Posts Tagged ‘Balochistan’

Source: Pakistan Blogzine 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 that Balochistan was invaded and forcibly annexed on March 27, 1948 (Seven and a half [...]

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 [...]

Cross-posted from Pakistan Blogzine For a counter view, read this post: LUBP must not consciously malign Najam Sethi **** Najam Sethi, according to some of his “urban liberal” colleagues (some of whom are employees/columnists of The Friday Times or Daily Times), is one of the most credible names in Pakistani journalism today. [...]

The media and the judiciary keep concentrating on non-issues but turn a blind eye to brutalities and human rights violations by state-run agencies Prime Minister Gilani, on his recent visit to Quetta, asked the militants to shun violence and urged them to choose the path of peace. He was addressing the passing out parade of the recruits of [...]

Cross-posed from Pakistan Blogzine A topic so close to my heart that it's hard to write on, but on Laibaah's request here is a take on the issue of Balochistan and in particular the issue of missing persons which is the core of the problem. The issue of Baloch missing person remains unresolved by the democratic government even after nearly 4 [...]

Originally published on her blog The Pakistan of today has found itself to be nothing but a wreckage of a country, a carcass of a state and an international outcast. A tragedy brought upon itself by both; the sharp functioning muscle of the unofficial institutional dictatorship that aggrandized itself under four decades of military [...]

People in Kharotabad are living in constant fear of possible drone attacks in their neighbourhood, considering that over the past six months, the Afghan and local Taliban seemed to covet this part of Quetta as a veritable ‘vacation spot’. Every four months, Taliban fighters return from war fronts in Afghanistan and rent out dozens of [...]

Cross posted from Pakistan Blogzine Asian Human Rights Commission has issued a comprehensive statement on the state of Baloch genocide in Pakistan which is currently being carried out by Pakistan army, its various sub-organizations and agencies (FC, ISI, MI etc) as well as jihadi proxy organizations (LeJ, SSP, Jundullah, TTP etc). In short, [...]

Cross-posted from Pakistan Blogzine The Mineral Rich Balochistan being the largest but the most backward province of Pakistan remains somber with many rightful grievances against the state. The extrajudicial killings of Baloch activists, scholars, journalists, human rights and political activists is not something new to talk about but the [...]

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Gunmen opened fire on a bus in the Mastung area of Balochistan, carrying passengers to Iran on Tuesday, killing around 26 Shia pilgrims, police said. “The bus was travelling to the town of Taftan when it was attacked,” a police official in Quetta, the provincial capital, told Reuters. The bus was carrying 60 passengers in total and was [...]

Editor's note: LUBP stands with its fellow Pakistani Hindus in these troubling times.   While more is being written about Balochistan, most urban writers wilfully obfuscate the role of the primary agency that is calling the shots in Balochistan. Hint, its NOT the elected Government.  After dumping the dead bodies of Baloch activist youth to [...]

My Pakistani friends I write to you in hopes of shedding light on the need for more understanding between the US and Paksitan relations. Building bridges between the US and Pakistan would be hazardous work for civil engineers; imagine a fine art doctorate involved in such a verbal construction project (I have to admit I was apprised of the peril [...]

The United Nations is urging Pakistan to investigate human rights violations, including several recent attacks on journalists. A spokesman for the U.N. human rights commissioner, Rupert Colville, said Friday the U.N. agency has recently received reports on the killing of a journalist in Baluchistan province and the disappearance of another in [...]

A vigil night in memory of Karachi victims of violence was called by the the Institute of Peace and Secular Studies in Lahore on 20th August, 2011. "Karachi is a sensitive issue, we don't want to bring politics in our event" said Diep Saeeda, Chairperson of the Institute of Peace and Secular Studies. The intention of the organizers was to [...]

Source: Daily Express