Majeed Brigade

Majeed Brigade (Balochi: مجید بریگیڈ۔ romanized: Majed Bereyagapyede, Urdu: مجید بریگیڈ, romanized: Majeed Baregid), also spelt Majid Brigade, is a special forces unit of the Balochistan Liberation Army.^[1] It is tasked with carrying out high-stakes and unconventional operations against Pakistani security forces.

Majeed Brigade
مجید بریگیڈ (Balochi) مجید بریگیڈ (Urdu)
Founder	Aslam Baloch †
Leader	Hammal Rehan
Foundation	2010
Dates of operation	2010–present
Part of	Balochistan Liberation Army
Opponents	Pakistan  China  Iran
Designated as a terrorist group by	Pakistan  China  Iran

History

The group was established in 2010 and named after Majeed Langove Senior aka Abdul Majeed Baloch, a Baloch militant who attempted to assassinate the prime minister at the time, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto on August 2, 1974, when he was at a public rally in Quetta as Majeed Senior sat atop of a tree with a grenade before accidentally committing suicide,^[2]and Majeed Junior another Baloch militant who was the younger brother of Senior who was killed by members of the Pakistan army on March 17, 2010, in a housing complex in Quetta.^[3] Since 2018 to October 2024, Majeed Brigade has committed 12 suicide suicide attacks on behalf of the Balochistan Liberation Army against both the Pakistan Army and Pakistani police.^[4]

The first suicide operation that the organization did was in December 2011 in which they targeted Shafeeq Mengal, son of a former Pakistani federal minister and leader of a death squad targeting Baloch insurgents, Shafeeq Mengal survived but 13 others were murdered.^[5]

On June 29, 2020, Majeed Briagade claimed responsibility for the Pakistan Stock Exchange attack through Twitter (Now X).^[6]

On October 7, 2024, a member of the Majeed Brigade, Shah Fahad, committed a suicide bombing against at the Karachi Airport killing two Chinese nationals at 23:00 (11 PM) local time, according to the Chinese embassy, the Chinese nationals were engineers that were part of the Chinese-funded enterprise Port Qasim Power Generation Co Ltd, which aims to build two coal power plants at Port Qasim, near Karachi.^[7]

In July 2024, the National Counter Terrorism Authority proscribed both the Hafiz Gul Bahadur group and Majeed Brigade as terrorist organizations for their role in suicide bombings and terrorist attacks including attacks done by the Majeed Brigade like against the Pakistan stock exchange, Chinese Consulate in Karachi and Confucius Institute at the Karachi university.^[8]

On November 10, 2024, the Balochistan Liberation Army released the identity of the perpetrator of the 2024 Quetta railway station bombing as Muhammad Rafiq Bizenjo who joined the Balochistan Liberation Army in 2017 before joining the Majeed Brigade for a year and volunteering to do the suicide attack.^[9][10]