Separatist riflemen of the Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF) neutralized construction equipment that was working on a Pakistani military base along the Nihing River, near the town of Tump in southwestern Pakistan. The operator of the machinery was likely killed or wounded. The incident occurred on Feb. 2, 2023.

The various Baluchistan insurgent groups are fighting for independence from Pakistan as they claim the Pakistan government offers their ethnic group no representation within the government, while extracting resources from their mineral rich province and selling out their ancestral lands to Chinese investors.

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