QUETTA-Nawabzada Balach Marri, the Baloch guerilla commander was killed along with some of his colleagues in a military assault in an undisclosed location, claimed the banned Baloch Liberation Army here on Wednesday.
His brother Nawabzada Gazain Marri who is under ground also confirmed the killing of his brother while talking to a group of newsmen on Wednesday night.
Balach Marri, 44, has been commanding his resistance tribesmen in Kohlu for the last few years. He went to Afghanistan after the military drive in Tratani mountains of Kohlu district in which Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti was killed on August 26, 2006. Beeberg Baloch, the spokesman of the banned BLA first informed the newsmen through satellite phone from an unknown location in Quetta Press Club about the killing of Balach Marri in drive by security forces.
He said that he was unable to disclose the location of this attack and the exact number of his colleagues who died or were injured in the action. Nawabzada Gazain Marri, the former Provincial Minister and elder brother of Balach told a group of journalists that he also received the news of the killing of his brother and some of his fighters, but he was not informed about the location for security reasons.
A report claimed that Balach Marri was killed in Sarlath area, the no man’s land at Pak-Afghan border near Naushki district in an attack by Pakistani security forces.
However,
another report claimed that Balach was travelling in a convoy of vehicles in Afghan province of Helmund which came under air attack of NATO forces suspecting his convoy of Taliban. But both reports could not be confirmed either on govt level or by his family members.
Balach Marri got elected as member of the Provincial Assembly while contesting from his home town Kohlu in absentia in 2002 elections.Due to murder cases alongwith his brothers, he obtained interim bail from Sindh High Court to take oath as MPA. He attended just two sessions before going underground after his interim bail was not confirmed by the court.He remained in Kohlu commanding the tribesmen and had frequently been travelling to Dera Bugti alongwith his hundreds of armed guards.He alongwith his companions shifted to mountains after military drive started in Dera Bugti and Kohlu in the wake of rocket attacks on President General Pervez Musharraf during his visit to Kohlu on December, 12, 2005. Later he and Nawabzada Brahamdgah Bugti, the grand son of Nawab Bugti shifted to neighbouring Afghanistan in the wake of killing of Baloch leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti.Nawabzada Balach Marri, the son of Baloch Marxist leader Nawab Khair Baksh Marri was the third among six brothers.
He was born in Quetta and got his schooling from St Francis school. He later went to Kabul alongwith his family in 1980s and then Moscow to get his Masters degree in Electronic Engineering.
Meanwhile, four persons including an Inspector of Intelligence Bureau and a police constable were killed while scores were injured in day-long rioting and violence in the provincial capital and other towns of Balochistan.
Police rounded up 30 persons in the provincial capital while incidents of firing, hand grenade attack, damage to private and public property and attacks were reported on various installations through out the province.
The City Nazim announced to close all schools, colleges and other educational institutions in Quetta on Thursday in the wake of tension prevailing in the province. The news of killing of Baloch guerilla commander Nawabzada Balach Marri in a military drive spread like jungle fire in the whole province.
The Baloch youth took to the streets and started throwing stones on the vehicles and damaging public property. Some of them opened fire in the air to create terror in the provincial capital.
A group of three people belonging to Punjabi speaking community was attacked by an armed group in Kalat street Hudda, injuring them seriously. They were rushed to hospital but all succumbed to their injuries. The names of the deceased are Liaquat Ali, an IB inspector, Munir Raza, a bank employee and Ishaq Awan, the owner of a bakery.
In another incident, a group of armed persons opened fire on a police mobile vehicle near Brewry police station, injuring five cops including two officers. Later one of the cop succumbed to his injuries in the hospital. The SHO Khalid Yousaf and ASI Nasir Ahmad of Brewry police station also were among the injured.Meanwhile, unknown motorcyclists threw a hand-grenade at a barber shop on Moti Ram Road that exploded with a heavy bang. However, nobody was injured in the attack as when the grenade was lobbed in the shop, the owner and workers jumped out of the shop.
The central office of Balochistan-Punjabi Etahad was also set ablaze by unknown persons that reduced all the office furniture and record to ashes. The enraged crowd in the evening damaged two vehicles and put an ambulance of Bolan Medical Complex on fire on main Brewry road.
The protesters in Sariab, Killi Qambarani and Subzal also damaged 4 vehicles and rickshaws by throwing stones. At a number of places in the provincial capital there was hide and seek between police and protesters. Police fired dozens of tear gas shells to disperse the crowd.Unknown persons also ransacked govt education office and damaged the vehicle parked there.
Two police constables received injuries in a bomb blast near WAPDA grid station on main Sariab road. The condition of both injured was out of danger. The reports from the interior of the province say that four bomb explosions took place in the town of Mastung creating terror.
The telephone system was damaged in the blast. However, nobody was injured in the blasts. Explosions also took place in Wadh and Machh towns, but caused no damage. Unknown persons also threw a hand grenade in the house of a govt employee Mohammad Suleman, a Punjabi speaking person in Machh town that landed in the courtyard of the house, but all the occupants of the house remained unhurt. The protesters attacked a bank in Khuzdar town and broke its window panes and also damaged a govt vehicle.
In Naushki, the people barged into a local office and burnt and ransacked it. Two persons were injured in a blast in Naushki. The reports of damaging the govt properties in Turbat and Panjgur were also received.
The local tribesmen blew up a rail track in Bolan area and two power pylons in Dera Bugti causing suspension of rail service and power supply. The people closed their shops in a number of towns and burnt tyres by closing the roads and highways.
Jun 23, 2018
Pakistani security agencies after us even outside
#Balochistan; Today a vehicle of
#BalochRefugees blown up at a service station in Spin Boldak, two afghan citizens, employees of the station were killed. While
#Baloch refugees remain safe.
#HumanRights #Afghanistan
TIMES NOW
@TimesNow
· Jun 6, 2017
Bugti refugees camp in Afghanistan has been attacked, 2 children among 3 were killed, 8 including women have been wounded
Pakistani Taliban Commander Reportedly Killed In Afghanistan
December 30, 2019
Afghan government officials met with refugees from Waziristan in the Gulan camp on December 4.
A key commander of the Pakistani Taliban, known as Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP), has been shot dead at a refugee camp in southeastern Afghanistan, a Pakistani security source and a tribal elder have told RFE/RL.
A security official in the South Waziristan tribal district, in northwestern Pakistan, who requested anonymity said Qari Saifullah Mehsud was killed in his residence in the Gulan refugee camp overnight on December 28-29.
Daud Mehsud, a tribal elder at the camp, told RFE/RL on December 30 that the two gunmen had been "guests" at the TTP commander's home for several days before they killed him and fled.
A provincial police spokesman, Haider Adil, confirmed a killing but did not confirm the identity of the victim. He said a "criminal" case had been launched.
Mehsud was buried in the Gurbaz district of Khost Province at around 3 p.m. local time on December 29, the tribal elder added.
The TTP has not issued any statement.
Qari Saifullah Mehsud had fled the Pakistani military offensive in North Waziristan in 2014.
He had worked as a TTP spokesman in Kurram tribal district as well.