Either Tweedledum or Tweedledee – Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur

Extra earning as protection money is in fact just a more respectable name for the ugly word ‘extortion’

During the Senate session on August 3, Senator Usman Kakar of the Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party initiated debate on a motion on an agreement signed between the Frontier Corps (FC) and the lease owners of coalmines in Harnai and the imposition of a tax on the latter by the FC. He accused the FC of “interfering in provincial autonomy by intruding in the affairs of the Balochistan government” and added that though the Chief Minister (CM) Dr Malik had declared the agreement “illegal” the FC was still collecting Rs 220 as protection money per tonne of coal. Farhatullah Babar of the PPP alleged that the FC was disobeying the directives of the provincial government and taking “extra-constitutional steps”. He also called for action against the FC officers who had been named by relatives of missing persons in the courts.

Germany: BNM protest against #AwaranOperation

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Hamburg, Germany: Baloch Nation Movement (BNM) Germany zone held a protest demonstration at Hamburg city hall, Germany today on 9 August 2015. A large number of Baloch activists participated in the demonstration and expressed their anger against Pakistani state, which is committing atrocity against the Baloch populace.

The participants were carrying placards in which one read “Awaran is Kobani”. BNM also distributed a pamphlet written in German among the observing public.

بھارت کا بلوچوں کو مدد کرنے کے الزامات کبھی ثابت نہیں ہوئے

بلوچ سیاسی مدبر و دانشور میر محمد علی ٹالپر سے خصوصی انٹرویو

تاریخ اشاعت: 22 جولائی 2015

انٹرویو: اے گنیش نڈار

ترجمہ: لطیف بلیدی

’پاکستان نے بلوچ خواہشات اور حقوق کو دبانے کیلئے طاقت کا استعمال کیا ہے۔ وہاں حقوق اور مراعات اور پیکیجز دینے کے ڈرامے ہوتے رہے ہیں، لیکن سب کے سب کھوکھلے اور بے معنی رہے ہیں اور یہ اس کاغذ کے بھی مستحق نہیں ہیں جن پر انہیں لکھا جاتا ہے۔‘