KARACHI: Pakistani law enforcement agencies have identified a key female propagandist, facilitator and recruitment agent of the internationally banned terrorist outfit, the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), during a joint intelligence-based operation in Karachi.
According to official sources, the Pakistani government will soon announce a head money of Rs1 million each for information about Habiba Peerjan and Daad Shah.
The amount will be given to individuals who provide the concerned department with information about the whereabouts of the two facilitators of the terrorist network.
According to official sources, law enforcement agencies conducted an extensive operation to arrest Habiba Peerjan, the wife of Haneef and resident of Dasht in District Kech, in Gulshan-e-Mazdoor, Karachi, on May 25, 2026.
However, she managed to escape before the area was fully cordoned off.
During the search of her residence, law enforcement personnel recovered diaries and written records related to BLA terrorists.
During a recent Intelligence based operation in Karachi, credible material and documents have led to a key female Terrorist facilitator on the run, who has close personal links with BLA commanders and has a major role in both terrorist propaganda campaign and terrorist recruitment and facilitation.
Security sources said the recovered documents and collected information indicate that Habiba Peerjan has close links with the BLA and remained in direct personal contact with several terrorist commanders, including Rustam Peerjan.
She visited Rustam Peerjan twice in Dasht Forest, including one visit on February 14.
Investigators believe these visits and extended stays away from home were part of her attempt to maintain close personal relations with BLA commanders.
Habiba Peerjan facilitated the transportation of weapons and equipment for the BLA, maintained contact with key BYC figures and disseminated anti-state propaganda through poetry on terrorist-affiliated social media platforms.
A social media account with her name also promoted poetry in the Baloch language, which urged people to reject elections and generated anti-state sentiments.
Officials believe Habiba was in contact with Daad Shah, who is linked to the Indian intelligence agency RAW, which had earlier also deployed Commander Gulbushan Yadev to organise and promote terrorism in Balochistan.
Daad Shah received multiple cash payments, upto Rs 1 million, which he distributed to terrorist recruiting agents like Habiba, through various couriers in order to avoid suspicion.
The money was distributed through local couriers rather than via bank accounts or mobile applications to avoid any financial trail.
Investigators believe this dangerous network operates in several layers, with financial handlers, couriers, ideological motivators, facilitators, and field contacts working in a well-organised network to avoid detection.
Daad Shah had earlier worked as a shopkeeper in Karachi before moving to Gwadar, where he stayed for around three years to help establish a terrorist support network before returning to Karachi.
Habiba Peerjan has been in direct contact with handlers and involved in motivating, recruiting and hosting suicide attackers.
According to investigators, she provided ideological motivation, arranged temporary shelter, and helped convince vulnerable Baloch women to join terrorist activities.
Sources said terrorist groups increasingly rely on women to exploit Baloch cultural sensitivities due to deep respect for women, in order to move suicide bombers and weapons.
In terms of recruitment and operational tactics, Baloch terrorist groups BLA and BLF differ from the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in terms of their greater use of women, both as facilitators and terrorists, as well as to motivate youth to join terrorist organisations by glorifying their violent actions through poetry and public protests.
While the TTP generally avoids using women in violence due to conservative patriarchal Pashtun tribal values and cultural norms, the Baloch terrorist outfits have a more liberal organisational culture by recruiting as well as glorifying women terrorists.
According to some experts, BLA and BLF have a similar approach towards women members as ISIS, which recruited women not just for use in violent terrorist attacks but also as comfort women for the terrorist commanders.
This was evident because at times these women are staying away from their own homes and families, including husbands, for months to live with terrorist commanders.
Habiba also wrote nationalist poetry that glorifies suicide attackers. Her poetry is promoted in circles sympathetic to terrorist organisations and used to motivate prospective terrorists.
Such propaganda is used to motivate potential suicide attackers by spreading hatred against their own country and government, justify violence against civilians, law enforcement personnel, and state institutions.
Major efforts to trace and apprehend Habiba Peerjan are still ongoing, while authorities are considering announcing a lucrative amount to anyone who can help law enforcement agencies and police quickly reach Habiba Peerjan.
