Body of a Baloch youth recovered from Dera Allah Yar has been recognised as Khoda Dad Marri

BALOCHISTAN: The body of a young man who had torture marks was found by a patrolling police party in Dera Allah Yar area of Jaffarabad district in Balochistan on Monday(1 July 2013) morning.

According to sources the body has now been identified as that of Khoda Dad Marri alias Abdullah. Victim who currently resided in Karachi was originally from Kohistan Marri and a permanent resident of New Kahan Quetta.

BRP Sweden held a seminar to highlight Human Rights abuses in Balochistan

Sweden, Gothenburg: Baloch Republican Party Sweden chapter held a seminar in Gothenburg city on June 30th against the Baloch genocide, military operations, state atrocities, human rights violations, enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings of innocent Baloch civilians by the Pakistani forces in Balochistan. The party members highlighted the illegal occupation of Balochistan, war crimes against the Baloch people and Baloch nation’s struggle for restoration of a free and democratic state of Balochistan.

Ms Maria Ryden, the deputy mayor of Gothenburg and a human rights advocate also participated in the seminar and condemned the gross human rights abuses by the state forces in Balochistan. She expressed solidarity with the victims of state terrorism and said that Sweden has a very strong stance over the violations of Human Rights anywhere in the world.

JSMM invites Sindhi-, Urdu-speaking people to public meeting

HYDERABAD: Leaders of the banned Jeay Sindh Muttahida Mahaz (JSMM) have warned that the nationalist party will show its political power on roads and streets after drawing a roadmap for political and national struggle in consultation with Sindh’s intellectuals if rulers do not put an end to loot and plunder of historic rights of oppressed nations.

Speaking at a press conference at the press club here on Monday, head of JSMM coordination committee Mohammad Rahimoon and committee members Hafeez Sindhi and Asif Joono invited Sindhi- and Urdu-speaking people to attend the party’s public meeting scheduled for July 6 in the city.

JSQM protests against ‘Punjab’s unfair policies’

HYDERABAD: Reanimating the old friction between Punjab and Sindh over control of natural and financial resources, the Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz started a series of protests against the country’s bigger province on Monday.

“The way Punjab is making Sindh financially and economically weaker, we will do the same with it,” said Dr Niaz Kalani, the party’s vice chairman who was leading hundreds of protesters.

We’d rather die than be with Pakistan – Mehran Baluch

Europe, July 01: The destruction of Ziarat Residency, the last resting place for Pakistan’s founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah, by the Balochistan Liberation Army or BLA on June 15 is a clear reflection of the fact that anti-Pakistan sentiments are growing among the Baloch. The BLA even managed to remove the national flag at the Ziarat Residency and replace it with their own ensign.