Recognise Pakistan as terror state: BNM Baloch National Movement condemns Pak Air Force’s airstrike in Tirah valley

 

 

 

THE Baloch National Movement (BNM) has strongly condemned a reported airstrike by the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) in the “Tirah valley” of Khyber District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which it claims killed more than 30 civilians, including children. The Baloch National Movement also called on civilised nations and the international community to recognise Pakistan as a “terror state.” “We call on civilised nations and the international community to recognise Pakistan as a state that wields its power against its own people -- a terror state that crushes peaceful political movements through brute force, enforced disappearances, and extrajudicial killings.

 

When citizens, in response to such oppression, exercise their right to defend themselves, the state retaliates with collective punishment and ruthless violence, “ Baloch National Movement wrote in an X post. In a statement released via social media platform X, the BNM called the attack part of a recurring pattern of state violence against its own citizens. A video widely circulated online reportedly shows graphic scenes of the aftermath, with children among the casualties. “This is not the first such atrocity-the Pakistan Army has repeatedly used its air power against citizens,” the BNM said in its statement. Citing a recent incident in Balochistan, the organisation alleged that earlier this month a Pakistan Army drone strike in Zehri Tehsil, Khuzdar District, near the Tarasani Causeway, killed four members of a single family, including two women and a man, and injured five others.

 

The BNM accused the state of systematically targeting civilian populations under the guise of security operations, stating that there is “documented evidence” of repeated air bombardments and resulting civilian deaths. 

 

 

A HUMAN rights organisation on Tuesday revealed that 98 cases of enforced disappearances were documented across Pakistan in August. In its August 2025 report, Paank, Baloch National Movement’s Human Rights Department, mentioned that the cases were reported across 13 districts, including Karachi and Multan, with most of them being reported in Quetta (21), Kech (19) and Dera Bugti (14). In a post shared on X, Paank mentioned that 32 victims were released, “many bearing signs of torture.”

 

Balochistan has been reeling under the endless atrocities at the hands of Pakistani authorities. On Monday, Paank reported that Pakistani security forces forcibly took Hilal Murad, a resident of the Baloch ward area in Gwadar city, from his home. Separately, the human rights body also stated that Akhtaj Shoukat, a resident of Kech district, was forcibly taken from his home by Pak security forces. Pak politician Maulana Fazl-Ur-Rehman alleged recently that the country’s authorities are involved in kidnapping and enforced disappearances across Balochistan.