<span style="color: #222222;">The United States has designated the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), which is fighting Pakistani rule in Balochistan province, as a terrorist organisation. <br />''<br />''The US State Department said, BLA is an armed separatist group that targets security forces and civilians, mainly in ethnic Baloch areas of Pakistan. The department has also made it a crime for anyone in the US to assist the BLA terrorists and freezing any US assets they may have.<br />''<br />''BLA carried out several terrorist attacks last year, including a suicide attack in August that targeted Chinese engineers in Balochistan and an attack on the Chinese consulate in Karachi in November that claimed four lives.<br />''<br />''Pakistan has already classified the outfit as a terror organisation and have been urging the US to do the same. <br />''<br />''The US has also sanctioned Hezbollah operative Husain Ali Hazzima, chief of the Beirut-based terrorist group's intelligence unit.</span><br />