Pakistan, July 12 -- Balochistan is burning. Again. And this week, the flames came not just from roadside bombs or ambushed patrols, but from a calculated campaign to tear Pakistan's social fabric apart.

In a horrifying sequence of events near the Sur-Dakai area of Zhob, militants stopped Punjab-bound passenger coaches, checked identity cards, and abducted ten travellers. Nine of them (all Punjabi) were later found shot dead, their bodies discarded near the roadside. The banned Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF) later claimed responsibility. That same night, a separate group of passengers was reportedly kidnapped near Sardhaka, with search operations still underway.

But these were only the most visible horrors. In the span of a few days...