Quetta, July 27 (IANS) As violence against civilians continues unabated in Balochistan, a leading human rights organisation on Monday alleged that three civilians were forcibly disappeared by the Pakistani forces. According to the statement released by the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) on X, Aziz Baloch (15), working as a rickshaw driver, was abducted from Quetta’s Saryab Road on July 23. The BYC alleged that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)/Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) were …
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Quetta, July 27 (IANS) As Pakistani security forces continued ground and air operations across several parts of Balochistan’s Khuzdar district, shelling in the Wadh area killed another person, local media reported on Monday, citing sources. Military helicopters carried out strikes in multiple locations in the Surgarh area of Ornach in Khuzdar, while aerial surveillance and flights over the region continued. Ground and aerial operations have been ongoing in Wadh, Ornach and Zehri over the past fe…
Quetta, July 26 (IANS) Human rights body Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) on Sunday announced a global campaign to mark the second anniversary of Baloch Raaji Muchi (Baloch National Gathering). The BYC noted that two years have passed since the Baloch National Gathering in Gwadar on July 28, 2024. It stated that this gathering was not only an event but was a “testament to the collective resistance, political reawakening, and unbroken will of the Baloch people”.The human rights organisation stated…
Quetta, July 24 (IANS) Several leading human rights organisations on Friday strongly condemned the enforced disappearance of six civilians, including women and children, by Pakistani forces in Balochistan.Citing the victims’ family, Paank, the Baloch National Movement’s Human Rights Department, said that more than 20 Pakistan Frontier Corps (FC) vehicles carrying around 60 personnel, accompanied by three masked individuals in civilian clothes, raided their home in the Killi Kongarh area in Mas…
Quetta, July 22 (IANS) At least four civilians were forcibly disappeared by Pakistani forces in Balochistan, a leading human rights organisation alleged on Wednesday Paank, the Baloch National Movement’s Human Rights Department, expressed grave concern over the enforced disappearance of four Baloch youths by Pakistani security forces in the Jiwani area of Gwadar district on Tuesday night.Citing reports, the rights body said that Pakistani forces conducted a late-night raid, searched homes, and s…
Quetta, July 21 (IANS) As violence against civilians continues unabated across Balochistan, leading human rights organisations on Tuesday brought to light the extrajudicial killing of one more civilian and the enforced disappearance of two others at the hands of Pakistani forces. Human rights body Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) said that 18-year-old Ahmed Ali Baloch was killed in a landmine explosion in Dera Bugti district on July 19, allegedly planted by Pakistan-backed death squads.The rights…
Islamabad, July 19 (IANS) The Islamic State–Khorasan Province’s (ISKP) greatest strength is connectivity, and Pakistan remains central to that connectivity because of history and geography, a report stated.”Pakistan has always attempted to present ISKP as a foreign infection entering from Afghanistan. This is convenient, but historically false. The organisation did not arrive in Pakistan from another planet. It emerged in part from the same jihadist ecosystem that the Pakistani state had cul…
Islamabad, July 15 (IANS) A leading international human rights organisation has urged the Pakistani authorities to immediately release Pashtun leader Zubair Shah Agha, Baloch female activist Syed Bibi Baloch and journalist Ahmad Farhad, while calling for an end to the misuse of administrative detention laws against peaceful dissent and the protection of rights to liberty, freedom of expression and peaceful assembly. According to Amnesty International, Zubair Shah Agha, a core committee member of…
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…
Quetta, July 10 (IANS) Sammi Deen Baloch, a member of the human rights organisation Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC), alleged that Balochistan is currently “ablaze”, with the law and order situation in the province deteriorating to an alarmingly critical level.She claimed that several areas in the province, including Ziarat, are now engulfed in violence and unrest, and the situation has now spread to the outskirts of the provincial capital Quetta as well as the Hanna Urak area.Slamming the Pa…