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Videos, press release claiming 102 Pakistani soldiers killed by BLA from 2024

A press release, allegedly by the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), is being widely shared on social media with claims that the separatist militant outfit has killed 102 Pakistani soldiers. The press release has been signed off by a BLA spokesperson, Jeeyand Baloch. Along with this, videos showing a fleet of trucks on fire and a massive explosion in the distance were also being circulated.

After the April 22 terror attack in Kashmir’s Pahalgam, in which 26 people were killed, social media has been rife with several unverified reports, images, and videos. These online claims have especially targeted the armies of India and Pakistan, resulting in a lot of misinformation emerging amid the worsening ties between the two countries in the aftermath of the attack. India has blamed the neighbouring country for fostering terrorist outfits, which it believes are responsible for the carnage in Kashmir.

On April 30, X user @krishnakamal077 shared a video showing several trucks on fire along with the BLA press release, claiming that the Balochistan Liberation Army was on a “rampage” against the Pakistani armed forces and had killed 102 Pakistani soldiers as part of its “OperationHerof”. (Archive)

At the time of writing this, the post had garnered over 220,000 views.

The same day, another X account, The Squadron (@THE_SQUADR0N), shared the same footage along with the letter, claiming that the BLA killed 102 soldiers belonging to the Pakistan army and held 22 captive as part of its overnight operation. (Archive)

The post has around 181,000 views.

These claims were also made by another X user, Vishalsena7 (@Vishalsena7_), who also shared similar footage and the BLA press release. (Archive)

Some social media users shared the BLA press release along with a short, 7-second video clip—different from the earlier footage—taken at night, showing a massive explosion.

X user Ayush Pandit (@ayush95_) shared the shorter clip and the same BLA press release claiming that 40 Pakistani soldiers were killed in an attack by the BLA. (Archive)

At the time of writing this, the post garnered over 280,000 views

Another X user, Dr. Vivek Pandey  (@Vivekpandey21), also shared the same footage and the letter along with a similar claim. (Archive)

The post has over 24,000 views.

Several social media users also shared similar claims. A few of them are below in the gallery.

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Fact Check

To verify the authenticity of the claim, we began by closely examining the press release allegedly issued by the Balochistan Liberation Army and found that it was dated August 26, 2024.

Making it clear that the press release is not a recent one, but rather almost 9 months old. 

Next, we investigated the two viral videos separately.

Video 1

A simple keyword search led us to a post dated August 26, 2024, by the X account Bahot (@bahot_baluch), whose bio says they are a journalist and writer focused on armed groups in Balochistan. The post had the same footage of trucks in flames, with the Hakkal Media watermark and the BLA logo visible in the top right corner. The user credited Hakkal Media, a BLA mouthpiece, for the video.

A comparison of the two videos is given below.

The same day, this user also shared the BLA press release, dated August 26, 2024, that was viral recently.

To be sure, we also checked for news reports from then and found several that used the same screengrab of the purported video. A report by The Economic Times published on August 26, 2024, said that the insurgent group BLA had launched “Operation Herof” and taken responsibility for attacking and killing 102 Pakistani soldiers. 

On September 5, 2024, news outlet The France 24 Observers reported that on August 25 and 26 over 70 people were killed in a series of coordinated attacks across Pakistan’s Balochistan province by the BLA. Citing Pakistani officials, the report noted that the victims included migrant workers from the neighbouring Punjab province, who were pulled from their trucks and executed after they were identified as Punjabi. The article also sais that 14 soldiers and police officers were killed in the attacks. Meanwhile Pakistani security forces had killed 21 BLA militants.

Video 2

We then looked at the 7-second clip that showed a massive explosion. After breaking down the video into multiple keyframes, we did a reverse image search on a few of them, which led us to a Reddit post from October 6, 2024, of the same footage. The caption of the post read, “Heavy Bombing by Israeli Fighter Jets on the Southern Suburb of Beirut”.

Taking cue from this, we conducted a keyword search that led us to several news reports confirming Israel’s airstrike on the suburbs of Beirut in October last year. On October 6, 2024, Moneycontrol reported citing Lebanese media that there was a series of intense Israeli airstrikes on southern Beirut, including the Chweifat area. According to Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA), five strikes were carried out—four of which were described as “very violent.” The targeted areas were reportedly under Hezbollah control, with ambulances quickly dispatched to the affected sites.

To be sure, we also conducted multiple keyword searches to check if there were any recent news reports of a BLA attack in Pakistan, considering the claims said 102 soldiers were killed, but found no credible coverage on it.

In conclusion, the claim that the separatist militant group Balochistan Liberation Army carried out an attack in Pakistan during the last week of April 2025, killing 102 Pakistani soldiers, is false. The videos circulated to support such claim are old and unrelated. The BLA press release being circulated also dates back to August 2024.

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This content originally appeared on Alt News and was authored by Ankita Mahalanobish.