Baloch leader Abdul Nabi Bangulzai is alive

By spreading such propaganda, they first want to weaken the will of the Baloch and then launch a full-fledged operation to kill everyone

By Sajid Hussain

Veteran Baloch militant leader Abdul Nabi Bangulzai is alive and “sitting with me right now sipping from his tea”, a source in the United Baloch Army, a militant group Bangulzai purportedly leads, told Balochistan Times on Sunday.

Home Minister Balochistan Sarfaraz Bugti claimed the previous day in a press conference that Bangulzai had been killed along with 34 other militants in the Kalat area. He was being accompanied by the provincial government’s spokesman, Anwarul Haq Kakar.

Naela Quadri denies India’s role in ‘Baloch struggle’

India, despite its strategic interests, has not been forthcoming in support to the Balochistan freedom movement, says a prominent author-activist from the restive western Pakistani province, rebutting Islamabad’s allegations that New Delhi was instigating separatist trouble there.

Naela Quadri Baloch, 50, also refuted Pakistan’s fresh claims that it had arrested from Balochistan an alleged Indian spy, Kulbushan Jadhav.