On July 10, 2025, a familiar road in Balochistan once again became the site of unimaginable horror. Along National Highway N-70, between Loralai and Musakhel, two passenger buses traveling from Quetta to Lahore were stopped by armed men at a makeshift checkpoint. These were not security officials. They were militants from the Baloch Liberation Army—a banned terrorist organization backed by India’s intelligence agency, RAW.
What followed was a cold and calculated act of ethnic targeting. The militants boarded the buses and began checking passengers’ identity cards. Those whose IDs showed “Punjab” as their place of residence were forcibly dragged off the buses. Moments later, gunshots were heard echoing through the remote hills.
Word spread quickly. Nine passengers had been executed — their only crime: being Punjabi. Among the victims were Usman Toor and Jabir Toor, two brothers from Dunyapur. They were traveling to attend their father’s funeral. Their surviving brother, Sabir Toor, later appeared on social media, his voice shaking with grief, saying, “My brothers left Quetta this morning… we haven’t heard from them since.” His video wasn’t just a plea for answers. It was a cry for justice — a cry that pierced the conscience of a nation.
The BLA, once an insurgent group fighting the state, has now resorted to ethnic cleansing. It is no longer about rebellion or rights — it is about hatred. Innocent civilians are now targets simply for belonging to a certain province. These are not acts of resistance. These are war crimes.
Behind these atrocities stands India. Through RAW, it is accused of funding, arming, training, and providing media backing to the BLA and similar groups. In a recent statement, DG ISPR Lt. Gen. Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said, “India is facilitating terrorist organizations to create unrest in Balochistan. The BLA is acting on a foreign agenda aimed at breaking Pakistan from within.”
This attack is not an isolated event. On April 12, 2024, near Noshki, nine Punjabis were abducted from a bus and later found murdered. On August 26, 2024, in Musakhel, 23 Punjabi laborers were slaughtered, their vehicles torched. In March 2025, six non-Baloch individuals were identified and executed in Ormara. The pattern is undeniable. The ideology is clear. The goal is division through terror.
When BLA failed to defeat the state militarily, they turned their weapons on unarmed civilians — on travelers, workers, and common men with no role in any conflict. The message is chilling: in this war, your name, your language, your ID card might seal your fate.
This is not just a series of attacks on Punjabis. This is an attack on all of Pakistan. It is an attack on humanity itself. If this hatred continues unchallenged, if we remain divided or indifferent, then tomorrow it could be any one of us.
Pakistan is not the land of one ethnicity, one language, or one province. It belongs to all — Punjabis, Baloch, Pashtuns, Sindhis, and beyond. And today, more than ever, we must stand together. Not just in grief, but in unity. Not just in outrage, but in action. Because this fight — against terrorism, against hatred, against the foreign agendas that seek to break us — is a fight we must win.
