After the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, Taliban and their leaders in Kandahar and other southern provinces easily escaped to Baluchistan, mainly to its capital city, Quetta. Taliban's Quetta Shura is globally known. It is believed that most of the attacks launched by Taliban in southern provinces of Afghanistan are planned in this very city. Last year, the bomber who killed Burhanuddin Rabban, the then chief of High Peace Council was sent from by Taliban located in Quetta.

Over the last nine years or so, the capital of Baluchistan province of Pakistan, Quetta - considered one of the important hubs of Taliban and other groups of militants – has gradually turned into violent place for its residents to live. This strategically important city is only around 250 km away from Kandahar province of Afghanistan.

This makes Kandahar city, the used-to-be capital of Taliban's Afghanistan, the closest city to Quetta. The loosely controlled Chaman-Boldak border crossing between Baluchistan and Kandahar largely facilitates in and out movements of militants and smuggling of weapons and drugs.

Presence of Taliban in Quetta seems to have largely assisted other smaller groups of militants having similar ideologies as that of Taliban. Terrorists signal their power and influence in the city from time to time by launching attacks on Pakistani government and people.

Lashkar e Jangvi (LeJ) that is closely affiliated to Taliban and al Qaeda has been involved in killing Shiite population, mainly Hazaras, living in Baluchistan while another militant group Baluchistan Liberation Army (BLA) is known for its deadly attacks on Pakistani security forces. Reports say, residents of this city are having no good days as militancy is multiplying at a fast pace and government is falling short to counter it. Targeted killings, suicide bombings and kidnappings have ruined the peace from the lives of people in Baluchistan, mainly in its capital.

Since Baluchistan has a very long border with Afghanistan, it feared that growing militancy in there would have direct impacts on stability in southern part of Afghanistan. During 90s Taliban first appeared in Kandahar and then went on occupying other provinces of Afghanistan fulfilling their logistic or other sorts of needs from Baluchistan.

As the NATO troops are leaving Afghanistan, in complete, by 2014, growing grip of insurgency in Baluchistan poses solid threats to the stability and integrity of post-NATO Afghanistan. It is therefore crucial for counterinsurgency allies that also include the government of Pakistan, to take the growing insurgency in Baluchistan as a serious matter and take in time remedial actions.