As Balochistan is the largest province of Pakistan, it is quite a difficult task to manage it. Hence Balochistan has been divided into two parts, Part A and Part B. Part A consists of only 10 percent of the whole Balochistan, whereas B part is the other Balochistan. Police control law and order situation of the A part, well-organized, 90% Balochistan is maintained by the Levies.
Attacks against the police are not so popular of an issue in Balochistan. In part, this may be because the police generally accept danger, or the uncertainty of injury or death, as an integral part of police work. However, the magnitude of violence against the police has been increased in various parts of Balochistan in last two months. The issue is worrisome for all Law Enforcement Agencies as they are in efforts to contain the aggravated situation.
Last month District Police Officer (DPO) Killa Abdullah Sajid Mohmand and his guard lost their lives in a blast near Boghra Road in Chaman district. Reports later revealed that 11 civilians from Kandahar were in that attack. Chaman is one of the fragile areas in Balochistan as it shares a border with Afghanistan’s volatile Kandahar province.
That’s not the sole case, In July the police superintendent Mubarak Shah Achakzai was gunned down with three of his guards. According to the sources, the main perpetrators were Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) and Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) behind the killings of the cops. The changing ethnicity in police department and well organized hierarchy are the main reasons to get targeted by these banned terrorist organizations.
In May, there was a big achievement by the LEAs as they arrested Saeed Ahmad Badini, who is the Quetta emir of the TTP. He revealed that he also worked with LeJ. A proper alliance has been formed for a common enemy. Badini was the alleged mastermind of last year’s Quetta carnage of lawyers at the Quetta Civil Hospital, the Police Training College and the Shah Noorani shrine in Khuzdar district.
Last night another Intelligence Based Operation was being organized by the LEAs and it was successful. The facilitators of the suicide bombing in Chaman which killed the District Police Officer (DPO) Killa Abdullah Sajid Mohmand has been arrested. Balochistan Home Minister Sarfaraz Bugti said that these facilitators are named as Mehmood and Muhammad Saleem. The Home Minister further revealed that they confessed that money has been transferred to them from Kandahar province. Moreover, their affiliation is from TTP which they revealed after the arrest. Arms cache and suicide jackets have been recovered from these terrorists.
The whole scenario isn’t new for Pakistan, state agencies already know from where the attacks have been carried out. High-level meetings have been conducted with the officials of Afghanistan Government but they aren’t fruitful yet. The Government of Pakistan is hampering their efforts to put Afghanistan on the same table, as the stability in Afghanistan will ensure the stability in Pakistan. Whereas, Provincial Government and LEAs are more active in Balochistan to foil all terrorist activities.
