Insurgency In Balochistan Jason Heeg The Foreign Military Studies Office (Fmso)At Fort
Baloch separatism is a much greater issue to the Pakistan military than the situation in the FATA. Since the partition of British India in 1947, there have been five periods of insurgency in Balochistan.
The emphasis placed on counterinsurgency and counterterrorism operations in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province) and Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan has left the issues in the western Balochistan province under-appreciated. While there has been some focus on the Taliban’s government-in-exile, the Quetta Shura, which operates from the Baloch capital, there has been little attention applied to Baloch nationalism. Counter-intuitive to the common American point of view, Baloch separatism is a much greater issue to the Pakistan military than the situation in the FATA. Since the partition of British India in 1947, there have been five periods of insurgency in Balochistan.
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