Monthly Archives: November 2018
Nov 07: Shaheed Nisar Hussain Baloch
Filed under Baloch Vanguards
Return From a Pakistani Military Dungeon
Thousands of people have been “disappeared” in Pakistan. And for those who reappear, life is never the same.
By Shah Meer Baloch and Rabia Bugti
KARACHI, PAKISTAN — This is a tale of every missing person who has borne the brunt of torture in a detention center.
The torture is meant to be painful but more painful and damaging is the psychological effect on the missing persons and their family members. The experience damages them mentally and reshapes their personalities.
Filed under Interviews and Articles
The mysterious case of land acquisitions in Balochistan
According to a high court lawyer based in Turbat, land acquisition by an institution of the state becomes legal only if it follows the laid down official procedures. No other process, however elaborate it may be, makes it legal.
Maqbool Ahmed
Mir Ibrahim Bizenjo owns land – a huge amount of it – in various parts of the coastal district of Gwadar. He also owns a lot of large motorised fishing boats — some registered in Pakistan, others in Oman across the Arabian Sea from Pakistan’s Makran coast.
And he has a business partner, Mir Imam Bizenjo, who is known as far as the United States. The two are related too: Ibrahim Bizenjo’s son Charagh is married to Imam Bizenjo’s daughter.
Filed under Interviews and Articles, Reports