Baloch people have a right to self-determination: US lawmaker

Washington: Voicing concern over the alleged human rights violations in Pakistan’s Balochistan province, a top US lawmaker has said that Baloch people have a right to self-determination.

“This abysmal human rights record of the Pakistani government is shameful. It is even worse because American foreign and military aid contributes to strengthening the security forces which kill innocent Balochis. The Baloch people have a right to self-determination and not to live under the control of Islamabad, if they choose,” Congressman Dana Rohrabacher said in his remarks in the US House of Representatives on Friday.

Mehran Baloch speak at United Nations HR council 14-09-2012

Item 3: (General Debate) Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development

ITEM 3: INTERVENTION BY MEHRAN BALUCH

Honorable President,

At the very outset allow me to thank the members of the U.N. Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearance, led by Rapporteur chair Professor Olivier de Frouville and Professor Osman El-Hajje, who are on a 10-day fact finding mission to Pakistan, with special focus on Balochistan. Balochistan, as many in this council are fully aware, is today the world capital of enforced disappearances.

These enforced disappearances in Balochistan pose the most serious challenge to the rights and freedoms promised by the U.N. to peoples of the world under Item 3.

UN should take practical steps in Balochistan – BSO-Azad

Baloch Student’s Organization (Azad)’s spokesperson in a released statement stated that United Nation’s working group after being aware of Pakistan’s atrocities in Balochistan should use UN’s mandate in accordance with the International Laws, to take practical steps to end such atrocities and the occupation of Balochistan by Pakistan, instead of asking Pakistan’s state organs to take any steps by themselves.

Bullet riddled body found in Quetta,while another shod dead by FC

Occupied Balochistan:Bullet-ridden body of a Baloch man, abducted from Dera Bugti, was found in Quetta while another man was shot dead by FC in Patfidar area of Sui, Balochistan.

According to details on Tuesday (25 September 2012) a patrolling team of FC was attacked near Patfidar Canal area of Dera Bugti to which the FC has retaliated killing one person and arresting two others. The deceased was identified as Asghar Bugti but the names of the arrested men could not be ascertained immediately. The victims have been shifted to an undisclosed location for interrogation.

احساسِ افتادگی و ناامیدی تبصرہ : میر محمد علی ٹالپر ترجمہ: لطیف بلیدی

ڈبلیو جی ای آئی ڈی نے واضح طور پر کہا کہ ان کا ”حقائق جاننے والا“ مشن فقط ”انسانی“ بنیادوں پر مبنی تھا اور انہیں کسی طور سے بھی ثبوت جمع کرنے کا کام نہیں سونپا گیا

اقوام متحدہ کا ورکنگ گروپ برائے جبری یا غیر رضاکارانہ گمشدگیاں (ڈبلیو جی ای آئی ڈی)، جوکہ چیئرپرسن اولیویئر ڈی فراو ولے اور عثمان ال حجے پر مشتمل تھا، اپنے دس روزہ باضابطہ دورے کے اختتام پر انہوں نے ایک مختصر رپورٹ میں اپنے خیالات کا اظہار کیا۔ انہوں نے تکلیف دہ انداز میں بلوچستان اور دیگر مقامات میں لاپتہ افراد کی حالت زار پر زور دیا کہ، ”زیادہ تر خاندانوں، کہ جن سے ہم ملے ہیں، اپنی کہانیاں بتاتے، افتادگی اور ناامیدی کے احساس میں مبتلا ہیں۔“ وہ خاندان صرف اسی طرح ہی محسوس کرسکتے ہیں جنکے لاپتہ رشتہ داروں کو ریاست کی طرف سے ’غیر رضاکارنہ طور پر غائب‘ کردیا گیا ہو اور جن کیلئے انصاف مہیا ہونے کا کوئی ذریعہ نہ ہو، کیونکہ کوئی بھی ادارہ، یہاں تک کہ اگر وہ چاہے تو تب بھی، اتنا طاقتور یا بے دھڑک اقدام اٹھانے والا نہیں ہے کہ وہ ’جبری اور غیر رضاکارانہ طور پر گمشدگیوں‘ کے ذمہ داران کو چیلنج کرسکے۔

Balochistan’s missing persons studied by UN working group

As a separatist movement simmers in Balochistan, more and more are disappearing. The UN is now investigating.

By Suzanna Koster 

Farzana Majeed Baloch with Zakir Majeed’s picture

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — Farzana Majeed Baloch, 27, has been going from pillar to post to get her missing brother back. She went to the police, press clubs and the court. She held a hunger strike, called human rights organizations and even the federal interior ministry. But she has heard nothing.

“No institution was ready to hear me. Even the Supreme Court failed,” she told Global Post.

A colleague of her brother’s told Farzana that he witnessed security forces at a checkpoint whisk her brother and another friend away in 2009. She believes her brother is now in a detention centre in Quetta, the capital of Pakistan’s largest province, Balochistan.