Five labourers from Sindh were lined up and shot in the head in Nushki.
Days earlier, a local imam, his wife, and three children were murdered inside their home.
These were not collateral deaths. They were executions. And together, they expose an uncomfortable truth that can no longer be ignored: the Balochistan Liberation Army is not fighting a war against the state — it is waging terror against civilians.
The bodies of five labourers from Sindh were recovered during a security forces clearance operation in Balochistan’s Nushki district. They had been lined up and shot in the head.
They were poor, unarmed, and innocent.
This discovery came as counter terrorism operations were underway across the province, following a wave of violence in which multiple attacks were thwarted. But for these five men, they were out of luck.
Day earlier, another family had already been wiped out.
On February 1, terrorists belonging to the banned Balochistan Liberation Army stormed the home of a local imam and schoolteacher, Mufti Amshad Ali, killing him, his wife, and their three children. That attack, like the killings in Nushki, targeted civilians inside their own spaces — homes and workplaces.
Together, these stories expose a single, undeniable reality: BLA terrorism is not targeting the state. It is targeting civilians — workers, teachers, families — and tearing apart the social fabric from its weakest points.
Five Labourers Who Came Only to Work
The five men killed in Nushki had travelled from Sindh with one hope: that hard labour might help their families survive. According to officials, their bodies were found on 7 February 2026 in different areas during a clearance operation.
They were identified as:
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Irshad Ahmed, son of Yar Muhammad, from Khairpur
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Ghulam Abbas, son of Muhammad Murad
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Shehzad, son of Faiz Muhammad
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Sajjad, son of Faiz Muhammad
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Kamran, son of Allah Diwaya, residents of Ghotki
All belonged to Sindh’s Ghotki district. Four of them were from the same extended family. Their ages ranged between 17 and 20. None were married.
They were not militants. They were not political workers. They were labourers at a construction site, working on a degree college building in Nushki — infrastructure meant for local students.
“We Were Poor, So We Had to Send Them Away”
Rafiq Ahmed, a relative of the victims, told the BBC that poverty had shaped every decision the family made.
Sajjad had studied up to the fourth grade. Shehzad up to the fifth. The others never went to school at all — not because they didn’t want to, but because poverty left no room for education.
“We were poor,” Rafiq Ahmed said. “We could not educate them. At a young age, we had to send them away so they could earn money and help support the family.”
Three months earlier, the boys had gone to Balochistan with a contractor from Sindh. Their journey took them first to Hoshab, then Quetta, and finally Nushki, where they began work as daily-wage labourers.
On 31 January, after an attack in the area, the families began calling. The phones rang unanswered. Again and again, the calls failed. Alarmed, they contacted the contractor. That is when they were told the truth: the boys had been killed.
Executed, Then Forgotten
During the clearance operation, police found that the labourers had been lined up and executed, shot in the head. Their bodies were later sent back to Sindh on the instructions of the Chief Minister of Balochistan. Ambulances carrying their remains were dispatched — returning sons to homes that would never recover.
Yet even as families mourned, something else became painfully clear.
Some voices remained silent over these deaths. Over these labourers. Over these broken homes. But after every such tragedy, the same narratives are repeated — loudly and selectively — while the human cost is ignored.
Another Civilian Home Destroyed
Just days before the labourers were executed, another civilian family had already been erased.
On February 1, BLA terrorists attacked the home of Mufti Amshad Ali, a local imam and schoolteacher. He was killed along with his wife and three children.
Mufti Amshad Ali was not part of any security apparatus. He was not involved in politics. He taught children and led prayers. His family lived quietly.
They were killed inside their home.
A Pattern That Cannot Be Denied
In recent acts of terrorism, the Balochistan Liberation Army has killed at least 31 civilians, including labourers, religious figures, women, and children. It has targeted workers and infrastructure — roads, construction sites, and public projects — meant not for outsiders, but for local communities.
This is not accidental. It is systematic.
The United States has designated the Balochistan Liberation Army as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) precisely because its violence targets civilians to spread fear.
Labourers are killed because they are vulnerable.
Teachers are killed because they represent community life.
Families are killed because fear travels faster than bullets.
Who Pays the Price?
The labourers came to Nushki to earn bread.
The imam stayed home to teach and preach.
Neither group carried weapons. Neither group posed a threat.
Yet both were killed.
If workers, civilians, children, and families are being executed, then the claim of “resistance” collapses under its own weight. A movement that feeds on the blood of the poorest is not fighting injustice — it is manufacturing terror.
And as long as these stories are treated as footnotes rather than warnings, the question will remain unanswered:
