Family of abducted Baloch activist appeals for his safe recovery

BALOCHISTAN: The close relatives and immediate family of abducted Baloch activists, Mohammad Ramzan Baloch, held a press conference at Quetta Press Club on Monday and demanded his safe recovery.

The family said that the Pakistani intelligence agencies abducted Ramzan Baloch from Zero point area of district Uthal, Balochistan on 14 July 2010. Since his abduction the family has no information about his fate and well-being. 

BRP organizer house in Noshki attacked by Pakistani state forces

BALOCHISTAN Jun 17: The central spokesperson of Baloch Republican Party (BRP) Sher Muhammad Bugti in a statement said that Pakistani forces attacked the house of BRP district Noshki organizer Ameer Muhammad Baloch on Sunday night, June 16, 2013.

He further said Pakistani occupying state forces have accelerated their Baloch genocidal policy to keep their control over Balochistan.  

No end to military atrocities in Balochistan

The Baloch will take a stand for humanity, but will humanity take a stand for the Baloch?

GENEVA: The Baloch people continue to face the brunt of a full fledged military campaign by the Pakistan military while the international community seemed unmoved by the atrocities, says Noordin Mengal, a Baloch representative at the UN Human Rights Council who has highlighted human rights issues at international forums.

Speaking at a conference held alongside the 23rd session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Mengal said that the actual gravity of the situation in Balochistan needs to be understood. He said that as we speak, the people of Balochistan continue to bleed, suffer and mourn, as a military operation is ongoing in Balochistan. He said that Pakistan has continuously attempted to subdue the Baloch people’s struggle for their rights and has been usurping the wealth and natural resources of Balochistan.

Woman suicide bomber behind Quetta bus attack

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BALOCHISTAN: A woman Lashkar-e-Jhangvi suicide bomber carried out the devastating attack on a university bus carrying women and her male accomplice struck a hospital in Pakistan’s southwestern city of Quetta, police said, as the death toll on Sunday rose to 26 in the multiple strikes.

The banned sectarian outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) has claimed responsibility for Saturday’s attacks on the bus and at the Bolan Medical Complex, saying they were carried out in retaliation for a raid against the group by security forces.

Symbol of Pakistan wiped-out from Balochistan

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BALOCHISTAN: Quaid-e-Azam Residency at Ziarat, a Pakistani national monument in Balochistan, was attacked and destroyed by Baloch freedom fighters (Sarmachars) today.

Accounting to media report, Baloch militants on Saturday blasted a 121-year-old building used by Pakistan’s founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah at Ziarat and raked it with gunfire, triggering a fire that blazed for four hours, destroying furniture and memorabilia. A policeman was killed in the shooting.

House Passes Rohrabacher Amendment Tying Human Rights in Pakistan to U.S. Military Aid

 

Washington, D.C.: Today, Congressman Dana ’s (R-CA)  amendment tying the Defense Department’s ability to give monetary aid to Pakistan’s military to its treatment of ethnic and religious minority groups was included in final passage of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2014 by the House of Representatives.

The amendment requires the Secretary of Defense to certify that Pakistan is not using its military to “persecute minority groups for their legitimate and nonviolent political and religious beliefs.” The amendment specifically names the Balochi, Sindhi and Christian minorities, among others.

Baloch freedom movement needs a durable and strong alliance: Baloch Salvation Front

BALOCHISTAN: The protest of Voice for Baloch missing Persons entered 1176th day on Friday. A delegation of Baloch Salvation Front visited the protest camp of the abducted Baloch persons and assured their full support to them.

قومی آزادی کیلئے متحدہ محاذ تشکیل کی کوششوں کو تیز کیا جائیگا ،بی ایس او آزاد مرکزی کمیٹی اجلاس میں اہم فیصلے

چیئرمین بلوچ خان کی زیر صدارت اجلاس منعقد، سیاسی صورتحال، درپیش نئے چیلنجز اور آزادی پسندوں کے درمیان اتحاد کی ضرورت پر تفصیلی بحث مباحثہ کیاگیا

کوئٹہ (این این آئی ) بلوچ اسٹوڈنٹس آرگنائزیشن آزاد کے مرکزی کمیٹی کا چوتھا اجلاس زیر صدارت مرکزی چیئرمین بلوچ خان منعقد ہوا اجلاس میں تنظیم کی گزشتہ کارکردگی، تنظیمی امور،عالمی و علاقائی سیاسی صورتحال اور آئندہ لائحہ عمل کے ایجنڈوں پر مفصل بحث مباحثے کے بعد اہم فیصلے کیئے گئے مرکزی کمیٹی کے اجلاس میں پاکستانی پارلیمانی الیکشن اور اس کے بعد کی سےاسی صورتحال ،تحریک آزادی کو درپیش نئے چیلنجز اورآزادی پسندوں کے درمیان اتحاد و اتفاق کی ضرورت پرتفصیلی بحث مباحثہ کیا گیا اور موجودہ صورتحال میں تنظیم کو مزید فعال و متحرک رکھنے اور تحریک آزادی میں بی ایس او آزاد کے تاریخی کردار کو مزید موثر بنانے کےلئے حکمت عملی ترتیب دی گئی.

 

4 days of Dr. Malik Gov.; 8 bodies of Baloch missing person found in Balochistan

BALOCHISTAN: Three more bullet-riddled bodies of Baloch missing persons were found in Balochistan on Wednesday(12 June 2013). Two of the bodies have identified whereas the identity of one the body could not be ascertained immediately.

According to details on a tip-off the police found a body near Gazgi area in main city of Khuzdar. The SHO of the city Police station in Khuzdar confirmed that the police have been informed on Wednesday morning that a boy was spotted near Gazgi areas of Khuzdar.

Racism and racial discrimination exercised by Pakistan against Baloch people and Balochistan: Mehran Baluch

Mehran Baluch speech on Racism, racial discrimination and related forms of intolerance at UNHRC

Geneva: Intervention by Mehran Baluch, Baloch Representative to the United Nations Human Rights Council on 11th of June 2013.

34th Meeting 23rd Regular Session of Human Rights Council. 

Item 9: Racism, racial discrimination, Xenophobia and related forms of intolerance: follow-up to and implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action.