The video from Balochistan’s main highway brings no theatre, no curated optics, only unvarnished human fatigue. A man with a water bottle tries to calm a crowd that has spent days stranded. Women remain locked inside buses, their faces drawn. Children cry in the background. Travellers describe three and four nights trapped on the road. They say their buses were looted under cover of darkness. They accuse local criminals of prowling the blockade. They ask for a brief window of mercy so the sick, the women and the children can move. A man mentions a woman who has died. Another describes a fellow traveller who collapsed the day before. Their appeals are simple, stripped of ideology, anchored in survival.
The organisers of the sit in remain unmoved. Their activists keep the road sealed. Children are placed in front of buses, an old tactic to force paralysis. Their slogans stress rights and identity, yet their silence over the looting is louder than any chant. The pain unfolds in plain sight while those claiming moral authority look away.
Balochistan’s Public Has Seen Enough and Is Naming the Real Exploiters
The stranded public did not speak in riddles. They named the looters as thieves, and everyone present understood who these thieves were. Such protest camps have long been dominated by individuals linked to banned terrorist outfits including BLA and BLF, sheltered through networks packaged under the BYC label. These facilitators present themselves as defenders of rights, yet provide space for militants who attack security forces, government installations and civilians.
The looting was not random. It was the familiar predation that grows wherever militant fronts exploit public gatherings. The blockade itself provided the cover. The protesters knew it. The community knew it. The pattern has repeated for years.
This is the deception the Baloch public is rejecting with increasing clarity. They have seen protests morph into platforms for militant mobility. They have watched women and children turned into props. They have watched roads turned into bargaining chips that interrupt daily life, disrupt trade, and expose travellers to danger. They know their genuine grievances have been hijacked by those who thrive on instability.
They also know that these groups are not lone actors. Their networks have foreign backers. The United States has formally designated the BLA as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation, yet within Pakistan their enablers continue to hide behind NGO labels, protest committees and digital activism.
The message from the blocked highway is unambiguous. The stranded families asked for humanity. The militant ecosystem that helped engineer the blockade withheld it. No rhetoric of rights or nationalism can sanitise such cruelty. The Baloch public can see the truth. It is time the world sees it as clearly as they do.
