premier intelligence agency, the RAW, which has allegedly coordinated, funded, and facilitated a string of terrorist operations on Pakistani soil.

India’s resentment toward Pakistan’s creation in 1947 and its role in the 1971 East Pakistan secession is well documented. However, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 2015 speech in Dhaka, openly boasting about India’s involvement in Bangladesh’s formation, was not just a historical admission-it was a policy declaration. The roots of this policy can be traced to a broader strategic vision articulated by senior Indian officials. In 2014, India’s National Security Advisor, Ajit Doval, issued a blunt warning: “You do one more Mumbai, and you lose Balochistan.” His words indicated a calculated shift toward hybrid warfare. Doval’s doctrine emphasized the use of non-state actors, psychological operations, and covert tactics to achieve strategic objectives against adversaries, particularly Pakistan. This policy has since........

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