Unconfirmed reports of BLF chief Allah Nazar being killed: Bugti

QUETTA: Allah Nazar Baloch, the chief of banned militant outfit Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF), has been killed in an operation by security forces, provincial Home Minister Mir Sarfaraz Bugti said on Tuesday quoting unconfirmed reports.

"According to unconfirmed reports, the head of the Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF) Allah Nazar Baloch has been killed in one of our operations. There has been no evidence of him being alive ever since Frontier Corps carried out some operations," Bugti told a press conference.

“There has been no human intelligence or proof of him being alive since then, which is why I say that there are unconfirmed reports of his death,” he said.

Speaking at the press conference, the provincial home minister said that seven terrorists with links to Indian intelligence agency intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) were also arrested when Frontier Corps (FC) personnel with the help of intelligence agencies carried out an operation in Dalbandin district.

Security personnel also took control of a telecommunications center being used by the terrorists for their activities, he said.

The telecoms center was set up in the hills and was tapping the PTCL V-Wireless network to communicate over a distance of more 150 kilometres both inside and across the border, he said.

The numbers from the telecom center were being used by members of banned militant outfits, Indian and Afghan intelligence agencies, Afghan Taliban, Al-Qaeda, Baloch separatists groups, Jundallah, and weapons and narcotics smugglers.

They were using the numbers – Afghan, Indian, and European – from the telecoms center to communicate with their handlers and to carry out terrorist activities in Balochistan and across Pakistan, said the provincial home minister.

Bugti said that weapons were also recovered from the arrested militants, who were currently being interrogated for further information.