QUETTA: Zakir Majeed Baloch’s sister on Sunday demanded of human rights groups to take notice of the ‘enforced disappearance’ of her missing brother.
Addressing a press conference at the Quetta Press Club, she said Zakir Majeed Baloch, Senior Vice Chairman of BSO (Baloch Students Organisation) Azaad, was picked up by intelligence agencies on June 8, 2009 [...]
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January 5, 2010
Zakir Majeed Baloch’s sister demands brother’s recovery
January 2, 2010
Analysis: Balochistan – Ground Zero
By Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
Figures prove that Balochistan has perpetually suffered from neglect and wilful attempts to keep it in a state of deprivation. Blaming Sardars for obstructing development cuts no ice because the areas under the government’s writ haven’t prospered either
Balochistan is virtually ‘Ground Zero’ because the political, social, economic and military policies there [...]
December 31, 2009
Third martyrdom anniversary of Shaheed Asad Marri observed
Quetta: BSO (azaad) Lasbela zone has held the third martyrdom anniversary of Shaheed Asad Marri here on Tuesday. One minute silence has been observed in the memory of Baloch martyrs and Baloch National anthem was played to began the proceedings of the memorial gathering. Newly elected president of BSO azaad Lasbela zone Masood Baloch, secretary [...]
December 31, 2009
Families of Baloch missing persons hold demo
QUETTA – Families of Baloch missing persons staged a protest rally on Tuesday to agitate on the disappearance of their relatives on the eve of Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani’s two-day long visit to Balochistan’s coastal town of Gwadar.
December 28, 2009
Analysis: Forced or volitional?
By Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
The problem of missing persons and torture is not a new phenomenon here. It has been practiced against dissidents the establishment felt threatened by, with varying degrees of brutality and gruesomeness. Balochistan has had more than a fair share of disappeared persons
“Speech is silver but silence is golden” is an adage [...]
December 23, 2009
خوابیدہ ضمیر کا ماتم – حفیظ حسن آبادی
ایک ہفتے میںدو بلوچ سیاسی شخصیتوںکی طرف سے دو ایسے بیانات آئے ہیں کہ انہیںپڑھ کر کلیجہ پھٹنے لگتا ہے۔ وزیراعلٰی اسلم رئیسانی نے کہا ہے کہ تمام الزامات خفیہ اداروںپر نہ تھوپنے جائیں کیونکہ یہ گمشدگان ان کے قبضے میںنہیں ہیں بلکہ یہ لوگ خود اپنی مرضی سے غائب ہوئے ہیں۔ دوسرے بیان میںحاصل [...]
December 23, 2009
بل نگور:عوام کا انقلابی قدم، منشیات کے اڈوں پر حملے، 5 بیوپاری پولیس کے حوالے
ڈیلی توار
December 18, 2009
Baloch journalist held under terrorism charges
The Baloch Hal Editorial
Implicating political opponents and dissenting journalists in cases of ’sedition’ and ‘terrorism’ are two old-fashioned but regular tactics applied by governments. Such tools have been applied across the world, mainly in repressive regimes, in an effort to muzzle nonconforming opinion and put the key detractors of the ruling elite behind bars.
December 16, 2009
Not a responsible state
By I.A. Rehman
WHAT is common to the murder most foul of Nisar Baloch, denial of security to schools and increase in postal charges? Terrorism? No. Disorder? Again, no! The correct answer is: the rise of an irresponsible state.
Nisar Baloch had signed his own death warrant the day he decided to stand up to Karachi’s notorious [...]
December 16, 2009
‘Missing’ Baloch journalist found in police custody
By Malik Siraj Akbar
QUETTA: Police said on Tuesday they had arrested a Bolan-based journalist under the Explosives Act.
Rehmatullah Shaheen, a correspondent of a Baloch nationalist newspaper, Daily Tawar, “went missing” on December 8. The newspaper is believed to be the mouthpiece of Baloch militants. Shaheen’s family and journalist bodies protested across Balochistan against his disappearance. [...]
December 14, 2009
BRP launches student wing in all provinces to demand rights
LAHORE: The Baloch Republican Party (BRP) has activated its students’ wing in Punjab, Sindh and the NWFP to provide a platform for raising the voice for the rights of the Baloch population in the provinces. Party sources told Daily Times on Sunday that the BRP had changed its strategy in order to make the government [...]
December 12, 2009
Comrade Abdul Ghafar Langou Baloch abducted from Karachi
Karachi: Balochwarna has learnt that Comrade Abdul Ghaffar Langou Baloch has been abducted from a hospital in Karachi. Sources close to Mr Langou said that he was in Karachi for his wife’s treatment. Earlier today (11-12-2009) the personal of Pakistani intelligence agencies have abducted him from the hospital & and shifted towards unknown location. His [...]
