BLA is part of a US-backed separatist movement seeking to carve off Baluchistan from Pakistan - spoiling China's Belt and Road Initiative projects in the South Asian country.
In 2011 the US openly backed armed militants and their aspirations to carve up Pakistan.
Some examples: National Interest in an op-ed, "Free Baluchistan" claimed:
"Pakistan has given China a base at Gwadar in the heart of Baluch territory. So an independent Baluchistan would serve U.S. strategic interests in addition to the immediate goal of countering Islamist forces." (link: https://nationalinterest.org/commentary/free-baluchistan-4799 )
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