Quetta, July 24 (IANS) At least one person was killed, and several others, including women and children, were injured in Balochistan’s Khuzdar district in shelling by Pakistani forces, local media reported on Friday citing sources.Following the incident in the Drakhalaw-Gaslaiti area of Wadh in Khuzdar, local residents staged a sit-in protest on a highway, placing the body of the deceased, identified as Abdul Qadir, at the protest site.Addressing the demonstration, protesters alleged that the …
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Islamabad, June 24 (IANS) The decades-long insurgency in Pakistan’s Balochistan province has been exacerbated by allegations of enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings of civilians attributed to state agencies, a report has stated. Citing partial data published by the South Asia Terrorism Portal (SATP), it said that at least 59 incidents linked to the Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF) have been recorded till June 21 this year, resulting in 233 deaths, including 21 civilians, 203 pers…
Quetta, May 30 (IANS) Human rights body Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) on Saturday strongly condemned the ongoing curfew in the Mashkai region of Balochistan’s Awaran district imposed by Pakistani forces, alleging that it forms part of a wider effort “to paralyse public life”. According to the BYC, the restrictions have disrupted daily lives, confining people to their homes while denying basic freedom of movement, resulting in significant hardships for the public.”Even on the occasion of Eid, t…
Quetta, March 6 (IANS) The Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF) has claimed responsibility for an armed attack in Balochistan’s Khuzdar district that killed three Pakistani soldiers and injured several others, briefly seizing control of Karkh town while targeting multiple government installations during the operation, local media reported on Friday.In a statement issued to the media, BLF spokesperson Major Gwahram Baloch said that the operation occurred on March 4 involving a coordinated assault…
Quetta, Feb 22 (IANS) At least eleven members of the same family were forcibly disappeared by the Pakistani forces in Balochistan amid a growing wave of enforced disappearances across the province, a leading human rights organisation said on Sunday.Condemning the incidents, Paank, the Baloch National Movement’s Human Rights Department, mentioned that Pakistani security forces raided a house in the Gazgi area of Khuzdar district on February 18, and detained Hayat Bibi, an elderly woman, taking he…