Wakeup Lyari : Say No to Gang War

US Baloch to Register Protest Against Rights Violations in Balochistan

Westlake Park

SEATTLE: Members of the Baloch community in the Pacific Northwest region of North America are holding a rally in Seattle at Westlake Park this Sunday 16 Mar 2014, to protest human rights abuses in Balochistan.

Baloch Dorazahi, one of the organizers of the event, said members of the Baloch community from Vancouver city in neighboring Canada will also join them in their protest.

Editorial: Criminal politics in Lyari

Lyari has become a byword in Karachi, and the rest of the country, for places to avoid. The carnage that shook the area on Wednesday exemplified this sentiment. More than 55 people were injured and 16 were killed when rival gangs began armed clashes using heavy weaponry, including Rocket Propelled Grenades (RPGs). School children and women were shot dead on the streets. The police arrived belatedly and were ineffectual. Protests by Lyari residents began yesterday outside the Karachi Press Club, with many holding keys to their locked houses in their hands saying they won’t go home until the Sindh government brings some semblance of law and order to the area. The battle between loyalists of the Baba Ladla and Uzair Baloch gangs was the city’s single bloodiest incident of gang violence in recent years.