Monthly Archives: November 2011
Dec 1: Martyrs of Turbat
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Baloch Genocide continues: Two more Baloch missing persons Killed and Dump
Occupied Balochistan: Two bodies found on 23 November 2011 from Mand near the mountain of Shiraz have been identified as Jalil Ahmed Reki Baloch and Mohammed Younis Baloch.
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Bodies of three Baloch abducted persons found
Occupied Balochistan: Three brutally tortured bodies of Baloch missing persons have been found from two different areas of Balochistan, on Saturday and Sunday mornings.
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Pakistani Journalist Given U.S. Asylum Tells of Threats, Disappearances in Baluchistan
By Pamela Constable
Siraj Ahmed Malik, an ambitious young Pakistani journalist, was enjoying a stint last fall on a fellowship at the University of Arizona when he started getting chilling messages from home.One after another, his friends and colleagues were disappearing, he learned, and their bodies were turning up with bullet holes and burn marks. A doctor’s son from his home town was arrested and vanished. A fellow reporter was kidnapped, and his corpse was found near a river. A student leader was detained, and his bullet-riddled body dumped on a highway. A writer whose stories Malik had edited was shot and killed.
“These were kids I had played cricket with, people I had interviewed, younger reporters I had taught,” Malik, 28, said in an interview last week in Arlington County, where he now lives. The final straw came in early June, when one of his mentors, a poet and scholar, was gunned down in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan, Malik’s native province.On Aug. 19, Malik applied for political asylum in the United States. In his petition, he said that his work as a journalist and ethnic activist in Baluchistan, where he had exposed military abuses, made him likely to be arrested, tortured, abducted and “ultimately killed by the government” if he returned.Two weeks ago, his petition was granted. It was a highly unusual decision by U.S. immigration officials, given Pakistan’s status: a strategic partner in Washington’s war against Islamic terrorism; a longtime recipient of U.S. aid; and a democracy with an elected civilian government and vibrant national news media.
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