Pakistan declares Baluch rebel group a terrorist organisation

PAKISTAN: Pakistan. has branded an underground militant group operating in the restive southwestern province of Baluchistan a "terrorist" organisation, officials said Sunday.

"The federal government has declared Baluchistan Liberation Army (BLA) as terrorist organisation over its involvement in sabotage and subversive activities," provincial police chief, Chaudhry Mohammad Yaqub, told AFP.

He said Baluchistan police had arrested an unspecified number of militants who confessed they had been receiving money and weapons from the group for attacks on government installations. "BLA itself had been claiming responsibility after almost every incident," Yaqub said.

He said now the group was officially a terrorist organisation, its name could not appear in the Pakistani media.

QUETTA, Sunday, AFP