Noshki, Balochistan — The night of January 31, 2026 ended life for an entire family in Noshki, when armed men belonging to the banned Balochistan Liberation Army stormed the home of religious preacher and schoolteacher Mufti Amshad Ali.
They knew there were women and children inside.This was not an operation.
It was a targeted killing.
As BLA’s terrorists surrounded the house, Mufti Amshad Ali understood that surrender meant certain death. In a final, desperate act of fatherhood, he hid his four-year-old son inside a briefcase. He told him not to speak, not to cry — no matter what he heard. Silence, he hoped, might save his child.
Then he stepped outside.
Mufti Amshad Ali was killed.
His wife was killed.
Their children were killed — Aneeqa, just three years old, and teenage sons Umair (16) and Talha (14).
When the house was emptied of life, the terrorists left.
Inside, the child remained trapped — locked inside the briefcase for nearly two days. He lay there dehydrated, shaking, listening to the silence of a home that had been destroyed. When he was finally found alive, he was deeply traumatised. Family members say the child has stopped speaking. They fear he may never return to a normal life.
The family learned of the massacre on February 1, when a phone call reached their home in Karak district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. A caller from Noshki told Mufti Amshad Ali’s father that a khatib from their area had been martyred in a BLA attack.
“Our father replied that there was only one khatib from our area posted in Noshki,” said the victim’s brother, Mohammad Nasir. “And that was my son.”
Further confirmation revealed the full horror: Mufti Amshad Ali, his wife, and three children had been killed. Another daughter survived with injuries and is currently undergoing treatment in Quetta.
Family members describe Mufti Amshad Ali as a soft-spoken preacher and schoolteacher with no political involvement — a man who had moved to Noshki only to teach and serve his community.
In places like Noshki, these stories rarely reach national debates. But behind every statistic is a house that went silent, a child who stopped speaking, and a family erased — not in war, but in terror and BLA’s atrocities.
