Jammu, June 11 (IANS) Leaders in Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday launched a scathing attack on the Pakistani Army, calling them “inhuman” and drawing a comparison with their Indian counterpart after more than 20 people were reportedly killed in recent police action on protestors in several parts of Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK).Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (NC) leader Shafqat Mir condemned the incident, saying: “It is a crime and voice should be raised against it.””It is very unfortunat…
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Quetta, June 8 (IANS) Several human rights organisations and activists on Monday marked the ‘Baloch Missing Persons Day’, remembering victims of enforced disappearances in Balochistan while slamming the Pakistani security forces of arbitrary detentions, torture, and extrajudicial killings.The decision to declare June 8 as Missing Persons Day in Balochistan was taken during a central committee meeting of the Baloch Students Organisation(BSO)-Azad in 2017 to raise awareness regarding the Pakistani…
Quetta, June 5 (IANS) The Baloch National Movement (BNM) has warned that continued silence from the international community has intensified the worsening human rights situation in Balochistan, alleging that the Pakistani Army is carrying out indiscriminate attacks targeting unarmed civilians across the province. Describing the operations as “state terrorism,” the BNM accused Pakistani authorities of committing a “systematic genocide” of the Baloch civilians, stressing the situation deman…
Quetta, May 17 (IANS) The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) has said that its fighters had “taken control” of Dalbandin city and the Quetta-Taftan main highway in Pakistan’s Balochistan and warned mineral transporters that convoys carrying what it termed “looted Baloch resources” would no longer be able to travel through the route, local media reported on Sunday. In a statement, BLA spokesperson Jeeyand Baloch said the group’s fighters conducted 10 operations in Balochistan over 10 days, including th…
Quetta, March 31 (IANS) The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) on Tuesday claimed responsibility for carrying out more than 30 coordinated attacks against the Pakistani army across several regions in Balochistan, resulting in the death of dozens of personnel and injuries to several others. “Our series of coordinated attacks against the occupying Pakistani army across the length and breadth of occupied Balochistan continues with full force. So far, more than 30 attacks have been carried out in various …
Quetta, March 18 (IANS) The Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF) has claimed responsibility for carrying out attacks in Kech district that killed three Pakistani personnel and critically injured four others. Additionally, the armed group targetted Pakistan-backed death squads in Washuk district, killing three operatives, local media reported on Wednesday. In a statement, BLF spokesperson Major Gwahram Baloch said that acting on verified intelligence, its fighters launched an attack on operatives o…
Quetta, Feb 27 (IANS) A leading human rights organisation on Friday drew attention to escalating abuses by Pakistani forces across Balochistan, documenting 107 enforced disappearances and 78 extrajudicial killings throughout January. In its latest report, the Human Rights Council of Balochistan (HRCB) recorded 107 enforced disappearances, including a woman.As per the findings among the 107 documented cases, 78 individuals were abducted through house raids, while 29 were taken into custody throug…
Jammu, Feb 27 (IANS) The movement of a drone was observed along the line of control (LoC) in J&K’s Poonch sector on Friday, leading to the security forces opening fire, officials said.Officials said that the movement of a drone was observed over Gulpur village in the Poonch sector of the LoC.”The movement of the drone was noticed during routine surveillance by the security forces. Fire was opened at the drone. The object was seen moving towards Siriyan village, entering the Pakistani side …
Quetta, Feb 24 (IANS) At least five civilians were forcibly disappeared by Pakistani forces in Balochistan, leading human rights organisations said on Tuesday.These latest incidents come against the backdrop of a growing wave of enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings across the province.Paank, the Baloch National Movement’s Human Rights Department, mentioned that 33-year-old Ghulam Sarwar, a labourer from Abdullah Bizenjo Goth area in Hub district, was forcibly disappeared from his l…
Washington, Feb 22 (IANS) The recent attacks by Baloch armed groups against Pakistan’s security forces underscore the shortcomings of Pakistani Army chief Asim Munir’s coercive state policy amid the near-total suppression of dissent across Balochistan, a report said on Sunday.Writing for American media outlet ‘PJ Media’, Turkish journalist Uzay Bulut argued that the February 1 attack by the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) exposed a Pakistani intelligence lapse in failing to preempt an at…