ISLAMABAD: The United States reaffirms its support for Pakistan after deadly separatist attacks that killed over 50 people in the southwestern Balochistan province last week, the State Department said on Friday.
Mineral-rich Balochistan, which borders Iran and Afghanistan, is the site of a decades-long insurgency waged by Baloch separatist groups who often attack security forces, foreigners and non-local Pakistanis and kidnap government officials.
The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), which the US has designated as a “terrorist organization,” claimed responsibility for the coordinated attacks in multiple districts across Balochistan last Saturday in one of the deadliest flare-ups in the region in recent years.
“We stand steadfast with Pakistan in the wake of recent militant attacks in Balochistan,” the State Department’s Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs (SCA) said on X.
“The Balochistan Liberation Army remains a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, and we support efforts to hold the perpetrators of these horrific attacks accountable.”
