People might like it or not but Baloch people , especially the youth studying in universities and collages of Pakistan must be put under surveillance .. The dude that blew himself up was educated and was on twitter doing all sorts of propaganda... An undeclared system of racial profiling must be introduced against this particular ethnicity if peace is to be desired. We can't put the future of Pakistan at risk due to false and perceived victimhood of that one particular ethnicity..
Antagonizing the entire population of an area undermines the effort. People stop cooperating if they know they are being profiled just based on their ethnicity. Behavior analysis of suspect needs to be learned by the local police, learning the skills used to counter lone wolf attacks is also key. There are allot of police forces around the world Pakistan should be training with to get a better understanding, when deciding how to deal with the threat.
the other half has to be development projects that give jobs to locals and bring the areas up to the national standard. People can not be made to feel they are second class citizens in their own country. We can’t afford to slip into that kind of temptation, to come down hard on the entire population, because it’s wrong and because it will make the problem worse. Just look at the backlash in places like the US to this kind of methods; Black Lives Matter protests.
the key are the police that work the local areas day in and day out. They need to keep an eye on any suspicious activities developing in their area and work that information up the chain of command. Equally upper echelons need to effectively communicate with local police and work to nab potential threats based on intelligence; such as stockpiles of weapons, explosives, money and/or electronics that can be used in an attack.
electronic surveillance, where it should be done needs to be followed up with human investigations, because falsely declare someone a threat undermines the whole effort and could radicalize an innocent person.
that’s why a lot of this is about police work, and the Pakistani police needs the funding and training to become a first rate police force, one that can go anywhere and everywhere, and effectively nip the threat in the bud, in its AOR if we are to end this scourge.