Pakistan, Aug. 12 -- The United States has officially designated the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) and its suicide wing, the Majeed Brigade, as Foreign Terrorist Organisations (FTOs). The State Department announced that this designation makes it a crime under US law to provide material, financial, or logistical support to the groups. It also freezes any assets they may hold in the US. The Majeed Brigade has now been formally listed as an alias of the BLA in the group's Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) entry from 2019.

The BLA was first declared a global terrorist group in 2019 following a series of deadly attacks in Pakistan. Since then, it has continued to claim responsibility for further acts of violence, including suic...