Washington, July 27 (IANS) The recent surge in militant attacks in Pakistan has heightened concerns for China, which has invested billions of dollars in the South Asian nation since 2015.In recent years, the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) has increasingly targeted Chinese interests, alleging that Beijing is exploiting Balochistan’s natural resources, a report has stated.”For China, Pakistan’s Balochistan represents a massive investment that’s a crucial part of its touted Belt and Road Initiative (…
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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 …
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 27 (IANS) The Baloch armed fighters launched a series of attacks targeting Pakistani forces and installations across multiple districts of Balochistan, leaving several personnel dead, local media reported citing sources. The fighters also seized and torched multiple vehicles transporting minerals, after opening fire on a convoy in the Nokchah area of Chagai district.The incident came against the backdrop of an “economic blockade” declared by the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA). Since t…
Tel Aviv, July 25 (IANS) Pakistan is currently grappling with multiple challenges – from a prolonged economic crisis that has repeatedly pushed it to the brink of bankruptcy – to deepening ethnic tensions between the Punjabi-dominated state institutions and ethnicities such as the Pashtuns and the Balochs, a report has stated. The conflict involving Iran has introduced a new layer of strategic uncertainty that extends far beyond Tehran. If a prolonged war weakens state authority in Iran’s easter…
Islamabad, July 25 (IANS) Pakistan enters FY2026 still classified by the World Bank as a lower-middle-income country, and it sits within the Bank’s “blend” category, a status that gives Islamabad access to both concessional financing from the International Development Association (IDA) and near-market lending from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), according to an analysis.On paper, that dual access should give Pakistan more room than most developing economies to i…
Islamabad, July 25 (IANS) Pakistan’s continued use of proxy militias, enforced disappearances, bureaucratic marginalisation, and resource exploitation without any benefits for local communities has only fuelled the insurgency rather than containing it. Every missing student, every family displaced from the coastline to facilitate foreign-backed port projects, and every Baloch household living beside a gas pipeline without access to gas strengthens the belief among many that their future does not…
Quetta, July 25 (IANS) The Baloch Women Forum (BWF) expressed grave concern over the escalating enforced disappearances of civilians, including women and children, allegedly carried out by Pakistani forces in Balochistan, warning that the practice has become one of the most alarming human rights issues of the 21st century.The remarks came following the July 21 incident in the Killi Kongarh area in Mastung district of Balochistan, where security forces personnel raided a house and abducted six me…
Jammu, July 24 (IANS) Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leader Indresh Kumar said on Friday that even though terrorist acts have drastically come down in Jammu and Kashmir, it is still a “challenge” for security forces in the Union Territory.His reaction came after Head Constable Ashiq Hussain Qureshi was shot by a terrorist from close range while on patrolling duty in the Union Territory’s Anantnag.Speaking to IANS, Indresh Kumar said: “Slowly, Jammu and Kashmir is becoming free from terrorism….
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…