Since then he has committed numerous attacks on Iranian soilmostly in this province adjacent to Pakistan and Afghanistan, against the country’s security forces, but also against prosecutors and other senior officials.
Yeish al Adl seeks the independence of Sistan and Balochistan, where the Baluchi ethnic minority lives, most of whom are prosecuting. the Sunni branch of Islam versus the country’s official Shiism.
The group operates on the porous border with Pakistan, a country that Tehran says does not do enough to stop their activities.
One of his last attacks was against a police station in the city of Rask, in Sistan and Balochistan, where eleven police officers died.
That attack was one of the reasons given by Iran for attacking Jeish al Adl positions in Pakistani territory on Tuesday.triggering the current diplomatic crisis between both countries.
Balochistan Liberation Army
He Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA)founded in 2000, is the most prominent of a number of separatist groups active in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan.
The insurgent formation has claimed responsibility for multiple attacks against security forces, members of the Government and foreign workers, especially against the extensive Chinese community present in the region.
The group, banned by Islamabad since 2006, and considered terrorist by the United States since 2019, demands greater autonomy for Balochistanthe largest province in the country but the smallest in terms of population, while denouncing unfair exploitation of its natural resources by Islamabad.
In addition to the attacks against the Pakistani security forces, which he demands to withdraw from the region, The BLA intensified its attacks against Chinese citizens and institutions in the country since the launch of the more than $60 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) in 2013.
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So, The group attacked the Chinese consulate in the city of Karachi in November 2018.in an assault that claimed the lives of seven people, including the three attackers, and has carried out selective attacks against the Chinese population in the country.
The BLA also claimed responsibility for an attack on the Pakistan Stock Exchange building in 2020.that caused the death of four people, and in April 2022 he claimed responsibility for a suicide attack in Karachi in which three Chinese teachers and their Pakistani driver died.
The group is currently managed by Bashir Zaibabout whom little information is known, and succeeded Aslam Baluch in the position, after he died in a suicide attack allegedly linked to Pakistani intelligence on December 25, 2018 in the Afghan province of Kandahar.
Baloch Liberation Front
The Baloch Liberation Front (BLF)was formed in the 1960s and re-emerged in 2004 after Allah Nazar, who until then headed a student organization, assumed leadership.
The group resurfaced that year in the public eye. when he claimed responsibility for an attack that killed three Chinese workers who were working on a Pakistani mega development project in Balochistan.
Since then, the group has taken responsibility for attacks against civilianspoliticians, government officials and military personnel.
In 2015, gunmen killed 20 construction workers in Balochistan after identifying them as non-locals, in an incident claimed by the BLF.
In January 2022, another attack by this formation against a Pakistani Army post in the Kech district It claimed the lives of ten soldiers.