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 [...]

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 [...]

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Pakistan’s “anchrocarcy”

By Malik Siraj Akbar
News One, a Pakistani private news channel, invited me last night to speak in one of its one-hour talk shows. The topic of the discussion was Indian’s involvement in Balochistan and the state of security in the province. The reason I agreed to speak in the show, despite knowing that it is [...]

EID MUBARAK to all Baloch Missing Person

Special Thanks to: Baloch Warna Team

بلوچ سیاسی اسیران کی انسانی حقوق کے علمبردار کے نام خط

روزنامہ توار

جب پاکستان کے کسی شہر میں‌کوئی خاوند اپنی بیوی پر تشدد کرتا ہے تو آپ لوگ آسمان سرپر اٹھالیتے ہو لیکن جب پاکستانی فورسز تمپ کے مقام پر ایک پرامن جلوس پر فائرنگ کرکے شاہ ناز بی بی کو گولیوں کا نشانہ بناتی ہیں‌تو ایک بار پھرآپ لوگ مزمتی بیانوں تک محدود ہوجاتے ہو۔

Revisiting the Che Guevara-like days of Baloch resistance movement with Asad Rehman

By Malik Siraj Akbar
Guerilla movements in Balochistan have always been romanticized by young men who aspire to overthrow the domineering elite and bring revolutions. Taking to the hills for the rights of the Baloch fatherland is what has placed many statesmen, kings, governors and princes from Balochistan at irremovable positions in the annals of the [...]

Illegal aduction of Norwegian national Ehsan Arjemandi in Pakistan

Honorary Ambassador,
Honorary Minister of Foreign Affairs,
Kingdom of Norway.
Dated: October 7, 2009
Subject: Illegal aduction of Norwegian national Ehsan Arjemandi in Pakistan
Baloch Human Right Council (BHRC) of Canada would like to bring your attention to a Norwegian national Ehsan Arjemandi who has been disappeared when traveling from Balochistan (Pakistan) to Karachi on Friday 7th of August [...]

Protest meeting in Toronto against the extrajudicial killing and firing on peaceful civilian in Balochistan by Pakistani Army

BALOCH HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL -CANADA
BHRC strongly condemns the brutal terrorism unleashed upon the innocent civilian, mostly women and children by the Pakistan Armed forces in Turbat Balochistan.
BHRC believes that Pakistan Army is persistent to resolve the Baloch Problem through violence and guns rather than negotiation.

National flag of Balochistan

Boots, guns, tanks now come to Daily Balochistan Express/ Azadi

By Malik Siraj Akbar
“I told the forces deployed outside my office that I was a journalist not a “terrorist”,” recalls Rashid Baloch [name changed], a reporter affiliated with Quetta-based daily Balochistan Express. Rashid, 25, was on his way for the morning shift at the newspaper office located a few hundred meters away from the office [...]

Baloch nation condemns vindictiveness against a Baloch journalist

Although upsetting, but not surprising to know that a negative campaign has been launched by some ISI paid Pakistani journalists and some other “ultra-nationalist Punjabi chauvinists” against a prominent Baloch journalist Mr. Malik Siraj Akbar for revealing the truth about Baloch issue in international media.

Daily Asaap closed for good. WHY?

All national and international press clubs and organizations that work for the rights of journalists and believe in freedom of speech are requested to take immediate notice of Daily Asaap’s closure.

Malik Siraj Akbar Bureau Chief DT threatened over publication of article in Times of India

Comment by Malik Siraj Akbar (August 17, 2009)
My recent article, A Home Grown Conflict, was published in the Times of India on August 11, 2009. In this write-up I have argued that the Balochistan conflict is a purely indigenous one rather than being ignited by India.

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Shaheed Abdul Majeed Baloch who paid the ultimate price for Liberation movement

When the prime minister of Pakistan Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto feared that the first elected government of Balochistan is educating the Baluch masses about the rights and how they had intentionally been kept backward by Pakistani imperialists then the so called first elected democratic Prime minister of Pakistan illegally dismissed the government of Baluchistan on 13 [...]

Light a Candle for Baluchistan

غلام بلوچ: ’بلوچوں کا غریب ہیرو‘

یہ چودہ اگست دو ہزار آٹھ کا دن تھا۔ بلوچستان کے ضلع تربت میں غلام محمد بلوچ اپنے ساتھیوں کے ہمراہ پریس کانفرنس کررہے تھے کہ اس وقت انہیں گرفتار کرنے کے لیے سکیورٹی فورسز کے چند اہلکار پہنچ گئے۔اہلکار ابھی ان کی جانب بڑھ ہی رہے تھے کہ وہاں موجود بلوچ خواتین نے کھڑے [...]

Pakistan violation of human rights

Instead of redressing Baloch grievances Pakistani rogue state is implementing its policy of state terrorism in Balochistan.
Waajah Ghulam Mohammad Baloch and his friends have been arrested again by ISI and kept in a secret military torture cell.
Baloch human rights activists in North America and Europe bring Pakistan’s violation of human rights to the notice of [...]