Dr. Mahrang Baloch Condemns Surab Airstrike: “This Is Not a Military Operation, but Genocide”

Pakistan has ruled over the Baloch people for the past seven decades. The state has sought to maintain its rule over Balochistan by continuously keeping the Baloch people under oppression. However, this violent model of governance has now failed, and once again, ordinary Baloch civilians are being made to pay the price for that failure.
The Baloch genocide is not merely an internal issue of Balochistan; it is a global humanitarian tragedy. Until this genocide and its underlying causes are addressed, every discussion of peace will remain nothing more than rhetoric and an attempt to escape reality.

Over the past several months, under the pretext of security, curfews, military operations, enforced disappearances, and killings have increasingly become routine across different parts of Balochistan.
A large number of these incidents find no place in the narrative presented by the state media. Yet the Baloch people witness these conditions with their own eyes every day and endure their consequences in their own lives. We reject every state policy that puts the lives of Baloch children, women, and ordinary civilians at risk and then dismisses their deaths merely as “collateral damage.” Last night in Surab, Pakistani warplanes carried out aerial bombardment, resulting in 27 people being killed or injured, including children.
If a state considers the killing of dozens of civilians, including children, as a result of bombing civilian homes and populated areas to be a routine operation, then this is not a military operation—it is genocide.
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Thepeople of Surab have blocked the road in protest against this brutal and oppressive attack. Their protest demonstrates that they will not remain silent in the face of these killings and threats to their lives and property.
I appeal to the people of Balochistan to come out of their homes in response to the Surab incident and, instead of merely mourning our dead, resist. Our survival lies in resistance.

Dr. Mahrang Baloch
13 August 2026
Huda Jail, Quetta, Balochistan