Who are the Majeed Brigade, the Baloch militants who carried out the Gwadar attack?

Subject: IR

Section: Places in news

Context:

The Majeed Brigade of the separatist group Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) has claimed responsibility for Wednesday’s attack on a complex outside Pakistan’s strategic Gwadar Port.

More on news:

Pakistan has said eight militants and two security personnel were killed in the attack; the BLA has, however, claimed to have killed 25 security personnel.
The BLA is the most prominent of the many separatist groups in Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province.
The Majeed Brigade, which has been active since 2011, is the BLA’s dedicated suicide squad.
The unit is named after two brothers, both of whom were called Majeed Langove.
The Majeed Brigade has also attacked the Chinese Consulate in Karachi (2018), the Gwadar Pearl Continental Hotel (2019), and the Pakistan Stock Exchange in Karachi (2020), according to the South Asia Terrorism Portal.

The Balochistan context:

Balochistan, in Pakistan’s southwest, is the country’s largest and most sparsely populated province.
It has oil reserves and abundant natural resources, but the ethnic Baloch are Pakistan’s poorest and most under-represented people.
In recent years, Baloch militants have repeatedly targeted both Gwadar and Chinese nationals in the country.

About Majeed Brigade:

The BLA is the most prominent of the many separatist groups in Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province.
The Majeed Brigade, which has been active since 2011, is the BLA’s dedicated suicide squad.
The unit is named after two brothers, both of whom were called Majeed Langove.

About Balochistan:

Balochistan is a historical region in Western and South Asia, located in the Iranian plateau’s far southeast and bordering the Indian Plate and the Arabian Sea coastline.
This arid region of desert and mountains is primarily populated by ethnic Baloch people.
The Balochistan region is split among three countries: Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Administratively it comprises the Pakistani province of Balochistan, the Iranian province of Sistan and Baluchestan, and the southern areas of Afghanistan, which include Nimruz, Helmand and Kandahar provinces.
Balochistan is the largest among the 4 provinces in Pakistan.
It is located in the southwestern part of Pakistan.
It is bordered by Iran (west), Afghanistan (northwest), by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab provinces (northeast and east),by Sindh province (southeast) and by the Arabian Sea (south).
Its southern coastline, including the Makran Coast, is washed by the Arabian Sea, in particular by its western part, the Gulf of Oman.