Entries Tagged as ‘Interviews and Articles’

January 5, 2010

COMMENT: Significance of Raisani-Mengal meeting —Malik Siraj Akbar

Even if held in a tribal capacity, the meeting between Nawab Raisani and Sardar Mengal is a welcome development. They should keep on meeting each other to discuss all issues, including political, because political issues need political solutions

An unexpected but a very significant meeting took place between Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Mohammad Aslam Raisani and [...]

January 5, 2010

Children of the conflict

The Baloch Hal Editorial
With the commencement of the new year, 2010, children of the missing Baloch persons have established a hunger strike camp in front of Quetta Press Club. The composition of the camp is very diverse. These children come from different districts of Balochistan. Their ‘missing’ parents also belong to varying age brackets and [...]

January 1, 2010

گوادر ہو یا خانہ کعبہ – بابوگورگیج

یہ لوگ گوادر میں‌آکر این ایف سی ایوارڈ پر دستخط کریں‌یا خانہ کعبہ میں‌بیٹھ کر۔ ان پر کوئی بھی اعتماد کرنے والا نہیں۔ اس کا مطلب صرف یہ نہیں‌کہ جھوٹے ہیں۔ بلکہ بلوچ قوم نے اپنی وطن کو ان کی غلامی سے نکالنے کےلئے قسم کھائی ہے، شہید اکبر بگٹی، بالاچ مری و غلام محمد [...]

December 31, 2009

Baluchistan and the Af/Pak War

An Interview with Ahmar Mustikhan
By STEWART J. LAWRENCE
US news reports about the widening war in the “Af-Pak” region have made increasing reference to the presence of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Baluchistan, a Texas-sized swath of territory located in southern Pakistan.  Yet Americans remain surprisingly unaware that Baluchistan is home to an insurgent movement that [...]

December 28, 2009

“Baloch sardars are stooges of establishment”

By Murtaza Ali Shah
TNS: What is Baloch movement for you? How do you define it?
Mehran Baloch: It’s a retrospective movement. The new generation has revived the origins of the Balochistan movement. There was a time when the occupation and forceful assimilation of Balochistan by Pakistan was accepted by many, but my generation with the guidance [...]

December 18, 2009

A Tribute to Shaheed Nisar Hussain Baloch

بے شک تو بگش ظلم بکن آس بجن
من دارءِ سرءَ حق گشاں چُپ نباں

December 14, 2009

Baloch separatists unmoved by package, talks offer

By Mumtaz Alvi
Islamabad: Baloch nationalist leader Nawab Khair Bakhsh Marri is neither interested in Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani’s negotiations offer nor in the recently announced package for Balochistan, a close aide of Nawab Marri said on Saturday.
The octogenarian Baloch nationalist leader, who no more believes in talks with Islamabad, lives in Karachi’s Defence Housing [...]

December 10, 2009

Does the UDHR apply to the people of Balochistan?

By Faiz Baluch
As the world marks International Human Rights Day this 10 December, Pakistan and Iran should be urged to respect the Human Rights of the Baloch.
International Human Rights Day is observed by the international community every year on Dec. 10 to commemorate the day in 1948 when the United Nations General Assembly adopted the [...]

November 25, 2009

Baloch did not want provincial autonomy, but freedom: Harbiyar Marri

Daily Times Monitor
LAHORE: Former Balochistan minister Harbiyar Marri said on Tuesday that he is ready to talk to all forces in Pakistan, including the military on equal terms. Talking to a private TV channel.
He said he supported movements for an independent Balochistan, adding that he did not show his allegiance to Pakistan under the constitution [...]

November 21, 2009

Meeting Pakistan’s Other Insurgents

‘We also make politics, but with weapons. In Pakistan there is no other way,’ says Mir quoting Khair Bakhsh Marri.
By Karlos Zurutuza  
  
The Baloch homeland, which straddles the borders of Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan, is a forgotten battleground in one of the world’s hotspots. Karlos Zurutuza meets the insurgents fighting for this divided region.  

November 20, 2009

Shaheed Balach Marri Day

آج بلوچستان بھر میں‌پہیہ جام و شٹرڈاؤن ہوگا 
 
غلامی کا پیکج قبول نہیں صرف آزادی چاہتے ہیں:  بی این ایف جلسہ عام  
 
شہید بالاچ غللام اقوام کیلئے سمبالک حیثیت رکھتے ہیں: بی ایس او آزاد، بی آر پی 
 
بالاچ کو شہید کرنے والے ناکام رہے  :  ڈیلی توار ایڈیٹوریل 
 
بالاچ ، بلوچ  اور  بلوچستان  -  تحریر:  مہران ہمبل 
 
ندر پہ [...]

November 19, 2009

Baluchistan International Conference

November 21-22, 2009 Washington DC
 
ANNOUNCEMENT
BHRC-Canada will be attending Baloch International Conference in DC
A high delegation team will be attending Baloch International Conference being held in Washington DC on November 21 and 22.  The Canadian team will be comprised of Baloch from both Eastern and Western Balochistan. BHRC is requesting all the peace loving, secular, democrats [...]

November 18, 2009

Shaheed Mir Balach Marri

تحریر:‌ مرید بلوچ

گرتے ہیں‌شہسوار ہی میدان جنگ میں
وہ طفل کیا گرے جو گھٹنوں‌کے بل چلے

November 14, 2009

قاتلوں‌کو ایک اور بلوچ (نثار بلوچ) کی شہادت مبارک ہو

نثار بلوچ کو کیوں‌قتل کیا گیا؟

کل تک ہمارے آباؤاجداد نے جن کے آباؤ کو رہنے کیلئے آسرادیا تھا، آج وہ ہم کو ہماری زمینوں‌سے بیدخل کرکے ہمیں‌موت کی سوغات دینا چاہتے ہیں تو وہ سن لیں‌نثار بلوچ ڈرنے والا نہیں‌یہ جنگ میری موت کے بعد بھی جاری رہےگی۔

November 11, 2009

Jail me but free my dad

By: Malik Siraj Akbar
Meet three-year old Beurag Baloch. He is the son of Jalil Reki, the central secretary information of the Baloch Republican Party (BRP), who went missing since the early days of 2009. Beurag tells us that he believes his father was picked up by the agencies. He does not exactly know what “agencies” [...]

November 10, 2009

Balochistan: The tense calm

By Qurat ul ain Siddiqui
“The Pakistani government continues to allege Indian and Afghan involvement in fuelling separatist tensions inside Balochistan which BRA’s chief Brahmdagh Bugti denies. At the same time, the province’s Dera Bugti region is still practically a “no-go area” where journalists and human rights activists have been trying (so far unsuccessfully) to lead [...]

November 9, 2009

بلوچ پھر نثار ہوگیا

ڈیلی توار ایڈیٹوریل  09 نومبر 2009

نثار بلوچ کراچی میں‌سماجی حوالے سے اپنی ایک خاص پہچان رکھتے تھے وہ گزشتہ کئی سالوں‌سے کراچی کی بلوچ آبادی سے متصل سینکڑوں ایکڑاراضی پر محیط گٹرباغیچہ کے تحفظ کیلئے عملی جدوجہد کررہے تھے۔

October 23, 2009

Inside Balochistan’s Ravaged Heartland

Harried by the Taliban on one side and the State on the other, Balochis remain hunted in their own land, reports QURRATULAIN ZAMAN
IF YOU want to know what is happening in Pakistan’s troubled province of Balochistan, just go to Sariab Road, in its capital, Quetta. Most people who live on its 6-km stretch are Baloch. [...]

September 28, 2009

‘Some Balochis support sardari, others democracy.’

By Qurat ul ain Siddiqui (Dawn.com)
Recently, government sources have spoken of granting a general amnesty to all Baloch political prisoners as well as those in exile or allegedly involved in anti-state activities. Earlier this month, the government also decided to halt work on setting up cantonments in Balochistan’s Dera Bugti and Kohlu areas. However, [...]

September 25, 2009

بلوچ رہنما “دھشتگرد“ قرار

روزنامہ توار ایڈیٹوریل

اہم ترین اور بلوچ قوم میں‌مقبولیت اور احترام رکھنے والے بلوچ رہنماؤں کو دہشتگردوں‌کی فہرست میں‌شامل کرنا مسئلے کو مزید بگاڑنے اور بلوچستان میں‌لگی ہوئی آگ کو ہوادینے کے خطرناک نتائج سامنے لاسکتا ہے