Significant2004 – 2024 · 20 years

Insurgency in Balochistan

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Quetta · Balochistan · Pakistan

Estimated casualties

6.0K – 12Kestimated dead

Ongoing; thousands of combatants and civilians killed and many enforced disappearances; point-in-time estimate.

SOURCEscholarly

An ongoing low-level separatist insurgency in Pakistan's Balochistan province (with spillover into Iran), driven by grievances over political marginalisation, resource control and enforced disappearances. The latest phase intensified from 2004 and continues, with thousands of deaths (figures are a point-in-time snapshot, ongoing).

Belligerents2

Pakistan
Baloch separatist groups (BLA and others)

Sources

Wikipedia: Insurgency in Balochistan
UCDP Conflict Encyclopedia
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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