Quetta, May 2 (IANS) At least nine civilians were forcibly disappeared by Pakistani forces in Balochistan, said a leading human rights organisation on Saturday. Paank, the Baloch National Movement’s Human Rights Department, strongly condemned the enforced disappearance of two civilians, including 24-year-old farmer Qadeer Majeed and a student, Irshad Baloch, from the Khuzdar district.Citing reports, the rights body stated that both individuals were abducted on April 30 from the Badrang Greshag a…
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Quetta, May 1 (IANS) Leading human rights organisation Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC), on Friday strongly condemned the targetting of Baloch civilians in fabricated cases and their subsequent enforced disappearances, despite their full legal compliance, describing it as the “worst example of oppression” by Pakistani authorities.According to the BYC, since March 18, following the state crackdown, hundreds of people were arrested, and dozens of cases were registered against BYC leaders, along wit…
Islamabad, May 1 (IANS) One police constable was killed and two other personnel injured after armed assailants targetted a police vehicle in a rocket attack at Kangar Jan Bahadur in Bannu city of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Friday, local media reported. The incident took place when a police vehicle from the Fateh Khel checkpoint was targetted with a rocket attack while personnel were heading back to police lines, according to Bannu District Police Officer (DPO) Yasir Afridi, Pakist…
Quetta, May 1 (IANS) Baloch human rights defender Mir Yar Baloch on Friday strongly condemned Pakistan’s remarks over a recent protest at Jamia Millia Islamia in Delhi, describing them as “smear propaganda”. During a weekly media briefing in Islamabad on Thursday, Pakistani Foreign Office spokesperson Tahir Andrabi had made some comments on a protest that took place at the Indian university earlier this week during an event associated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).Slamming the Pakis…
New Delhi, May 1 (IANS) There are clear signs that the Al-Qaeda is looking to boost operations against the Pakistan regime in the wake of tensions between Islamabad and the Afghan Taliban. In the last one week, the Al-Qaeda’s media cell has been in overdrive mode, ramping up its messaging drive against the Pakistan establishment.The Al-Qaeda feels that the Pakistan regime has cozied up to western powers and in the bargain is hurting the interests of the region. While calling out the Pakistan A…
Quetta, May 1 (IANS) A leading human rights organisation has strongly condemned a Pakistani military operation in Balochistan’s Kharan district, which reportedly injured four civilians and led to the enforced disappearance of another individual.Citing reports, the Human Rights Council of Balochistan (HRCB) mentioned that mortar shelling by Pakistani forces on April 25 struck a residential area in Lijjay region of Kharan, seriously injuring two women, a man, and a one-year-old child. The victim…
Quetta, April 30 (IANS) A Baloch student organisation on Thursday expressed grave concern over a large number of curriculum books found discarded as waste in Balochistan’s Gwadar district. Sharing a video on social media platform X, which showed piles of curriculum books of the Balochistan Textbooks Board lying in garbage, the Baloch Students Action Committee (BSAC) said that these books were printed and distributed in Gwadar for the 2024-25 academic year.However, the group stated that the boo…
Islamabad, April 30 (IANS) Pakistan’s media landscape saw a reduction in space for free expression during the past year due to increasing legal, regulatory, and economic and other pressures, Islamabad-based media watchdog Freedom Network detailed in a report. Titled ‘Regulatory Repression of Freedom of Expression – Legal Controls and PECA Undermine Media and Journalism in Pakistan’, the report stated that the amended Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (PECA) law is the most “consequential i…
Quetta, April 30 (IANS) As violence against civilians continues unabated across Balochistan, leading human rights organisations brought to light the extrajudicial killing of a man and the enforced disappearances of two women, allegedly at the hands of Pakistani forces. The Human Rights Council of Balochistan (HRCB) mentioned that Aamir Noor, a resident of the Tump region of Kech district, was shot dead by a Pakistan-backed death squad on April 28 while travelling with his wife and sister to Kara…
Quetta, April 29 (IANS) Another three civilians were forcibly disappeared by Pakistani forces in Balochistan, a leading human rights organisation alleged on Wednesday. Expressing serious concern, Paank, the Baloch National Movement’s Human Rights Department, mentioned that two students – 20-year-old Siraj Qambrani and 22-year-old Lal Khan Qambrani – were taken from their home in provincial capital Quetta on the night of April 24 by the personnel of Pakistan’s Counter Terrorism Department (CTD)…