Baloch women in Pakistan are victims of state oppression and exploitation – Karachi rally

A rally was organized from Karachi Arts Council to Press Club on the call of Voice for Baloch Missing (VBMP) on the occasion of International Women’s Day in Karachi, the capital of Sindh.

Baloch Yekjethi Committee (BYC) Karachi strongly supported the rally, as did Awami Workers Party (AWP) and Baloch Students Organisation (BSO) who not only supported but as well as participated in it.

During International Women’s Day, rally participants expressed their opposition to centuries of oppression against women. In Pakistan today, Baloch women are the victims of state oppression and exploitation, now Baloch women are not safe even in homes, intersections, educational institutions, and workplaces.

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.

VBMP leaders meet German Ambassador

The leaders of Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP), an organization active against enforced disappearances in Balochistan, met with the German Ambassador in Pakistan Mr. Alfred Grannasn, and provided him detailed information on enforced disappearances in Balochistan.

According to the chairman of the organization, Nasrullah Baloch, they discussed in detail about forced disappearances and human rights violations in Balochistan.

Relatives of the missing persons were also present in the meeting.

Punjab Probe Rejected as Nishtar Hospital Bodies Buried

QUETTA / LAHORE: The Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP) on Wednesday expressed concern over the recent discovery of ‘hundreds’ of bodies on the roof of Nishtar Hospital in Multan, rejected Punjab government’s inquiry committee on the matter and appealed to Supreme Court to take notice of this inhuman tragedy and fulfil the demand of justice.

Expressing these views at a news conference, VBMP Chairman Nasarullah Baloch said the apex court had on a 2015 petition of his organization regarding recovery of mutilated bodies ordered the provincial governments to register FIRs, conduct DNA tests and investigate the reason of death, but the order was never implemented.

CTD Kills Two Baloch Enforced Disappeared Persons In Fake Encounter

Pakistani police’s Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) claimed to have killed four suspected persons during an encounter in Nautal area of Nasirabad in Balochistan on Sunday, 2 October 2022.

The Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP), however, rejected the CTD’s claim and said that two persons killed in Nasirabad were already in the custody of Pakistani forces. 

According to VBMP, the family identified two of the four persons identified as brothers Akbar and Jaisif sons of Nawab. They were forcibly disappeared from the Dera Murad Jamali region of Balochistan on 24 July 2022.

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.

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