A devastating fedayeen attack in Balochistan’s Khuzdar city has once again ripped the facade off Pakistan’s counter-insurgency strategy, exposing a dangerous nexus between state-sponsored proxies and transnational jihadist networks. On July 8, the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) launched a massive assault on the heavily fortified compound of Shafiq Mengal—a notorious commander of a state-backed “death…