The footage, circulated on social media and shared by a regional independent online news portal citing the group’s official channel “Hakkal,” features several men who appear on camera displaying what they claim are official service cards and national identity documents. The individuals, identified by the BLA as detained servicemen, are heard appealing directly to Pakistani authorities.
In the video, one man, purportedly a soldier, questions why the authorities are allegedly refusing to acknowledge them as members of the armed forces. Holding up what he claims is his official identification, he asks, “How can the army say that we are not their personnel? Whose card is this? It’s the Army’s, right? Look at my identity card, Pakistan also issued this to me.”
