Tribute to Banuk Karima

Following is the English version of the full text of Mir Mohammed Ali Talpur’s speech he had given at the seminar on Banuk Karima 2^nd death anniversary organized by Baloch Yekjehti Committee at Quetta Press Club on 21 December 2022.   

My Respected Fellow Travelers my Salam to you all.

Some people in history and movements come to represent not only the movements they are associated with but leave an enduring and unforgettable legacy behind that encourages others to follow their footsteps to take humanity forward on towards the goals of a dignified life of respect, equality and freedom.

Banuk Karima was such a person because she not only was a political and a social activist she was the pioneer for women’s participation in politics of resistance in Balochistan where women though held in respect and dignity were hesitant to participate in politics; it was Banuk Karima who blazed the trail and opened up the closed paths for women participation in politics of resistance and it is for this reason that Baloch women and men feel that her death anniversary on 21^st December is the most appropriate date to celebrate and observe “Baloch Women’s Day” as a mark of respect for her work and dedication.

بانک کریمہ کو خراج تحسین

مستونگ واقعہ میں ڈاکٹر منان بلوچ اور ساتھیوں کی شہادت پر ، چیئرمین بی این ایم خلیل بلوچ کی پریس کانفرنس

کوئٹہ (سنگر نیوز)بلوچ نیشنل موؤمنٹ کے مرکزی چےئرمین خلیل بلوچ نے مستونگ واقعہ میں پارٹی کے مرکزی سیکریٹری جنرل ڈاکٹر منان بلوچ اور ساتھیوں کی شہادت پر کوئٹہ پریس کلب میں پریس کانفرنس جسے کوئٹہ پارٹی کی خواتین رہنماؤں نے پڑھ کر پیش کیا اور کاپیاں پریس کلب میں پیش کیں ۔ہمیں انتہائی افسوس کیساتھ کہنا پڑ رہا ہے کہ بلوچستان کے ایک انتہائی قابل سیاسی استاد، باصلاحیت سیاسی کارکن، بلوچ نیشنل موومنٹ کے مرکزی سکریٹری جنرل ڈاکٹر منّان بلوچ گذشتہ روز پاکستانی سیکیورٹی فورسز کے غیر انسانی آپریشن میں ہم سے جدا کردئے گئے۔ ہفتہ 30جنوری 2016کی صبح پاکستانی فوج اور دوسرے ریاستی فورسز نے بلوچستان کے علاقہ مستونگ کلی دتو میں بی این ایم کے کارکن اشرف بلوچ اور حنیف بلوچ کے گھر پر حملہ کیا، گھروں کو لوٹا، اور گھر میں موجود بی این ایم کے مرکزی رہنما ڈاکٹر منان بلوچ، بی این ایم کے کارکن اشرف بلوچ، حنیف بلوچ، ساجد بلوچ اور بابو نوروز بلوچ کو بے رحمی سے شہید کیا۔( آپ صحافی گواہ ہیں کہ ہم نے ڈاکٹر منان بلوچ کے کئی پریس کانفرنس بی این ایم کی طرف سے اسی پریس کلب میں پڑھ کر بیان کی ہیں، مگر کل صوبائی وزیر داخلہ انہیں بی ایل ایف کا سربراہ اور انکاؤنٹر میں مارنے کا ڈرامہ پیش کرکے اس قتل کو جائز قرار دینے کی کوشش کر رہے ہیں۔ اس پر آپ حضرات کی لب کشائی کا خواہاں ہیں، تاکہ آپ کا فرض ادا ہو، اور شاید آئندہ سیاسی لیڈر اور کارکن ریاست کے اس شر سے بچ سکیں۔)

Balochistan: 157 mutilated bodies found and 463 abducted 2015: VBMP

QUETTA: The Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP) has said on Friday that approximately 463 people were forcefully disappeared while 157 mutilated bodies were found from Balochistan in 2015.

Nasrullah Baloch, Chairman of VBMP, made these revelation in Press Conference at Quetta Press Club. Voice for Baloch Missing Persons is a human rights organisation representing the families of abducted Baloch persons all over Balochistan.

Quetta press club faces threats over Christian journalists

Four members accused of working against Islam

BALOCHISTAN: A militant group in Pakistan’s restive Baluchistan province has threatened a press club with “action” unless it expels its Christian journalists, club authorities said.

Fidayan-e-Islam, a little-known militant group, sent a letter to the Quetta Press Club on Saturday 14 Feb 2015, accusing Christian journalists of preaching Christianity through an unnamed TV channel.

“You call yourself faithful Muslims, while under your watch Christian journalists are working against Islam,” the letter, written in the Urdu language, stated.

Pressurising tactics: Security agencies tried to abduct my brother in Quetta: Nasrullah Baloch

Speaking at Quetta press Club, Nasuralla said the secret security agencies abducted his younger brother Samiullah Baloch at Shahwani Road Quetta but luckily he made a successful escape after the agencies car stopped at due to traffic jam.

He said: My younger brother was walking on Shawani road in Quetta when the armed men of secret agencies whisked him and put him in their vain but, because of the traffic jam he jumped off the vehicle and escaped from the brutal clutches of the agencies.” He said his brother brutally beaten up while by the security agencies in their car.

‘Long march’ for the missing

by Amanullah Kasi

QUETTA, Oct 27: About 20 people, including women and children, set off for Karachi on Sunday under the banner of the Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP) to highlight the issue of missing persons.

Participants of the ‘long march’ — led by VBMP Vice-Chairman Qadeer Baloch and carrying placards and photographs of missing persons — began their journey at the local press club. The march will culminate in a sit-in outside the Karachi Press Club.

Enforced-disappearance in Balochistan: VBMP announces long march from Quetta to Karachi

The Voice for Baloch Missing Persons announced on Thursday that they are shifting their protest camp from Quetta to Karachi. They also revealed that they will be marching from Quetta to Karachi to record their protest and draw the attention of world towards the plight of abducted Baloch activists.

State institutions are whisking away youngsters as the Baloch genocide: VBMP

Members of political parties and civil society concerned over extra-judicial detentions, enforced disappearances and recovery of mutilated bodies. Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP) had organised the session at Quetta Press Club.

BALOCHISTAN – Various politicians and civil society members have expressed deep concern over the incidents of extra-judicial detentions, disappearances and recovery of mutilated bodies in Balochistan.

The Voice for Baloch Missing Persons organised a session, “The role of democratic political parties and civil society in curbing the extra judicial killings,’ here at the Press Club Tuesday.

International human rights bodies urged to take immediate action to stop state atrocities against the Baloch people: BHRO

Occupied Balochistan: Baloch Human Rights Organization (BHRO) organized a protest demonstration in front of Quetta Press Club, against the batten charge and firing on 27 March protest rally, non-recovery of Baloch missing persons and other human rights issues facing the Baloch nation.

Balochistan: Thousands protest against enforced-disappearances of their loved ones

Occupied Balochistan: The families of abducted Baloch took out a protest rally against human rights violations and kill and dump of their loved ones by Pakistani security agencies. They demanded from the UN to take practical steps and play its role for safe release of enforced-disappeared Baloch.

According to details thousands of people rallied from Quetta Press Club to Assembly Chowk (roundabout) and staged a sit-in protest outside Serena Hotel where the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances had arrived to investigate the issue of missing persons in Balochistan. The Baloch Human Rights Organisation had given the call for the protest rally. The peaceful protesters were holding pictures of their disappeared and killed loved ones and placards inscribed against state atrocities in Balochistan.