HRCP’s concern over missing BSO-Azad chairperson

Lahore, April 29: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed serious alarm at the disappearance of Baloch Student Organisation-Azad (BSO-Azad) chairman Zahid Baloch who was picked up in Quetta last month and demanded his safe and immediate release.

In a statement on Tuesday, the Commission said: “HRCP is seriously concerned over the case of Zahid Baloch who was picked up in Quetta on March 18 by plainclothesmen believed to be from security agencies. Even more disturbing is his unacknowledged detention for over a month now.

29 April – Remembrance day for victims of Chemical Warfare

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BHRC Appeals for International Solidarity to Save Zahid Baloch, Leader BSO (Azad)

Rich Tribute Paid to Martyrs on the 89^th Year of Iranian Occupation of Al-Ahwaz

Toronto, April 26, 2014 – Ahwazi Democratic Popular Front held a gathering in Toronto to commemorate the 89^th year of Iranian occupation of Al-Ahwaz. The meeting at the North York Centre was attended by a diverse group of people belonging to the non-Persian nationalities under Iranian occupation. A large number of Al-Ahwazi Arabs, Azeri Turks, Turkoman, Palestinians, Lebanese, Sindhis and Baloch participated to express their commitment and solidarity with the independence struggle of Al-Ahwaz and nations under foreign occupation.

Open Letter Demanding The Release of Baloch Missing Persons

by  Mir Muhammad Ali Talpur, Tariq Ali, Noam Chomsky, Ayesha Siddiqa, Mohammad Hanif…

On March 18th, 2014 around 5:00 pm in Quetta, Zahid Baloch chairperson of Baloch Student Organization– Azad (BSO-A), was abducted at gun point. Banuk Karima, vice chairperson of BSO-A, witnessed the abduction. She notes, ‘Pakistan’s secret agencies and security forces abducted Zahid Baloch, I along with three other members of BSO-A witnessed the abduction. We are deeply concerned about his safety and feel that his life is under serious threat. Zahid Baloch is not the only missing Baloch.

VBMP urges International Community to raise voice against enforced-disappearances in Balochistan

Zahid Kurd has been subjected to brutal torture on the spot being taken away: VBMP

BALOCHISTAN: The Voice for Baloch Missing Persons leaders including Chairman Nasrullah Baloch, Vice Chairman Abdul Qadeer Baloch and General Secretary Farzana Majeed Baloch have urged Amnesty International, European Union, UN and other international Human Rights bodies to take to notice of enforced disappearances in Balochistan.

The VBMP leader said that Pakistani forces illegally abducted 19200 Baloch activists and more than 2000 among them have been killed and dump. “We have given proof and the documents about enforced-disappearances in Balochistan to UN representatives in Islamabad,” they said.

BHRC-Canada Meets Canadian MP Bob Dechert to Save Zahid Baloch, Chairman BSO-Azad

Toronto, April 24, 2014: A joint delegation of oppressed nations of Iran met Canadian lawmaker, Honourable Bob Dechert for a briefing on gross human rights violations committed by the theocratic regime against people of Al-Ahwaz, Turkmenistan, South Azerbaijan and Balochistan.

Representatives of Ahwazi Democratic Popular Front, South Azerbaijan Independence Party, Turkoman freedom movement and Baloch Human Rights Council (Canada) were present at the meeting.

Latif Johar’s appeal to the World

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April 27: Shaheed Nazar Jan Mohammadshai

For Pakistan’s Baloch, ‘tomorrow, anything can happen’

Xari Jalil

KARACHI: “We are students. Our weapons are pens and books,” says Latif Johar. He is sitting at a protest camp outside the Karachi Press Club, on a hunger strike till death, unless his missing party leader Zahid Baloch is returned.

“We do not believe in violence. We believe in fighting for our rights through democratic political means,” he says.

پاکستانی بلوچ کے ساتھ کل کچھ بھی ہو سکتا ہے

I am on hunger strike till death – Latif Johar

I am a student. Studying, writing, learning, exploring are my hobbies. But all this has become impossible for me, thanks to Pakistan. My friends disappear and end up dead dumped on empty street-sides with blood-curdling scars on their bodies. My schools and colleges are turned into cozy military barracks. Uniformed men with guns round the playgrounds where school kids would circle not so long ago. Libraries closed and librarians ‘missing’, they say.

Despite all this, I choose a difficult path of peaceful struggle rather than picking up a gun. I look at the world with hopeful eyes but in vain. Nobody seems to be caring. What should I do? Where should I go?