The author calls a recent Friday “Bloody Friday”: BLA’s Fateh Squad ambushed an FC convoy at Ziarat Cross (18 soldiers dead, two vehicles destroyed, per BLA video) and STOS used an RCIED at Hajika, Surab (seven soldiers). Twenty-five dead in a day, he says, undercuts army claims that Baloch fighters are on the back foot.

ISPR answered with IBOs in Mastung, Quetta, Sibi, and Kalat that it said killed 48 Baloch and TTP fighters. DG ISPR Chaudhry cited 31,000 IBOs and 1,148 clashes in Balochistan Jan–July 2026 (~six a day). SATP-style tallies in the piece: claimed militant deaths rising (125 in 2023 → 948 by 5 Sept 2026) but SF deaths also rising (186 → 660 by Sept 2026). Chaudhry’s metric—“2.5 terrorists per martyr”—is called a body-count doctrine, not control.

The author’s charge: many “killed in encounters” are disappeared men dumped as fighters (Jaffar Express: BLA named 13; ISPR said 33; 23 corpses at Quetta Civil Hospital, 13 buried at night in Kasi). Families coerced to disown the missing. Munir’s April 2025 “beat the hell out of them very soon” is unanswered more than a year later. Who runs Balochistan, and why are IBOs always after the convoy burns? These are the writer’s accusations, not independently verified here.

With sarmachars [guerillas] of the Balochistan Liberation Army [BLA] carrying out two successful attacks, Friday turned out to be a particularly bad day for the Pakistani security forces. In the first incident that occurred at Ziarat Cross, BLA fighters belonging to its Fateh Squad ambushed a Frontier Corps [FC] convoy in broad daylight killing 18 soldiers and destroying two vehicles. In videos released by BLA, its sarmachars can be seen targeting the vehicles.

The second incident took place in Hajika, Surab where BLA’s Special Tactical Operations Squad [STOS] triggered a remote controlled improvised explosive device [RCIED] killing seven Pakistani soldiers and completely destroying their vehicle. Losing 25 soldiers in a single day belies Pakistan army’s repeated claims that not only is the situation in Balochistan under control, but also that Baloch fighters are on the back-foot.

Soon after the Friday killings, Pakistan army’s media wing Inter Services Public Relations [ISPR] claimed that the Pakistan army had carried out several intelligence based operations targeting hideouts in Mastung, Quetta, Sibi and Kalat districts of Balochistan. In these operations 48 fighters armed Baloch groups and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan [TTP] terrorists were reportedly killed which, if true,  is definitely commendable.

However, while the Pakistan army may view the elimination of nearly 50 Baloch fighters........

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