The Moment Time Stops

 “The pain of a missing father is thousand times more painful than all the blisters in the world and it was for him that I was walking and am ready to accept all the pain that comes my way in efforts for recovery for him.”

Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur

How does one measure time? I suppose the criterion varies from individual to individual, from situation to situation and this means that time is and can be measured in different ways. True, some may measure it nonchalantly in their life of opulence and ease while some may measure it as a tedious exercise in their abject poverty.

The different attitude to measuring time is dependent on the usual circumstances that human live and survive in but how does one measure time in extraordinary and abnormal circumstances for then the measurement requires completely different parameters.

Feb 13: Shaheed Sangat Sana Baloch

Shaheed Sangat Sana Baloch

Enforced disappearance is illegal, torture is cruel, custodial killing is unlawful and genocide has been declared a crime against humanity by the international community and the civilized world. Though the Baloch nation suffers all these gross human rights violations under occupation of Pakistan and Iran, but still the international community sits idle.

Today we narrate the life of Sana; we shall tell you how he lived and why he was killed.

Feb 13: Shaheed Sangat Sana Baloch

Shaheed Sangat Sana Baloch

Enforced disappearance is illegal, torture is cruel, custodial killing is unlawful and genocide has been declared a crime against humanity by the international community and the civilized world. Though the Baloch nation suffers all these gross human rights violations under occupation of Pakistan and Iran, but still the international community sits idle.

Today we narrate the life of Sana; we shall tell you how he lived and why he was killed.

Balochistan : Human rights violations slammed

BALOCHISTAN: Speakers at a seminar on Saturday urged all political parties to raise their voice over human rights violations in Balochistan, Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

The seminar to highlight human rights issues was jointly organised by the Balochistan Human Rights Organisation (BHRO) and the Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP).

Wahid Baloch and the plight of ‘missing persons’ in Pakistan

Wahid Baloch, a prominent activist, was allegedly detained by security forces earlier this year. Baloch has now been reunited with his family but there’re thousands of other Baluchistan activists whose fate is unknown.

Pakistani activist Wahid Baloch, who “disappeared” four months ago, has returned to his home in the southern city of Karachi. “The social activist, writer and small-scale publisher is believed to have been detained by unidentified security officials on July 26 on the outskirts of Karachi, setting off a frightening, though wearingly familiar, process of recovery for his shocked family,” said Pakistan’s English daily, Dawn, on Wednesday, December 7.

Balochistan: Struggling for my father’s release from past 15 years: Farooq Bangulzai

BALOCHISTAN: The son of enforced-disappeared Ali Asghar Bangulzai said that his father was abducted on 18 October, 2001 exactly 15 years ago on this day.

The Baloch tailor Mr Bangulzai’s son Ghulam Farooq Bangulzai said, “We have been struggling peacefully and all using democratic mediums to seek justice and release of our father. We have knocked the door of all department but none has provided us justice.

A brief report on human rights violations in Balochistan by VBMP

The Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP) has observed misdeeds by the state of Pakistan in form of enforced disappearances, displacement of population and extra judicial killings in Balochistan, which are documented in detail and salient features are inscribed hereby for conveying information to international bodies with anticipation of provision of justice for wrenched masses in Balochistan.

Thousands of Baloch people have been abducted and many of them have been killed extra judicially in custody of Pakistani state security forces whose mutilated dead bodies have been found dumped in different areas across Balochistan. Rather, the abolition of despicable acts the state apparatuses constituted inhumane laws in the pretense of state sovereignty, such as the Pakistan Protection Ordinance (PPO).

میر محمد علی ٹالپر: بلوچستان میں لاپتہ افراد کی آواز

تحریر : امتیاز احمد

ترجمہ: لطیف بلیدی

میر محمد علی ٹالپر، جو بلوچستان میں ”لاپتہ افراد“ کیلئے لڑ رہے ہیں، کا کہنا ہے کہ یہ مسئلہ کوئی حالیہ رجحان نہیں ہے۔

میر محمد علی ٹالپر ان چند پاکستانیوں میں سے ایک ہیں جنہوں نے شورش زدہ صوبے بلوچستان میں ”لاپتہ افراد“ یا جبری طور پر غائب کیے گئے متاثرین کا مسئلہ اٹھایا ہے جو انہیں سیکورٹی اسٹابلشمنٹ کی نظروں میں لے آیا ہے۔

ٹالپر کی مسلسل نگرانی کی جاتی ہے اور ان کی نقل و حرکت پر بھی نظر رکھی جاتی ہے۔ ان سے ملنے والے لوگ بھی انٹیلی جنس ایجنسیوں کی نظروں میں ہیں۔ گزشتہ سال اپریل میں وہ ٹی ٹو ایف، کراچی کا ایک کیفے جو انسانی حقوق کے کارکنوں کے حوالے سے مقبول ہے، کے ایک مباحثے کے پینل پر تھے جس میں ”لاپتہ افراد“ پر بحث کی گئی تھی، اسکے بعد ٹی ٹو ایف کی بانی سبین محمود کو اسوقت گولی مار کر قتل کیا گیا جب وہ گھر جارہی تھیں۔

Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur: Voice of missing people in Balochistan