The Balochistan Liberation Army (; abbreviated BLA), also known as the Baloch Liberation Army, is a Baloch ethnonationalist militant organization based in Afghanistan. The BLA's first recorded activity was during the summer of 2000, after it claimed credit for a series of bombing attacks on Pakistani authorities. The BLA is listed as a terrorist organization by Pakistan, the United Kingdom and the United States. Since 2004, the BLA has waged a violent armed struggle against Pakistan for what it claims as self-determination for the Baloch people and the separation of Balochistan from Pakistan. It has been involved in terror attacks against non-Baloch minorities in Balochistan. The BLA operates mainly in Balochistan, the largest province of Pakistan, where it carries out attacks against the Pakistan Armed Forces, civilians and foreign nationals. Although the BLA was officially founded in 2000, the media, and some analysts, speculate that the group is a resurgence of prior Baloch ethnonationalism insurgencies and, more specifically, the Independent Balochistan Movement of 1973 to 1977. According to some sources, two former KGB agents code named 'Misha' and 'Sasha' were among the architects of the original BLA. According to the two KGB agents, the original BLA was built around the core of the Baloch Student Organization (BSO). The BLA disappeared following the withdrawal of the Soviet Union from Afghanistan as the USSR had been its main source of funding. On 10 February 1973, Pakistani police and paramilitary raided the Iraqi embassy in Islamabad without the prior permission of the Iraqi government. During the raid, a large cache of small arms, ammunition, grenades, and other supplies were found in crates marked 'Foreign Ministry, Baghdad'; these were believed to be destined for Baloch rebels. Pakistan responded by expelling and declaring persona non grata the Iraqi Ambassador, Hikmat Sulaiman, and other consular staff. In a letter to President Nixon on 14 February, Bhutto blamed India and Afghanistan, besides Iraq and the Soviet Union, for involvement in a "conspiracy [...] [with] subversive and irredentist elements which seek to disrupt Pakistan's integrity" David Wright-Neville wrote that besides Pakistan, some Western observers also believe India secretly funds the BLA. However, in August 2013, US Special Representative James Dobbins said, "The dominant infiltration of militants is from Pakistan into Afghanistan, but we recognize that there is some infiltration of hostile militants from the other direction. So Pakistan's concerns aren't groundless. They are simply, in our judgment, somewhat