State Must Heed Gwadar’s Legitimate Grievances – HRCP

2 January 2023, Lahore. Having closely followed the recent mass demonstrations in Gwadar, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) believes it is now imperative for the state to shed its tacit policy of relegating Balochistan to second-class status.

While HRCP deplores the violence that left one policeman dead during the recent protests, we also urge the provincial government to protect people’s right to freedom of peaceful assembly by refraining from mass arrests and use of force, and focusing instead on more effective methods of crowd control.

Our Degrees Are A Death Warrant For Us: Sadia Baloch

A regional conference was held at the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Saturday during which speakers from Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Maldives spoke on topics ranging from youth politics, communalism, online harassment of women to regional connectivity, flood relief and more.

Organized jointly by AGHS Legal Aid Cell, Voicepk.net and South Asians for Human Rights, the hybrid conference with international speakers joining online was attended by hundreds of students, activists, journalists and lawyers.

The first session, ‘Challenges to youth participation in politics in South Asia’, was moderated by Prof Dr Ammar Ali Jan. Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement chairman Manzoor Pashteen and Baloch human rights activist Sadia Baloch.

April 28: Fallen Defenders of Balochistan

Siddique Eido and Yousaf Nazar

28 April 2011

Thousands of defenders of Baloch nation have perished in Pakistan’s dirty war in Balochistan. Thousands killed and their body dumped, thousands more still suffer in torture cells of Pakistan. Villages bombed and burned their inhabitant forced into becoming internal displaced person (IDP), cities turned into fortress with many check posts surrounding them all this to isolate the Baloch freedom fighters in the mountains.

Activists living in cities of Balochistan are most vulnerable, after the Murgaap incident, in April of 2009, when Pakistani intelligence agency picked up three prominent Baloch leaders Ghulam Mohammed Baloch, Lala Muneer and Sher Mohammed Baloch from their lawyers chamber in Turbat and within days killed them in custody and dumped their bodies in Murgaap it became clear that Baloch activists are not even save within the boundaries of a Pakistani court.

Fallen Defenders of Balochistan

Siddique Eido and Yousaf Nazar

28 April 2011

Thousands of defenders of Baloch nation have perished in Pakistan’s dirty war in Balochistan. Thousands killed and their body dumped, thousands more still suffer in torture cells of Pakistan. Villages bombed and burned their inhabitant forced into becoming internal displaced person (IDP), cities turned into fortress with many check posts surrounding them all this to isolate the Baloch freedom fighters in the mountains.

Activists living in cities of Balochistan are most vulnerable, after the Murgaap incident, in April of 2009, when Pakistani intelligence agency picked up three prominent Baloch leaders Ghulam Mohammed Baloch, Lala Muneer and Sher Mohammed Baloch from their lawyers chamber in Turbat and within days killed them in custody and dumped their bodies in Murgaap it became clear that Baloch activists are not even save within the boundaries of a Pakistani court.

The case of missing persons in Balochistan

Masood Hameed

Salma Bibi, a mother of four, sits in her cramped house on Qambrani Road in Sariab area of Quetta. Her family shares the premises, which has no sanitation facilities or drinking water, with three of her brothers-in-law and their children. Her husband is an auto mechanic who was recently diagnosed with cancer but, she says, they have no money to take him for his treatment. This, however, is not what keeps her up at night.

On October 30, 2017, Salma’s 16-year-old son Bebarg and 17-year-old nephew Shameer were on their way to Government Degree College, Quetta, when armed men in plain clothes arrived in three vehicles and whisked them away. Both teenagers were first-year students.

Wahid Baloch disappearance: Senate body refers case to NCHR after HRCP briefing

Lahore, November 4: The Senate Functional Committee on Human Rights has referred the case of suspected enforced disappearance victim, Abdul Wahid Baloch, to the National Commission on Human Rights (NCHR).

The Senate committee had requested the HRCP team to brief it on a fact-finding conducted in the case by HRCP’s Sindh chapter.

HRCP rally against ‘enforced disappearance’

HYDERABAD: A rally was taken out here on Wednesday to condemn ‘enforced disappearance’ of political, nationalist and other activists in Sindh and for the recovery of a social worker and writer, Wahid Baloch, who is missing after allegedly being picked up by security agencies personnel near Karachi on July 26.

The rally was organised by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) special task force. The participants, who included children of Mr Baloch and activists of several other civil society organisations, marched through the streets of the city after emerging from a locality housing the Radio Pakistan building and converged on the local press club, where they held a demonstration.

‘It is my constitutional right to know my father’s whereabouts’ : Hani Wahid Baloch

A little over 400 people marched in a procession from Regal Chowk to the Karachi Press Club to protest the disappearance of Baloch social activist Wahid Baloch on July 26, 2016.

They carried placards with pictures of the activist and shouted full-throated slogans such as “Wahid Baloch ko baazyab karo” and “Release Baloch and have pity on humanity”.

واحد بلوچ گمشدگی کیس کی ایف آئی آر درج

حسن کاظمی
بی بی سی اردو ڈاٹ کام، کراچیکراچی میں گڈاپ پولیس نے سندھ ہائی کورٹ کے حکم پر بلوچ سماجی کارکن واحد بلوچ گمشدگی کیس میں ایف آئی آر درج کر لی ہے۔یہ مقدمہ واحد بلوچ کی صاحبزادی ہانی بلوچ کی مدعیت میں درج کیا گیا۔٭ سماجی کارکن عبدالواحد بلوچ کی ’جبری گمشدگی‘

اس سے پہلے جسٹس نعمت اللہ ہالیپوٹو کی سربراہی میں قائم سندھ ہائی کورٹ کے دو رکنی بینچ نے پیر کو پولیس کو پابند کیا تھا کہ وہ واحد بلوچ کی گمشدگی کی ایف آئی آر درج کرے تاہم عدالت کی جانب سے تحریری حکم نامہ ملنے میں تاخیر کی وجہ سے منگل کو یہ مقدمہ درج نہیں ہو سکا۔

LEAs may be involved in disappearance of Wahid Baloch: HRCP

KARACHI: The role of law enforcement agencies (LEAs) in the disappearance of publisher and author Abdul Wahid Baloch cannot be ruled out, vice chairperson of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP)’s Sindh chapter, Asad Iqbal Butt, alleged on Monday.

This was the crux of a report prepared by a fact-finding mission formed by the HRCP on Aug 3 after Wahid Baloch was allegedly picked up by two men in plain clothes from a bus at the Super Highway toll plaza on July 26, he said.