Brussels, July 15 (IANS) A delegation led by Baloch National Movement (BNM) Chairman Naseem Baloch called on the European Union (EU) to revoke Pakistan’s preferential trade status under the Generalised Scheme of Preferences Plus (GSP+), citing ongoing human rights abuses in Balochistan during its visit to the European Parliament in Brussels.In discussions with several Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) on Pakistan’s obligations under the EU’s GSP+ framework and its implementation, the BNM…
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Quetta, July 14 (IANS) The Baloch National Movement (BNM) has expressed its grave concern over the current situation in Jimuri Tehsil of Balochistan’s Gwadar district, alleging that the region has been under a complete siege by the Pakistan Army for the past week. The restrictions were imposed following the July 3 attack by Baloch Liberation Army’s (BLA) Majeed Brigade targeting the Pakistan Coast Guards camp in Panwan area in Gwadar, which resulted in the death of over 30 Pakistani personne…
Quetta, July 13 (IANS) At least four more civilians have been extrajudicially killed by Pakistani forces in Balochistan, a leading human rights organisations alleged on Monday. These latest incidents come against the backdrop of a growing wave of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances across the province.Paank, the Baloch National Movement’s Human Rights Department, strongly condemned the extrajudicial killing of two brothers, Imam and Muhammad Umar, residents of the Shaban Bazaar ar…
Berlin, July 7 (IANS) The Baloch National Movement (BNM) staged a protest in Germany’s Bremen, highlighting the worsening human rights situation in Balochistan and the alleged atrocities committed by the Pakistani authorities.Addressing the gathering, the speakers said that the Pakistani authorities are subjecting the people of Balochistan to large-scale collective punishment. They said that enforced disappearances and custodial killings have become routine, while accusing the authorities of d…
Quetta, July 6 (IANS) Five tortured dead bodies of Baloch men were recovered from Balochistan’s Gwadar district, with families and rights groups alleging that at least four had been forcibly disappeared months earlier, local media reported. Pakistani military officials, however, said that the five were armed men killed in an operation launched following Friday’s vehicle-borne attack by the Baloch Liberation Army’s Majeed Brigade on a Pakistan Coast Guards camp in the Panwan area of Jiwani in G…
Geneva, July 3 (IANS) Naseem Baloch, Chairman of the Baloch National Movement (BNM), has alleged that Hindu and Christian girls across Pakistan are being abducted, forcibly converted, and married off, describing the ongoing practice as a violation of their identity, dignity, freedom of conscience, family life, and fundamental human rights. Addressing an event titled ‘Forced Conversions and Minority Women’ on the sidelines of the 62nd Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC 62) …
Quetta, July 2 (IANS) Several leading human rights organisations on Thursday strongly condemned the arrest of a woman activist and Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) member, Syed Bibi, by Pakistani forces in Balochistan, describing it as part of an escalating crackdown on peaceful activists and “Pakistani fascism”.According to the BYC, Bibi was arrested by Pakistan’s Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on July 1 from her residence in Kech district without any legal justification. It said that althou…
Quetta, July 1 (IANS) Another three civilians were forcibly disappeared by Pakistani forces in Balochistan, leading human rights organisations alleged on Wednesday. Paank, the Baloch National Movement’s Human Rights Department, mentioned that 20-year-old driver Azizullah was allegedly taken away by Pakistani forces during a raid on June 29 in the Paroom area of the Panjgur district.Citing reports, the rights body stated that security forces, accompanied by a state-backed armed group, took him to…
Islamabad, July 1 (IANS) As the ongoing unrest in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), which has claimed dozens of lives so far, continues to escalate, the Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC) said that the arrest of its leader, Shaukat Nawaz Mir, by Pakistani authorities would make the movement stronger rather than weakening it. Mir, leader of the recently proscribed JAAC, was taken into custody in PoK’s Dhirkot area on Tuesday, local media reported, citing an official.The situation in the occupied …
Quetta, June 30 (IANS) As violence against civilians continues unabated across Balochistan, leading human rights organisations on Tuesday brought to light the extrajudicial killing of one civilian and the enforced disappearance of three others allegedly at the hands of Pakistani forces.Human rights body Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) revealed the dead body of 15-year-old student Saif Jan was dumped in the Airport Road area in the Panjgur district on Monday, after he had remained missing for nea…