On 31 January 2026, the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), an armed nationalist group, launched more than twelve simultaneous and coordinated attacks in different cities of Balochistan, including Quetta, the provincial capital. These attacks are considered a huge failure of the state’s security apparatus, as Balochistan has been heavily militarised for more than two decades. As a retaliation for such incidents, the state has always been targeting the civilian population while shutting down the internet and all means of communication.

Political and human rights activists are abducted, disappeared, and jailed on bogus cases. Their family members are punished. The entire population of Balochistan is facing the wrath of the military for its failure.

Since 31 January, the security forces have been attacking civilian populations in different regions of Balochistan.

We will bring you updates from the ground. Please follow this fact sheet, which we will update with every progress.

Total Number of casualties,  including  Enforced Disappearances:

• Targeted & Indiscriminate Killings: 31
• Enforced Disappearances: 158+
• Disappeared and later killed: 8
• Injuries: 25
• Released: 1

Districts affected the most:

Quetta, Gwadar, Nushki, Kech, Khuzdar, ….

Brief notes on the Incidents:

February 01:

• Security forces reportedly carried out an assault on a residential compound housing laborers, leaving two families from the district Khuzdar severely affected. The operation resulted in the deaths of 12 people, including women and children, and left nearly 10 others injured. Among the deceased were Noor Muhammad Faqeer Zehri, son of Mulla Jaorak, his son Ghulam Yaseen, and one additional male victim. The attack also claimed the lives of four women and five children, while the majority of those wounded were women and children.
• In Turbat, forces shelled the civilian neighbourhood of Pullabad with mortars, resulting in the death of 15-year-old Anas Baloch, son of Ibrahim. The shelling also left a five-year-old child and two women critically wounded. After the attack, forces reportedly proceeded to destroy residential homes in the locality.

• A child was killed in a drone strike in the Nushki district, Balochistan. Local sources reported that the incident took place in the Killi Jamaldini area, where a house was targeted. The child has been identified as Deedag, son of Abdul Manan. According to reports, on February 1, Pakistani forces carried out more than 20 drone strikes, accompanied by firing and shelling from helicopters.

• Pakistani forces opened fire on a passenger vehicle near Cadet College in the Nushki area of Balochistan, resulting in the killing of ten people travelling in the vehicle. The bodies were taken into custody by local authorities and shifted to a hospital. The victims have not yet been identified.
• Pakistani forces fired on civilian areas in Turbat, with rockets launched from a forces’ camp reportedly landing directly in populated neighbourhoods, injuring several people. In incidents across different areas, 11 individuals, including three women and three children, were taken to the hospital, while three critically injured patients were shifted to Karachi for further treatment, and the rest are receiving care at Turbat Teaching Hospital.
• Personnel of the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) forcibly disappeared Umair Baloch, a 20-year-old student and son of Abdul Rauf, on 1 February 2026. They abducted him at around 4:00 p.m. from the Burma Hotel near Munir Ahmed Chowk, Quetta. He was a resident of Kili Qambrani, Quetta.
• Pakistani forces extrajudicially killed Karim Jan, son of Malang, also known as Jasim, in Balgater, Kech, on 1 February 2026, after weeks of unlawful detention. He had earlier been abducted from Turbat Plus Market on 2 January 2026, when security personnel forcibly disappeared him from public view.

February 02:

• In a pre-dawn operation on 2 February, around 3:30 a.m., forces carried out coordinated raids on several residences in Hub Chowki, Balochistan, resulting in the enforced disappearance of retired Deputy Commissioner Mohammad Bakhsh Sajidi, his brother Naeem Sajidi, and Engineer Rafeeq Baloch, who previously served as Chief of Sui Gas Balochistan. Mohammad Bakhsh Sajidi is the father of Dr. Naseem Baloch, Chairman of the Baloch National Movement, while Naeem Sajidi and Engineer Rafeeq Baloch are his uncles.
• A 25-year-old resident of Suhrabi Ward in the coastal city of Gwadar, Miran, son of Asghar, was forcibly disappeared by Pakistani forces around 9:30 in the morning. Miran was a fisherman by profession.
• Security forces forcibly disappeared Yasir Arfat, a resident of Miani Kalat, Mashkay (Awaran District), while he was travelling from Hub Chowki to Karachi. He was  a 7th-semester student at Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan
• Khuda Bakhsh, an 18-year-old student, son of Dilwash and a resident of Gaddani, Hub Chowki, was abducted from Karachi at around 10:00 a.m. by Military Intelligence (MI).
• CTD personnel abducted Ilyas Baloch, a student and son of Mir Sultan Mullazai, from his home in Killi Ghazgi, Mastung, at around 2:00 a.m. He is a resident of Killi Ghazgi, Mastung.

February 03:

• On 3 February 2026, the mutilated body of Jasim Jan, 28, a laborer from Panjgur, was found in Washbood. He had been forcibly disappeared on 21 January 2026 after being abducted from his hometown by members of a state-backed death squad, and remained missing until his killing.
• An ambulance from Nushki Teaching Hospital was fired upon by the forces, severely injuring the driver, Hashmat Ali. Earlier, another ambulance was targeted near Cadet College Nushki, where the driver was shot and killed on the spot.
  Hassan Basri, a resident of Nushki and the brother of prominent Brahvi singer Hussain Naseer, was shot dead by security forces.

• Security forces took a 15-year-old student Hasnain Baloch, son of Babul Jan, into custody and disappeared him. He was detained from Killi Asgharabad, Sariab Customs area, Quetta.
  Tariq Hussain, son of Muhammad Sharif Bugti and a resident of the Pat Feeder area of Dera Bugti, was forcibly disappeared from Shaikh Zayed Hospital, Larkana, where he had gone for his children’s medical treatment. He was reportedly taken by personnel of ISI.
• Babu Atta Muhammad Badini, a 60-year-old resident of Killi Qazi Abad, Nushki district, Balochistan, was killed when Pakistani forces opened fire in the area.
• FC personnel abducted Usman Baloch, 20, son of Mehboob, a shopkeeper, from his shop on Dasht Mastung Road, Mastung

February 04:

• A minor, Shahzad Ahmad, son of Zafar Ahmed, was reported killed in firing by forces in Qaziabad, Nushki.
  Forces abducted Bakshi Baloch, a resident of Hoshap Talsar, from Shapuk, killed him in custody, and later dumped his body.
• Balach Baloch, son of Khalid and a resident of Momin Mohalla, Turbat, was shot dead in a targeted attack at the Singanisar graveyard while offering Fatiha on the first anniversary of Baloch scholar Allah Dad Wahid. Local sources stated that unidentified armed motorcyclists linked to a state-backed “death squad” carried out the attack and fled the scene. Balach had previously been forcibly disappeared twice by the Pakistan Army and had survived at least two earlier assassination attempts prior to his killing.
• Kareem Bakhsh Shah, 28, son of Rafiq Shah, and a resident of Rudhon, Tump, was shot dead by the Frontier Corps (FC) in Gwadar.
• Zahid, son of Abdul Rahman, a 26-year-old fisherman and resident of Gowatri Bazar, Jiwani, Gwadar, was forcibly abducted from his home at around 1:00 AM. According to local sources, the abduction was carried out by personnel of the Frontier Corps (FC) and Military Intelligence (MI).

February 05:

• Asadullah, a 25-year-old BS student at the University of Balochistan and son of Zafarullah Kurd, was abducted by Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) personnel in plain clothes from the Brewery Road area of Quetta on the night between Wednesday and Thursday, according to family sources.
• Security forces have reportedly detained more than one hundred individuals during operations carried out in various areas of Quetta and transferred them to undisclosed locations. Meanwhile, the provincial government has claimed that around one hundred ‘suspected persons’ were arrested and that small and large weapons were recovered from several houses; however, no evidence was provided to the media to substantiate these claims.
  Statements by State Officials and the BLA. 
• Wahid, son of Muhammad Karim, a resident of Kotu in Jhao district, Awaran, was abducted by FC personnel in a late-night raid on his house. The operation reportedly involved the destruction of household property and the looting of valuables before he was taken away.

February 06:

• Siraj, son of Ghafoor, a 20-year-old student and resident of Khosar Bazar, Jiwani, Gwadar, was forcibly abducted from his home at around 10:00 PM. According to local sources, the abduction was carried out by personnel of the FC and MI. He was released on 11 February.
• Authorities in Nushki imposed a curfew from 5:00 PM to 9:00 AM.
• Muhammad Fareed Baloch (20), a student and son of Muhammad Anwar Baloch, was extrajudicially killed on 6 February, and his body was later dumped in the Jangle area of Killi Safar Ali, Duki. FC and CTD personnel had abducted him on 4 June 2025 from his home, after which he was held in illegal custody and subjected to enforced disappearance for months. His father, Muhammad Anwar Baloch, a farmer, had also been abducted on the same day from a mosque near their home and was later extrajudicially killed on 4 January 2026.
• FC personnel abducted Zafar Ullah, 18, son of Umar Shah and a driver from Qazi Abad, Nushki
• FC personnel abducted Mahmood, 24, son of Haji Noor Ahmed and a resident of Killi Badal Karez, Nushki, from his home at around 10:00 p.m.
• FC personnel abducted Mahmood, 24, son of Haji Noor Ahmed and a resident of Killi Badal Karez, Noshki, from his home at around 10:00 p.m.

February 07:

• Pazeer Baloch (32), son of Muhammad Amin and a resident of Washbood in Panjgur, was extrajudicially killed after months of enforced disappearance. He had been abducted in November 2025 from his residence, allegedly by state-backed death squads, and held in illegal custody before his killing.
• Nadil Baloch, son of Khair Mohammad and a labourer from Kuhado Jhao, was forcibly disappeared during a house raid by forces in Daro Hotel, Hub Chowki. He had previously been abducted in 2019 and detained until 2021, and continued to face harassment.
• Mir Balach, son of Ghulam Jan from Faqir Colony, Karachi, was taken into custody at Karachi Airport under the pretext of visa verification after arriving from Dubai and subsequently went missing. His family said he had returned home to get married and spend the holidays, and when they inquired with airport authorities, they denied having any information about him.

February 08:

• Personnel of the CTD and FC abducted Sohrab Baloch, a 33-year-old laborer and son of Muhammad Amin, from Baloch Colony, Hub Chowki, at around 2:00 p.m. He is a resident of Dazin, Tump, and Kech.
• A mutilated body was found in Kochag, Buleda, on 8 February 2026, identified as Nisar, son of Adena and a resident of Alandoor, Buleda. He was reportedly forcibly disappeared by a death squad and killed the same day.

February 09:

• Shehroz Baloch, a 22-year-old auto mechanic, son of Obaid Ullah and a resident of Lore Karez Sariab, Quetta, was abducted from his home at around 1:00 a.m. The abduction was carried out by personnel of the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD). 
• FC personnel abducted Taimoor, 26, son of Imam Bakhsh, and Murtaza, 31, son of Yahya. Both are farmers from Marap, Surab. They were taken together at around 5:00 p.m. from Mall FC Choki on Main RCD Road in Surab.
• FC and MI personnel forcibly disappeared Ghalib, son of Haji Badal, during a house raid in the Allangi area of Mashkay, Awaran. He was a resident of Gajjar in Mashkay and a student in Quetta who had returned to his hometown to attend a relative’s wedding.
• Murad Bakhsh, son of Mahmood Baloch, and his two sons, Amjid Baloch and Lateef Baloch, were forcibly disappeared by security forces during a house raid in Awaran on 9 February. The family had previously been forced to relocate from their native village, Doliji in Jhao.

February 10:

• MI personnel forcibly disappeared Yasir Lehri, a 26-year-old police constable and son of Abdullah Lehri. He was a resident of Khardan, Kalat, and abducted from Mughalzai Main RCD Road at around 6:30 p.m.
• Under orders from security forces, citizens arriving from Balochistan have been denied hotel accommodation in Karachi. Reports indicate that people from remote areas of Balochistan have been refused rooms at multiple hotels and lodging facilities across the city.
• Following a week of militant attacks, security forces imposed a curfew in Nushki city, ordering shops to remain closed and confining residents to their homes. They entered the city with tanks and armored vehicles and began demolishing houses. Among the homes destroyed was the ancestral house of Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) leader Bashir Zeb in the Ahmadwal area, and another house in Qaziabad, reportedly vacant since 2011, which belonged to Haji Abdul Samad, who reportedly died in 2009.

February 11:

• Abdul Haq, 21, son of Ghulam Nabi, and Kamram Baloch, 22, son of Haji Muhammad Hassan, both students and residents of Killi Jamal Abad, Nushki, were abducted during a house raid at around 4:30 p.m. by FC, MI, and CTD personnel. 

February 12:

• Kamal Dad, son of Haji Dad Muhammad, a 25-year-old driver from Sholeeg Dasht, was targeted and killed by a state-backed death squad in Kontani, Gwadar. He had been forcibly disappeared in 2025 and released after one month of illegal detention. Following his release, he survived an earlier assassination attempt in Fakir Colony, where he sustained injuries.
• Shah Zaman, 18, and his brother Naseer Ahmed, 24, both students and sons of Abdullah from Killi Jamal Abad, Nushki, were abducted from their home by FC, MI, and CTD personnel.
• Agha Shahid Ali and Agha Lal Shah were taken into custody by security forces in Quetta and transferred to an unknown location. Both are nephews of Agha Muhammad Shah, vice president of the National Party from Tehsil Saryab
• Forces continue raids and demolishing houses in Nushki, destroying the guesthouses of Haji Bahadur Khan Mengal, BNP central leader and Central Executive Committee member, and Mir Muhammad Ali Khan Mengal, current District Chairman. These actions have raised serious concerns among local civilians.

February 13:

• Noor Jan, son of Laku and a resident of Chibbi in the Jaho area of Awaran district, was extrajudicially killed by the forces, and his body was handed over to his family on 13 February at a military camp in Gajjar Mashkay. He had been forcibly disappeared from his home on 30 September 2025. 
• State-backed death squad members abducted Zulfiqar, 23, son of Hameed and a resident of Tasp, Panjgur, from Tasp Bazar, Panjgur, at around 7:00 p.m.
• Military forces demolished the house of Noor Bakhsh Kalmati in Panwan, a coastal area of Gwadar, using heavy machinery. The family reported that the operation continued until around 3 a.m., with a large number of Pakistani forces present. They added that Tariq Kalmati, a family member, had been forcibly disappeared last year and later recovered, and that other relatives have also been detained or disappeared in separate incidents.

February 14:

• Nawab Abdullah, an FSc student, was extrajudicially killed by FC personnel and state-backed death squads, and his body was dumped in Washbodh, Panjgur. He had been forcibly taken from his home on 29 May 2025 in front of his mother and sisters.
• Security forces carried out house-to-house searches in Nushki, during which at least twenty-two people were taken into custody and transferred to unknown locations. The operations targeted residents in Killi Mengal and Qadirabad, where multiple homes were reportedly broken into, vandalised, and occupants beaten. The identities of those forcibly disappeared are not yet confirmed, as the area remains under siege by the forces.

Statements by State Officials and the BLA

February 01:

• Balochistan Chief Minister Sarfaraz Bugti stated on television that the situation in Balochistan is not a political issue and should be dealt with solely through military means. He warned that the families of militants would face collective punishment if they failed to inform the authorities about the involvement of their relatives in separatist groups. He also stated that 140 militants had been killed in the operation.

February 02:

• Defence Minister Khawaja Asif said on Monday that Pakistan needed to deploy large numbers of troops in Balochistan because of the province’s vast geography amid the serious security situation and recent spate of attacks.
• The Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) released an infographic claiming it had conducted coordinated attacks across 16 cities in Balochistan. According to the group, it carried out 64 operations targeting state and security installations within 69 hours, resulting in the deaths of 220 security personnel, the capture of 17, and the loss of 27 of its own fighters. The BLA has continuously shared videos of clashes, as well as images and details of its deceased fighters, on social media. In contrast, government officials claim that around 150 militants have been killed so far. On February 1, Sarfaraz Bugti stated that the operation had been successfully thwarted by security forces and that the situation had returned to normal. However, the BLA asserts that, on the fifth day of the operation, its fighters maintain control over many areas, including Nushki city.

February 05:

• The Pakistan Army’s media wing, ISPR, has claimed that the operation in Balochistan concluded on the sixth day with the killing of 216 militants without providing details to substantiate the claims.  However, the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) has rejected these claims, stating that the attacks are still ongoing. 

February 06:

• BLA announced the end of its operations, claiming 76 attacks in 14 cities, the deaths of 362 security personnel, and the loss of 93 of its own fighters.