Posts Tagged ‘Balochistan’

This picture was taken during BB's last visit to Quetta , 15th Dec, 2007Late Benazir Bhutto on her last visit to Baluchistan sought a public apology from Baluch Brothers and sister. She promised to give them their due rights. And today federal government has announced to pay all the arrears of Gas Development surcharge from 1954-1991 amounting [...]

Thank you, People's government, for addressing genuine issues and grievance of the people of Balochistan, through a comprehensive "Aghaz-e-Haqooq-e-Balochistan Package" which was tabled in the Parliament today as advised by the President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari.Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani formally announced the (more...)

On the runTarget killing in Balochistan is rising, with more and more non-Baloch officials and Shia Hazaras seeking safe shelter elsewhere in the countryBy Adnan AdilFollowing the killing of three Baloch leaders -- Munir Baloch, Ghulam Mohammad and Sher Mohammad -- in Turbat last April, target killings in Balochistan have risen sharply. [...]

Beyond the Jundullah attacksMonday, November 02, 2009Nasim ZehraThe Pakistan-Iran border is on the boil again. On Oct 26 the Iranian state media reported that 11 Iranian Revolutionary Guards arrested by Pakistan’s security forces had accidentally strayed into (more...)

Who will stop Shia killings in Quetta? Pakistan or the USA?US demands urgent action in QuettaBy Baqir Sajjad Syed Friday, 02 Oct, 2009Mr Feierstein said the US believed that Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was hiding in Pakistan’s tribal (more...)

! نا بابا نا غلام محمد بلوچ ، شیر محمد بگتی اور لالہ منیر کو بلوچستان میں متحرک طالبان یا القاعدہ نے مارا ہے۔کیونکہ قوم پرستی کی لہر عام بلوچوں میں امریکہ کے خلاف جذبہ جہاد پیدا کرنے میں سب سے [...]

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Furore in Balochistan over killing of nationalist leaders QUETTA, April 9: A police constable was killed and at least 12 other people were injured in firing on Thursday as Balochistan slid into violence after the bodies of three Baloch nationalist leaders were found in Turbat. The decomposed bodies of Baloch National Movement (BNM) [...]

Peshawar, Mar 24 (ANI): US special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke has said that Quetta, the capital of Pakistans Balochistan province, appears to be the Talibans headquarters. Holbrooke made it clear that the number one problem in stabilising Afghanistan were Taliban sanctuaries in western Pakistan, including [...]

The plaint from Iran... The Iranian ambassador to Pakistan, Mr Mashallah Shakeri, has complained about the activities inside Iran of a terrorist organisation called Jundullah that is reportedly located inside Pakistan’s Balochistan province. The organisation has appeared a number of times in the news. It has kidnapped and killed several [...]

Please read the last four lines of the following editorial in Daily The News."As they stand over the bodies of their victims kidnappers invariably say that they bear no responsibility for the dead and headless body at their feet – it was all (more...)

Threat to secular Balochistan? By Malik Siraj AkbarMonday, 09 Mar, 2009 NOTHING embarrasses and irks Pakistani spymasters more than the issue of Talibanisation in Quetta. Over the years, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has repeatedly protested against the alleged protection provided by Islamabad to Mullah Omar, the [...]

(SANA News): Bloch Student Organization (BSO) Islamabad Zone will hold protests demonstration on Wed, 25 February against the attack on Secretary of Mines and Minerals Jan Muhammad Dashti here on Wednesday (today) before National Press Club Islamabad. He was attacked near Zarghoon Road on Monday when he was going to his office as a result he [...]

4 Shias Killed in Quetta QUETTA, Feb 24, 2009 (APP): Four welders, a father and his three sons were killed and their two colleagues were seriously injured when two armed assailants opened fire at them in their welding shop on Tuesday night, police officials told APP. The incident occurred on Munir Ahmed Khan Road near Balohistan University [...]

Update:UNHCR official is alive: BLUFUpdated at: 1350 PST, Monday, February 23, 2009 QUETTA: The Balochistan Liberation United Front (BLUF) has denied the reports of making phone call to press club regarding killing of abducted United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) provincial head John Solecki.The spokesman of BLUF said rumors are [...]

Based on various media reports, mainly compiled by Malik Siraj Akbar: According to a recent internet survey in Pakistan, the majority of people do not believe that Baloch nationalists are involved in the kidnapping of John Solecki. http://gmcmissing.wordpress.com/tag/john-solecki/ A relatively new organization calling itself the Baloch [...]

Hazara's London protest 2009Source: http://hazaranewspakistan.wordpress.comFebruary 08 — Hazara International Forum Great Britain (HIF-GB) held a protest demonstration in front of Pakistan High Commission in London against the consecutive target killing of Hazaras in Quetta Pakistan.The protersters were holding banners and placards against [...]

The sectarian-ethnic scourge The killing fields of Dera Ismail Khan in the NWFP claimed more victims on Tuesday as a grenade attack killed one man and wounded 18 others inside a Sunni mosque. The attacker hurled the hand grenade at the worshippers during evening prayers, causing a stampede and leading to more injuries. This is not a good sign [...]

Targeting Hazaras Wednesday, January 28, 2009 The killing of the chairman of the Hazara Democratic Party in Quetta adds to the violence inflicted on the minority community. The murder, for which the Sunni extremist group, the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, has claimed responsibility, has been labelled a sectarian one. The Hazaras, a distinct ethnic group [...]

Shia leader shot dead in QuettaUpdated at: 1140 PST, Monday, January 26, 2009 QUETTA: A leader of Hazara Democratic Party (HDP) has been shot dead in Quetta on Monday.According to reports, (more...)

The hinge Monday, January 12, 2009Once again eyes turn towards Balochistan – the largest, least populated, poorest and, by a terrible irony, most resource-rich province of the federation. Concerns are growing that [...]

Daily Jang, update 10 Jan 2009 .... Fierce battles in Hangu leave 26 dead By Abdul Sami Paracha KOHAT, Jan 10: A fierce gunbattle between rival sects in Hangu continued on Saturday amid efforts to broker an early truce to stop bloodshed. Official sources said that 26 people, including the deputy chairman of the local chapter of the [...]

The Balochistan National Party (BNP) Information Secretary and former senator Mr Sanaullah Baloch told Daily Times on Sunday that “supporters” of the Taliban had “captured land worth Rs2 billion in the eastern and western parts of Quetta” to “undermine the Baloch nationalist movement”. He accused the government of failure to establish [...]

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:36:04 GMT The Jundullah terrorist group has claimed responsibility for a deadly Monday suicide attack that rocked a southeastern city in Iran. A suicide bomber carrying explosives tried to enter a police station in the city of Saravan in Sistan-Baluchestan Province on Monday. The bomber, however, failed to enter the [...]

The man who survived Pakistan's GestapoSaturday, December 13, 2008Rahimullah YusufzaiBusinessman Munir Mengal's disclosures about his 22 months' detention in Pakistan are shocking and painful. The only known reason for his arrest and torture at the hands of former president Pervez Musharraf's government was his intention to launch a Balochi [...]

QUETTA: The death toll from the earthquake in Balochistan has risen to 135, Dilawar Kakar, a mayor in the area said.The 6.4 magnitude quake hit a rural area of the province before dawn on Wednesday.Kakar said 135 deaths have been confirmed and that the figure will likely rise as rescuers reach remote villages.He said hundreds more have been [...]

A strategy for Balochistan (Daily Times)The secretary of the Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Reconciliatory Committee on Balochistan, Senator Babar Awan, says he has a strategy for a solution to the problems of Balochistan. He has it narrowed down to “three Rs”: reconciliation with all political forces, rebuilding national institutions and reallocating [...]

More for the BalochWHILE the debate over which should come first in Balochistan, development or peace, is a never-ending one, no progress can be made on either unless a well-thought-out strategy is put into action. Considering that this has not happened over several decades of simmering Baloch discontent, President Zardari’s pledge to restore [...]

According to one report, there are five challenges that the new President of Pakistan, Mr Asif Ali Zardari, will face. These are ones posed by rising militancy, a failing economy, fledgling democracy, conflict with India, and his own personal safety. More realistically, he is supposed “to respond to Western pressure to crack down on Taliban and [...]