May 01: International Labour Day

Who is knocking the Door?

“Pakistan army enjoys the largest sum of GDP in the name of defence; However, could not protect us from a unleashed bands of thugs” – Jalila Haider

Ali Asghar

After 2004 Quetta carnage  when Ashura procession was attacked which left 50 dead and more than 100 wounded (all of victims were from Hazara community), once again Hazara community in Balochistan came under intensive attacks in 2011 apparently by Sunni extremist groups Lashkar-e- Jangvi, and its affiliates which enjoy the backing of Pakistan Army. In reaction of incessant killings of their loved ones, Hazaras  set in a protest at Quetta with their corpses and refused to bury the dead bodies till the government wouldn’t arrest  the culprits and provide them justice. Ironically, then Chief Minister of Balochistan Aslam Raissani commented, “ what can I do, to provide you trucks load of tissue papers to wipe yours tears.” perhaps his remarks was a laughing stock for Pakistani media and its  viewers, in reality Raissani  meant more than that— a clear message to tell that civilian government was acting as a puppet that threads were being pulled somewhere else – General Headquarters (GHQ).

29 April – Remembrance day for victims of Chemical Warfare

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April 27: Shaheed Nazar Jan Mohammadshai

April 24: Sabeen Mahmud #UnsilencingBalochistan

April 21: Martyred Grooms of Gwarjak, Balochistan

In the early hours of 21 April 2015 Pakistan army raids the village of Gwarjak in Mahskay Balochistan. Harass and brutally beats up women and children and abduct seven young men including three newly-wed grooms. In the afternoon the Levies Tehseeldar (local police inspector) receives a call from Pakistan Army Camp that they have killed four Baloch rebels in an encounter. So come here and collect the bodies.

In fact all four of them were abducted, extremely tortured and extra-judicially executed in the Pakistan Army Camp. It is note worthy that all four were closely related to Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF) commander Sheh Akhtar Nadeem. Basit Baloch was his brother; Aijaz and Aftab were his cousins as well as brothers in law; Shahnawaz was a close relative. Basit, Aijaz and Shahnawaz were newly-wed grooms.This is how Pakistan Army is committing and justifying Baloch genocide in the enlightened age of 21st Century.

All India Baloch Conference Jacobabad

(28, 29, and 30th December 1932)

Note

Our generation has been listening about “Balochistan and All India Baloch Conference” of Jacobabad since our childhood. All of our lives we have been curious about its resolutions, elected cabinet and the next conference in Hyderabad.

In recent years we were fortunate enough to be able to read all about this conference both in Urdu and English in various books and magazines. We got the photocopies of the original document which was circulating amongst the academia. Then, the verified copy was published in a research paper of renowned scholar, Dr Inam ul Haq Kausar (Yousuf Aziz Magsi, Balochistan Review – Vol XII-XIII, 2004, UoB Quetta Pp. 133-140). We compared this document with its Urdu version, and found it correct. Some minor spelling mistakes in the names of the individuals are corrected.

آل انڈیا بلوچ کانفرنس ۔۔۔۔ ڈاکٹر شاہ محمدمری

ایسا لگتا ہے کہ کانفرنس کے منتظمین ،سرداروں کی شرکت کے بارے میں حتمی طور پرمایوس ہوتے جارہے تھے۔ اندازہ اس بات سے ہوتا ہے کہ ذرا سا کسی نے آنے کا عندیہ دیا تو کانفرنس والوں نے جھٹ اُسے اپنے اخبار ’’البلوچ‘‘ میں چھاپ دیا: ’’آج سردار بہادر سردار محمد بہرام خان تمندار ہڑی(لہڑی؟) آف بلوچستان کا مراسلہ آل انڈیا بلوچ کانفرنس کی تائید وشمولیت کے لیے موصول ہو کر باعث بلند حوصلگی ہوا ۔ سردار بہادر کے یہ الفاظ سنہری حروف سے لکھنے کے قابل ہیں کہ :

’’خدا وند تعالی سے التجا ہے کہ اس قوم کو جوتا ریکی میں ہے ، نیک راستہ پر لا کر اُن کو آئندہ حیات سے متمتع کرے ۔ کیونکہ آج کل ہماری قوم کی حالت ناگفتہ بہ ہے ۔ امید ہے کہ ایک عمدہ راستہ نکل آئے گا۔ خدا اپنے بندوں کو توفیق دے‘‘

Balochistan: Female educationist forcibly evicted from her house

BALOCHISTAN: The Pakistani police have forcibly evicted a female educationist from her house on Sunday in the city of Quetta – the capital of Balochistan.

Sources reported that the police raided the house of Prof. Dr Shagufta Iqbal in her absence and tried to arrest her son. The police barged into her house without any search warrant and threatened her children before throwing her belongings outside.

Is PTM an ‘engineered protest’?

You should always keep in your mind what Friedrich Nietzsche has said is the defining quality of great men; he says, “It is not the strength but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men”.

Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur

The statement from the Chief of the Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa said on April 12 that “engineered protests” would not be allowed to reverse the gains of counterterrorism operations and cautioned the nation against forgetting sacrifices of “real heroes”. He, without naming the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM), blamed it as something which was not indigenous but was being supported and guided by the usual suspects they have been accusing of guiding and supporting the Baloch (and the Bengalis in the past) for protesting against the injustices and the state terror being perpetrated against them.