Enforced Disappearances: Pakistan refusing visa to Asian team

“Zakir Majeed’s mother is going on hunger strike from one city to another, but the authorities are not ltelling her where her son is and whether he is aliveor dead,” the A.F.B. worker said.

By Ahmar Mustikhan

WASHINGTON, DC: Pakistan is dragging its feet on issuing visa to the Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances [AFAD] to go to Pakistan and meet with family members of the victims in Balochistan and elsewhere.

This was stated Saturday evening by Mary Aileen D. Bacalso, secretary-general of the AFAD, at the Lafayette Park in front of the White House where the Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition International held its annual camp in solidarity with the torture victims around the world to mark the international day against torture.

Rogue state of Pakistan violating Western laws, says A.F.B

GENEVA, JUNE 16: A Balochistan independence worker warned the Western world and the Baloch Diaspora about rogue state of Pakistan and some roguish elements masquerading as Baloch activists who are hell bent upon damaging the Baloch fight for peace, justice and liberty.

Addressing a Press conference in the presence of Mehran Baluch, Baloch people’s representative at the U.N. Human Rights Council at the Geneva Press Club here on Wednesday morning, Ahmar Mustikhan, founder of the American Friends of Balochistan blasted Pakistan intelligence services for shadowing and hounding Baloch independence activists in spite of the freedoms of the West.

Mustikhan also cautioned the Baloch Diaspora against the Fifth Column in their rank whose loyalties are unclear and whose main task seems to be confusing the international movement for the liberation of Balochistan.

Following is the full text of Mustikhan’s speech:

Pakistan, Iran carrying out massive genocide, says Noordin Mengal

Noordin Mengal

GENEVA, June 16, 2010: A young Baloch human rights activist in London and Geneva accused Islamabad and Teheran of carrying out a genocide of the Baloch people.

Noordin Mengal, a grandson of Balochistan independence leader Baba-i-Azadi Nawab Khair Baksh Marri, who is also a grandson of former chief minister and nationalist leader Sardar Ataullah Mengal,
said Balochistan was once a unified and independent country is today divided between three countries — Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Hear the wails of Zakir Majeed’s mother, AFB urges UN bodies

GENEVA, June 14, 2010: The U.S based American Friends of Balochistan repeated its call for direct talks with Baloch leaders in the backdrop of the liberation struggle in Occupied Balochistan.

Baloch Missing Person

Founder of the A.F.B., Ahmar Mustikhan narrated the ordeal of the affected families of the enforced and involuntarily disappeared Baloch freedom workers and activists and urged the international community to come to their rescue.

13th session of the U.N. Human Rights Council – Geneva

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• UNPO address human rights in Pakistan at the UN

Protest against killing of Baluch by the Pakistani state, terror party

Martyrs of Karachi

American Friends of Baluchistan
–Liberation is a fundamental right of every nation

WHAT: Please join Baluch, Sindhi, Pashtun in protest against the terrorism unleashed by the Pakistani state and Muttahida Qaumi Movement (M.Q.M.) of fugitive terrorist Altaf Hussain on the Baluch people in Pakistan.

Baluchistan and the Af/Pak War

An Interview with Ahmar Mustikhan

By STEWART J. LAWRENCE

Ahmar Khan

US news reports about the widening war in the “Af-Pak” region have made increasing reference to the presence of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Baluchistan, a Texas-sized swath of territory located in southern Pakistan.  Yet Americans remain surprisingly unaware that Baluchistan is home to an insurgent movement that is not aligned with either Al-Qaeda or the Taliban and that has fought for national independence from Pakistan for more than 60 years.  In this exclusive interview conducted on December 27, noted Pakistani Baluch journalist, Ahmar Mustikhan, founder and director of the American Friends of Baluchistan, spoke with me about the current regional conflict and about Baluchistan’s appeal to the West for military and diplomatic support for its struggle.

Baluchistan International Conference

November 21-22, 2009 Washington DC

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ANNOUNCEMENT

BHRC-Canada will be attending Baloch International Conference in DC

A high delegation team will be attending Baloch International Conference being held in Washington DC on November 21 and 22.  The Canadian team will be comprised of Baloch from both Eastern and Western Balochistan. BHRC is requesting all the peace loving, secular, democrats and progressive people to come and joined hand and make this an historical event.

The conference has been organized by the American Friends of Balochistan to highlight Baloch issues in Eastern and Western Baluchistan and to pay tributes to slain Baloch freedom fighter Nawabzada Balaach Marri, 41, an elected member of the Baluchistan state assembly and son of legendary Baloch leader Nawab Khair Bakhsh Marri.

Sincerely,
BHRC-Canada