Growing Role of Women in Baloch Militancy

(Naureen Salim – The Jamestown Foundation) The Baloch Liberation Army’s (BLA) Operation Herof-2 attacks on January 31 marked a strategic shift, as the elite suicide unit, the Majeed Brigade, increasingly deployed female operatives. Women’s growing participation in Baloch militancy may reflect either genuine political agency or a deeper expansion of radicalization driven by organizational adaptation and strategic necessity. Female involvement reflects a dual dynamic in which grievance, trauma, and identity intersect with insurgent strategy, illustrating how gender is instrumentalized in asymmetric warfare and underscoring the need for gender-sensitive security responses. – Growing Role of Women in Baloch Militancy – Jamestown