Quetta, March 20 (IANS) Human rights body Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) held a seminar in Balochistan’s Surab district, highlighting systemic challenges and repression faced by communities across the province, accusing Pakistani authorities of using legal mechanisms to silence dissent. Held as part of the BYC’s ongoing month-long awareness campaign, the event drew attention to the human rights abuses by the Pakistani authorities and the “unjust detention” of its chief organiser, Mahran…
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Quetta, Feb 17 (IANS) The Baloch Women Forum (BWF) has written to the international community drawing attention to what it described as persistent human rights abuses carried out by Pakistani forces across Balochistan, particularly a growing wave of enforced disappearance of Baloch women.In its statement, the forum stated that Baloch women have emerged as the new victims of enforced disappearances, calling the practice illegal and morally reprehensible as well as a violation of international nor…
Quetta, Feb 11 (IANS) The coordinated attacks conducted recently by the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) have once again exposed the fragility of Pakistan’s Balochistan province, a report has highlighted.”Islamabad’s insistence on framing Balochistan solely as a security problem is proving increasingly short-sighted. Peaceful forms of dissent — from marches by families of the disappeared to student protests — have been met with arrests, media blackouts, and intimidation. As long as the State r…
New Delhi, Feb 3 (IANS) Pakistan is paying a heavy price as violence rages on in Balochistan. The Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) has unleashed havoc on the Pakistan security forces in the last 48 hours during which heavy casualties have been reported.Balochistan is important for Pakistan where its economy is concerned. While the Chinese have invested heavily in the region, the West is eyeing rare minerals, gold and copper.Officials say that the ongoing violence in Pakistan is a result of comp…
New Delhi, Feb 2 (IANS) The plan to bring together the Lashkar-e-Taiba and Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) to fight against the Balochistan Nationalist Army (BLA) and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) appears to have failed. The Pakistan army and ISI hatched a plan to bring the two terror groups together to battle the BLA and TTP, as the battle against these two groups was proving to be extremely hard.The BLA launched a series of attacks in Quetta and other places in “Operation Herof Phase…
Quetta, Jan 9 (IANS) Leading human rights organisation, Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP), on Friday demanded an end to enforced disappearances in Pakistan’s Balochistan province and called for the release of two men who were abducted recently. According to the statement released by the VBMP, a person identified as Kaleemullah, a resident of Khudabadan Panjgoor, was abducted from Allahabad Town of Balochistan’s Hub Chowki on January 7. The VBMP demanded the release of Kaleemullah and an en…