Eight Pakistani workers were tragically killed by BLA in Iran’s Sistan-Baluchestan province on Saturday, according to officials. The incident occurred in the early hours in a workshop located in a village of the Meharistan district.
The Pakistani workers, all hailing from Bahawalpur in southern Punjab, were employed at a car repair workshop where they carried out denting, polishing, painting, and other vehicle repair tasks. Reports indicate that the attackers entered the workshop during the night, tied up the victims’ hands and feet, and opened fire indiscriminately before fleeing the scene.
Iranian authorities confirmed the identities of five of the eight victims as Dilshad, his son Muhammad Naeem, Jaffar, Danish, and Nasir. Police responded swiftly, recovering the bodies and transferring them to a local hospital. Authorities have launched an investigation into the attack.
BLA later claimed responsibility for the killings in a statement issued to the media. This tragic event marks the second such attack in the Sistan-Baluchestan region. A few years prior, nine Pakistanis working as motor mechanics in a similar workshop were killed in a similar manner by armed assailants.
The incident occurred inside Iran, the responsibility lies squarely with internationally declared terrorist organization BLA which has repeatedly targeted civilians in cold blood.
This is a premeditated act of terrorism by an internationally declared terrorist outfit that has long exploited safe havens and porous boundaries to carry out ethnic killings.
The attack exposes BLA as more than just a regional threat, it is an international terrorist entity, operating across frontiers, attacking unarmed civilians, and undermining regional peace. The world’s attention is now focused on Iran and how it handles the BLA.
Its territory was used for a terrorist massacre. Whether by complacency or lack of action, silence will enables such human rights violation.
