Another Insurgency Gains In Pakistan

Demonstrators in Karachi, Pakistan, marched in April to denounce the killings of three local politicians from Baluchistan Province, deaths that some attribute to Pakistani intelligence agencies. Asif Hassan/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

From The New York Times:

TURBAT, Pakistan — Three local political leaders were seized from a small legal office here in April, handcuffed, blindfolded and hustled into a waiting pickup truck in front of their lawyer and neighboring shopkeepers. Their bodies, riddled with bullets and badly decomposed in the scorching heat, were found in a date palm grove five days later.

Local residents are convinced that the killings were the work of the Pakistani intelligence agencies, and the deaths have provided a new spark for revolt across Baluchistan, a vast and restless province in Pakistan’s southwest where the government faces yet another insurgency.

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My Comment: This low level insurgency has been going on for years in this part of Pakistan .... where the killing of soldiers has been occurring on a regular basis. But in typical Pakistan ISIS/Army fashion .... in retaliation they are making a bad situation even worse.