Posts Tagged ‘Balochistan’

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 پاکستان کا بلوچستان سے زبردستی کا رشتہ ایک دفعہ تاتاریوں کے سردار چنگیز خان سے کسی نے پوچھا "اے خان تاتارتو نے کبھی کسی پہ رحم کیا ہے ؟ ہاں ! چنگیز خان نے جواب دیا . "ایک دن میں گھوڑے پر سوار نیزہ [...]

Today the Baloch nation is observing black day to mark its annexation to Pakistan. For me it is not a black day it is a day I want to celebrate. I want to celebrate because it gave me the occasion to grow up with these lovely people known as the Baloch. I want to celebrate my Baloch friends, my Baloch students, my Baloch relatives and many of them [...]

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Individualland Pakistan (IL-Pakistan) is an active non-partisan, not for profit registered civil society group. Since its inception, IL has worked on pertinent issues in respect to governance, rule of law, media communication skills, strengthening civil society and democratic development. It is actively engaged with the Pakistani media. This [...]

What is currently happening in Kohistan, Gilgit, Parachinar, Quetta and other places in Pakistan to Shia Muslims has its roots in Pakistani establishment's dream of renting itself out to imperialism against Islamic Republic of Iran. They want to bully Shia Muslims of Pakistan into submission so they wont oppose this. And they want to create a [...]

  From Facebook statuses to Twitter tweets and from online blogs to statements by secessionists Baloch leaders published in Pakistani newspapers, I am perturbed to see the comparison of Balochistan to Kashmir. The innuendos of familiarity of the word plebiscite and self determination and how every Pakistani knows it well due to its [...]

Cyril Almeida's column on Balochistan (Balochistan, the unattributable story, Dawn, 26 Feb 2012) is an example of how Pakistan's military establishment manufactures confusion and obfuscation through friendly journalists. The column is an example of how false neutrality and contrarian views are used to obfuscate military state's atrocities [...]

Related posts: Media blackout The blackout of news from and about Balochistan is now being viewed as an integral part of the broader conflict — as if the media is responsible for the ignorance of the rest of the country about the province The previously overlooked fury in Balochistan against the mainstream media has gradually transformed [...]

Shaizi Tauseef Cheema's article on the situation in Balochistan (in Urdu):

A popular Pakistani blog, Let us Build Pakistan (LUBP) describes itself as “critical PPP”. Recently, this blog has posted some articles against Ms. Sherry Rehman who was a close aide of Former prime minister Shaheed Benazir Bhutto. In one of the posts LUBP says: “In 2011, Sherry and pro-establishment journalist, Nasim Zehra used the [...]

Due to Islama­bad’s hawkis­h approa­ch, demand of the Baloch shifte­d from greate­r autono­my, self-rule, to indepe­ndence. The US Congressional hearing on Balochistan in Washington DC on February 9 should be a wake-up call for the centre to correct its current policies towards the province. In the past, the country’s ethnically [...]

  ہمارے ریاستی ادارے جن آوازں پر آنکھ اور کان بند کۓ ہوۓ ہیں، وہ آوازیں اب سات سمندر پار امریکی کانگرس کے ایوانوں میں سنائ دے رہی ہیں۔ امریکی ایوانِ نمائندگان کی امورِ خارجہ کی کمیٹی میں [...]

Pakistan's urban elites (fake liberals) promote Sherry Rehman as a champion of human rights.Editor's note: In the past, LUBP has been castigated for having the nerve to critisize Sherry Rehman.  The latter represents everything that is held dearly by Pakistan's educated pseudo-liberal chatteratti: glamourous, opportunistic and a disdain for the [...]

Related post: Jalil Reki’s murder is a test case for rights champion Sherry Rehman We are cross-posting an excellent report by BBC Urdu on Abdul Qadeer Reki Baloch's sit-in for the Baloch missing persons in front of Karachi Press Club. Abdul Qadeer's struggle for the Baloch missing persons is ongoing for almost two years, and is shamelessly [...]

Source: Pakistan Blogzine Related post: This is how a fake champion of human rights backstabs the Baloch cause Let's think about creating a Balochistan in southern part of Pakistan, said Congress republican Louie Gohmert, who completely backed the idea of independant Balochistan. Many people in Pakistan at present are not aware of the fact [...]

This post is in support to the Baloch Students’ call to shut down the Pakistani news channels and Pakistani Media’s consistent bias towards Balochistan. Balochistan is in the midst of a ferocious insurgency; the fourth of its kind against the injustices leveled against the people by the federal government and its associated agencies. In the [...]

Baloch Resident Party's president and one of the most loved Baloch Leader Brahamdagh bugti's sister and niece along with their driver gunned down at Gizri Bridge, Karachi early Tuesday. Zamu Domki, her daughter Jana Domki and driver Barkat Baloch, were returning home at their DHA based resident from a wedding when unknown asiliants on a [...]

Editor's note: The Baloch Students Organisation (BSO) has threatened that it will suspend transmission of private television channels across the province to protest ‘failure to properly highlight the plight of the people’. LUBP supports this protest and regretfully notes  that Pakistan's mainstream media as well as 98% of Pakistani bloggers [...]

The long-standing issue of strategically important and resource rich Balochistan requires more attention than it has received ever since Pakistan’s inception. Balochistan being country’s largest but most unprivileged region has witnessed a lot of contrite crimes against its dismantled majority leading it to a sinister climax wherefrom repeal [...]

Source: Express Tribune, January 22, 2012 KARACHI: It had been a long wait: 22 days. On the last day, Batool* waited all night for her husband to come home. She had cooked and kept aside change to pay the taxi driver when he arrived. In the living room of Dr Masood Naqvi’s* house in Quetta, women were reciting verses of the Quran and [...]

Editor's note: While we are cross-posting this article, right now there is an unannounced military operation currently taking place in Kohlu, Balochistan against Baloch insurgents. According to Baloch social media activists, bomber jets have been used today (16 Jan 2012) to attack Baloch insurgents in Khujal area of Kohlu district in Balochistan [...]

The armed struggle in Balochistan is between the haves and have-nots of Pakistan. On one hand are the Baloch tribesmen who belong to the most impoverished parts of Pakistan and on the other hand are the Pakistan’s armed forces that come from the most developed parts of Pakistan. The contrast between the Baloch tribesmen and the armed forces [...]

The ongoing conflict in Pakistan's largest in terms of area but smallest in terms of population province of Balochistan is often called Pakistan's "dirty war". In the following Al Jazeera documentary ethnic Baloch politicians and leaders share their vision of self-determination and freedom from Pakistan's military establishment's rule. The [...]

To GHQ: Shame on you GHQ. In the name of 'National Interest' you have always acted as an imperialist force. Right from the day of partition your vultures are devouring our resources. The Bengalis resisted your colonialism and in return your forces cut them down ruthlessly. The brave people of Baluchistan have been rightly trying to [...]

Given the scope of problems facing the people of Balochistan, from a security establishment that abducts at will anyone it considers a threat to chronic underdevelopment, the plight of the Hindu community in the province has not been given the attention it deserves. Estimated to number about 200,000, Hindus in Balochistan have been the victims of [...]

There’s been a startling moment in Pakistan’s foreign policy – a moment that not only crystallizes what this country is about but demonstrates the pitfalls of irregular combat in the age of terror. The moment was tragic and deliberate – a Nato air strike that left 24 Pakistani soldiers dead on a Pakistani base called Salala. Our time with [...]

Everyone is criticizing Pakistan Army, military intelligence agencies, Supreme Court of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif and innocent ex-Pakistani Chaudhry Mansoor Ijaz. To me being a Baloch this one sided criticism is panic creating. In the Naag area of Balochistan we don’t have ample of reputable newspapers like The Jang and The News to read and [...]

Chairperson of Baloch Human Rights Organisation (BHRO) Nargis Baloch appealed to the apex court to take suo motu action of human rights violation by state agencies in Balochistan. She lashed out at the role of Pakistan Army in the province saying: “Balochistan has been handed over to the army since former president Pervez Musharraf’s regime. [...]

A Human Rights Day Feature Prelude: Often I wonder how can the Pakistani rulers and civil society be happy and content as they are, when one integral part of the country not only bleeds but is pining to cut away from Pakistan…and very few if any are much concerned about it, how can one be happy when people say Pakistan Murdabad…the very [...]

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Source: Daily Mashriq

Recently two videos have been released showing the slaughter of Shia Muslims at the hands of the ISI-SCP backed Sipah-e-Sahaba/Lashkar-e-Jhangvi terrorists. Video 1: Mastung Massacre The first video of the Mastung massacre (September 2011) has been released by the SSP-LeJ media cell in which ISI-SSP produced Jihadi songs have been used as [...]

Muhammad Danish Baltistani, 32, left his home in Nawan-Killi (Quetta) for University of Balochistan, where he taught in the Computer Science Department on November 29 only to be carried back home by several men. He was killed. His crime: being Shia. Quetta is house (not home) to a small Balti Community – a maximum of 2000 – all of whom are [...]

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Dear editors of  Let Us Build Pakistan Though our memories of Pakistan Peoples Party are not pleasurable enough, but the way it has been plowed by a common adversary, the security establishment and discredited by right wing sycophants in politics, media and judiciary, we still have our hopes from it, if any good can be extradited to [...]

Cross-posted from Pakistan Blogzine While elite media and human rights organizations are currently busy in projecting Sherry Rehman (Pakistan's new Ambassador to the USA) as a champion of human rights in Pakistan, here is a first opportunity for Ambassador Rehman to demonstrate her commitment to human rights not only in Pakistan but also [...]

Cross-posted from Pakistan Blogzine Imran Khan and his political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) suffered its biggest blow yet as one of its main leaders from Balochistan resigned, alleging that the party was toeing the line of Pakistan's all powerful military establishment. According to news reports, Central Vice President of Imran [...]

Cross-posted from Pakistan Blogzine Another Baloch journalist, Javid Naseer Rind, was killed today. His mutilated dead body was recovered from Khuzdar. Javid Naseer Rind, the former Deputy Editor of Daily Tawar, a leading anti-military-state Baloch newspaper published in Urdu language, was kidnapped on 10 September 2011 from Hub Chowki, [...]

Source: Pakistan Blogzine Not a single day passes without abduction, torture, arrests and enforced disappearances of the Baloch people in the largest but the most underprivileged province of Balochistan by the state-run institutions, military and Para-military forces.  Journalists in Balochistan are cleverly monitored, either threatened or [...]