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…
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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…
Islamabad, July 20 (IANS) The Karachi Goods Carriers Association (KGCA) have rejected the recent hike in prices of petrol and diesel and warned of a nationwide wheel-jam strike if the decision is not withdrawn within 24 hours, local media reported on Monday. Speaking at a press conference on Sunday, KGCA General Secretary Nadeem Akhtar Arain said transporters would stop movement of goods, close offices and launch a nationwide protest in coordination with transport bodies across Pakistan.He said …
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…
Quetta, July 4 (IANS) The recent life sentence handed down to Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) leader Mahrang Baloch is being viewed as a message to Baloch women, whose defiance against Pakistani state atrocities was long underestimated by the country’s security establishment. While the state has long known how to confront tribal leaders, student militants, guerrillas, and exiles, it has struggled to respond to mothers, sisters, and daughters who have taken to the streets carrying photographs of …
Islamabad, June 22 (IANS) A Pakistani Anti-Terrorism Court on Monday sentenced four activists, including Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) leader Mahrang Baloch, to life imprisonment in connection with a case relating to the killing of a Frontier Corps official, local media reported.Citing the court verdict, The Balochistan Post reported that the case stemmed from an incident that occurred during the ‘Raji Machi’ gathering in Gwadar district, in which FC officer Shabbir Baloch lost his life.The pr…
New Delhi, May 31 (IANS) The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor which was projected for close to a decade as being a game changer for the Pakistani economy has instead turned out to be “a heavily securitised network of incomplete infrastructure, mounting debt obligations, stalled industrial zones, and growing frustration on both sides,” a report has said.The branding of “CPEC 2.0” today is less an indication of renewal and more an attempt to politically salvage a project that has failed to…
Islamabad, May 23 (IANS) The Balochistan province of Pakistan has long occupied a “paradoxical place” in the national imagination, often described as remote when its people demand rights but treated as central when strategic interests come into focus. It is frequently neglected in discussions on basic services and political autonomy, yet it becomes indispensable in debates on Gwadar port, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and regional connectivity.”Pakistan’s decision to open six land …
Islamabad, May 17 (IANS) After Islamabad hosted the US-Iran peace talks, the Field Marshal Asim Munir-led Pakistan Army has received tremendous international media attention, despite being “incapable” of addressing the relentless wave of terror attacks in their homeland, a media report said.According to the Global Terrorism Index 2026, Pakistan has, for the first time, topped the list of countries most affected by terrorism, editor Nitin J. Ticku wrote in the EurAsian Times.Khyber Pakhtunkhwa an…
Quetta, May 16 (IANS) The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) has claimed responsibility for 18 attacks across Balochistan targetting Pakistani forces, which resulted in the death of 31 personnel, including a senior officer, local media reported on Saturday.In a statement, BLA spokesperson Jeeyand Baloch said that the group’s fighters killed the Pakistani soldiers in a series of attacks carried out between May 4 and 14 involving Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blasts, ambushes, and highway blockade…