Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday congratulated the country’s premier spy agency ISI for carrying out a successful operation that led to the arrest of the banned Baloch National Army (BNA) Gulzar Imam.
The Pak Army Media wing, ISPR in an press release , announced the arrest of Gulzar Imam, the founder of one of the most prominent separatist groups called the Baloch National Army (BNA), in a statement issued on Friday.
BNA leader Gulzar Imam alias Shambay, was arrested in a high-profile intelligence-based operation by the security forces, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) revealed in a statement issued a day earlier.
The “high-value target” had been a “hardcore militant as well as founder and leader of the banned outfit Baloch National Army (BNA) which came into being after the amalgamation of Baloch Republican Army (BRA) and United Baloch Army (UBA)”, read the statement.
The military’s media wing elaborated that the BNA has been responsible for dozens of violent terrorist attacks in Pakistan, including attacks on law enforcement agencies (LEAs) installations in Panjgur and Noshki.
Gulzar also remained as “deputy to Brahamdagh Bugti in Baloch Republican Army (BRA) till 2018 and was instrumental in the formation of Baloch Raji Aajoi Sangar (BRAS) and remained its operational head”, the ISPR further maintained.
On the successful operation the premier offered “heartfelt felicitations to the ISI” for conducting the “brilliant operation” which led to Imam’s arrest.
“This operation speaks of outstanding professionalism of our institutions,” he stated.
The prime minister furthered that the arrest would help suppress militancy in Balochistan and “usher in a new era of peace”.
