tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34287959765361106402024-03-19T06:31:29.056-06:00BALOCH LANDThe Baloch Land is Known as Balochistan. It is larger in size than France. The Baloch people are living in their natural geographical boundaries. Balochistan was intentionally divided up with pieces going to three countries: Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. In Pakistan again, this Nation is cut into three pieces: Sindh, Punjab and Balochistan, and in Iran also Baloch land is divided into Khorasan, Hormozgan and Sistan va Baluchistan provinces. Freedom is the basic right of every nation.Sarbaaz Balochhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17723635312832714118noreply@blogger.comBlogger534125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428795976536110640.post-82951586865207692452013-02-25T16:56:00.002-06:002013-02-25T16:56:55.186-06:00You Cannot Keep The Spring From Coming — Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur<a href="http://www.bygwaah.com/uploads/articles/topics/5ac550f6-2748-7add.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.bygwaah.com/uploads/articles/topics/5ac550f6-2748-7add.jpg" /></a>Thousands of Baloch have gone missing since 1974 and continue to go missing while more than 700 of them have had their tortured bodies dumped all over Balochistan<br />
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is ingrained into the psyche of the ‘establishment’; consequently, we keep getting ridiculous explanations and excuses for all the anguish and agony in Balochistan. The establishment’s spokespersons defend it with truisms attractive enough to befool people. They want people to overlook the fact that Balochistan’s present situation is the product of the atrocities and exploitation of the last 64 years and believe that all that this is a creation of international conspiracies by powers with ulterior motives.<br />
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A few days back Senator Raza Rabbani in the Senate proceedings regarding the carnage against the Hazaras linked the recent wave of terrorism in Balochistan with the handover of the Gwadar Port to China and said, “We all know how important Gwadar is, especially when it comes to international politics.” Presumably, he wants people to believe that the United States and India foment trouble there because of rivalry with China. The British High Commissioner Adam Thomson’s statement last month that; “Pakistan needs radical change. Pakistan’s governments -- federal and provincial -- are not delivering enough to the people,” also gravely upset him. He questioned, “Who is he to make such a statement?” Gentleman, he makes this statement because they fund your very existence.<br />
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Mind you, this stance on Balochistan is not something new for the Senator. He had taken offence at the visit of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) last September. Under his chair, the Parliamentary Committee on National Security (PCNS) decided that in the future no United Nations group would be allowed to visit Pakistan to discuss “sensitive issues”. He had strongly criticised the UN group for its desire to meet with military officials and was happy that the UN team was not entertained by the military leadership. PCNS grilled the foreign and interior ministries for their failure to satisfy it on the WGEID’s visit. Ironically, the PCNS’s 15 recommendations on missing persons are still in limbo. They themselves do precious little for the missing persons but take offence at international bodies’ justified concern regarding the missing. Moreover, when states conduct ‘dirty wars’ against the people, all have the right to intervene. Interestingly, the Oman Tribune had printed a news item on September 27, 2012 that had sources hinting that Senator Raza Rabbani is likely to be the choice for the caretaker prime minister. To be the caretaker prime minister you have to have the right sound bytes.<br />
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I digress. Let us get back to Gwadar and international conspiracies. Gwadar was still on lease to Oman in March 1948 when Pakistan under Jinnah decided to usurp the Baloch freedom by its forced annexation in violation of all agreements. There was no conspiracy then except the Pakistani state’s conspiracy to grab Balochistan and deprive the Baloch of their rights and that conspiracy still flourishes. The real and underlying conspiracy is to obfuscate the real issue of state-sponsored terrorism against the Baloch since 1948 and against the Hazaras since 1999. The official narrative implies that everything that happens in Balochistan is due to the machinations of ‘foreign hands’. What they conveniently forget is that the Baloch have a history of resisting those who have tried to subjugate them. The allegations about foreign hands are to deflect criticism from their ‘strategic assets’ who, unable to do anything against the US in Afghanistan and the Indians in Kashmir, have unleashed their fury upon unarmed and innocent people here.<br />
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The carnage against the Hazaras, including the two this year, have been owned up to by the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ). Raza Rabbani’s statement would imply that they are working for the enemies of China; this is as preposterous as it can get. The real intent of these allegations is to malign the Baloch nationalists so that the state and media can provide justifications to the people for the atrocities that are committed against the Baloch by the army and the Frontier Corps (FC). After Governor’s rule was imposed in January, operations against the Baloch intensified while a blind eye was turned towards the LeJ, which resulted in the carnage on February 16.<br />
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The media controls the discourse and ensures that the Baloch are painted in the worst colours in contrast to the treatment that the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) or other fundamentalists get. The TTP spokesperson Ehsanullah Ehsan is interviewed but the Baloch leaders are barred. The Supreme Court takes notice of Baloch views in the media as threatening the integrity of the state but the TTP is kosher. Little wonder Malcolm X said, “If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” Here the oppressed end up being hated and the oppressors are admired.<br />
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People often ask the agonising question that the missing Dr Deen Mohammad Baloch’s daughter, Saman Baloch, asked of Mohammad Hanif: “If they want to hang my father, they should bring him to court, put him on trial and hang him in front of us. We’ll at least have the satisfaction of knowing that he is no more. But if they keep him alive for three years, four years; if they torture him every day and kill him and dump his body, what is the point of that?” The answer is they do this to intimidate physically and psychologically those who seek their rights and defy the might of the state.<br />
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It is noteworthy that thousands of Baloch have gone missing since 1974 and continue to go missing while more than 700 of them have had their tortured bodies dumped all over Balochistan. However, this brutality has not succeeded in intimidating the Baloch who continue to resist repression and exploitation because they realise that giving up their rights, land and resources would make their life meaningless and pointless. Therefore, they resist and struggle. For them the ultimate price is not their life but their land, history and culture. They know without these they would lose their moorings and bearings and would find themselves adrift without an identity and a reason to live; the struggle preserves and strengthens their identity. Their message to the state is that they will persevere and prevail. For them the axiomatic and poignant Pablo Neruda quotation: “You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep the spring from coming,” has become the inspirational dictum. This is what they have come to believe and they will struggle whatever may be said or done.<br />
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The writer has an association with the Baloch rights movement going back to the early 1970s. He tweets at mmatalpur and can be contacted at mmatalpur@gmail.comSarbaaz Balochhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17723635312832714118noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428795976536110640.post-50577430368087242652013-02-25T16:33:00.000-06:002013-02-25T16:33:50.883-06:00Ten more Baloch abducted by the Pakistani forces from different parts of Balochistan.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Occupied Balochistan: Pakistani military and its secret agencies have abducted 10 more Baloch from Panjgur and Gwadar district. According to reports Pakistani forces, in a pre-dawn raid in Panjgur, abducted Master Abdul Rehman along with four other friends and took them away to unknown location.<br />
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According to locals of the area Pakistani forces surrounded Gharibabad Chitkan and then entered in houses. Forces broke valuables, beat the locals and abducted five men, which were identified as Master Abdul Rehman, Shakir Baloch, Karim Jan, Ghulam Jan and Aman Jan.<br />
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Meanwhile the Spokesman of Baloch Human Rights Organization (BHRO) said that Master Abdul Rehman is a teacher in a government school in Chitkan, while Karim Jan is working with Pakistan television (PTV). Spokesman said, ''The forces maltreated women and children, broke into the houses of residents and fired shots to cause fear in the area.''<br />
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The Spokesman further said, Karim Jan, Ghulam jan and Shakir belong to the same family. Forces have already abducted four other members of Ghulam Jan's family from Karachi in the end of January 2013.<br />
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''Ghulam Jan's son Ijaz Baloch was abducted on 24 January from Dalmia Karachi and 3 members of their family namely Ifthikhar Baloch, Zahid Baloch and Waseem Baloch were abducted from Raess Goth Karachi on 28 January. All the abducted are still missing without any trace.''<br />
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Separately, the Pakistani secret agencies personnel have abducted Parvez s/o Khan Mohammad and Suleman Baloch on gunpoint from a Gwadar bound passenger bus. Both persons are residents of Gwadar town.<br />
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Famous Balochi language poet Dad Kareem aka DK Baloch along with Shafi Baloch and Sagheer Baloch abducted from coastal town of Jiwani in district Gwadar. According to reports, on 22nd February about 11pm, Pakistani forces have abducted the Dad Kareem, Shafi Baloch and Sagheer Baloch from Dirhana area of Jiwani during their picnic party. They all are residents of Jiwani town of Balochistan.<br />
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Courtesy: <a href="http://www.balochjohd.com/modules/xnews/article.php?storyid=789" target="_blank">Balochjohd.com</a><br />
<br />Sarbaaz Balochhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17723635312832714118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428795976536110640.post-46630162110749135132013-02-23T21:10:00.000-06:002013-02-23T21:24:50.116-06:00Baloch Students Organisation (Azad) January 2013 Human Rights Report1st January incidents<br />
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[Sui, Dera Bugti]: Pakistani military conducted a military operation in Sui area of Dera Bugti, four persons were abducted by the forces. The abductees were were identified as Walo s/o Gulam Bugti, Hasso s/o Khairo Bugti, Polat s/o Chakar Khan Bugti and Ahmad s/o Rehman Bugti.<br />
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[Pirkooh, Dera Bugti]: Laimon Khan Baloch critically injured in a landmine blast in pirkoh area of Dera Bugti.<br />
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[Chitkan, Pajgour]: Ejaz Ali Baloch, a prominent trader, was abducted by unidentified gunmen in Chitkan area of Panjgour.<br />
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2nd January incidents<br />
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[Mach]: Maqsood Baloch, a journalist, survived an attack carried out by unidentified gunmen while he was capturing pictures of murdered persons in the hospital. Balochistan Union Of Journalists strongly condemned the attack.<br />
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4th January incidents<br />
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[Pasni]: Bolan Karim Baloch, a teenage student and resident of Pasni, was abducted by Pakistani military from Pasni.<br />
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5th January incidents<br />
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[Merani Dem]: Bullet riddled dead body of Meer Khan Baloch was found in Merani Dem area of Kech.
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[Zahidan]: Mohsin Ismail zahi Baloch, a political prisoner was tortured to death in the central jail of Zahidan.
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7th January incidents<br />
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[Quetta]: three Baloch youths were abducted by Pakistani military from Arbab karam Khan road area of<br />
Quetta, they were identified as Sana ullah Langove, Naseer Langove and Jaleel Langove.<br />
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[Bessima]: Imam Baskh Baloch, uncle of martyr Hamid Baloch (who was previously abducted and killed extra judicially under custody) was murdered by Pakistani death squads in Besima.<br />
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8th January incidents<br />
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[Mand]: Pakistani military fired 14 rockets on civilian population in Mand area of Kech that caused heavy damages.<br />
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9th January incidents<br />
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[Mashkay] 21 vehicles of Frontier Corps have raided Mashkay and abducted Ashraf Baloch, his son Shareef Baloch, and Khuda Baksh Baloch. Zahoor S/O Alahi Bux and Zakir S/O Abdul Hakeem are residents of Nokjo whereas Saaloo S/O Jumma Khan and Khaliq Dad S/O Saydo are residents of Tolago.<br />
The Pakistani forces also destroyed forests in Mashkay and surrounding areas by setting them on fire.
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[Mand]: Once again, Pakistani military fired 4 rockets on civilian population in Mand area of Kech.<br />
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[Quetta]: Abdul Aziz Pirkani Baloch was killed by unidentified gunmen in Quetta.<br />
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11th January incidents<br />
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[Mand]: Pakistani military conducted a military operation in Kooh Posht area of Mand, five persons were abducted by the forces during the operation. The abductees were identified as Abdul Sattar Baloch, Faiz Mohammad Baloch, Naseer Ahmad Baloch, Akhtar Gourham Baloch and Dad Rehman Baloch.<br />
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[Chalagi]: Tanveer Ahmad Baloch, cousin of prominent Balochi language writer Obaid Shad was abducted by Iranian forces from chalagi area of Zamouran, later he was extra judicially killed under custody and his dead body was handed to his relative after 11 days.<br />
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[Dera Bugti]: Three bullet riddled dead bodies were found in Dera Bugti. Two of the deceased were identified as Peer Dad Marri and his son while the third person couldn’t be identified.<br />
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12th January incidents<br />
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[AWARAN]: Pakistani forces along with their agents and stooges have attacked residents in Awaran Bazar, Teertaj and Bedhi. The forces looted and then set ablaze many shops whereas they also maltreated and abducted many Baloch.
According to details the Pakistani forces stormed the main Awaran Bazar and abducted Zareef Baloch, Hameed Baloch, Asadullah Baloch, Raheem Bakhsh Baloch, Mumtaz Baloch and many others. The forces then terrorized the whole area by firing in the air for long. They also looted many shops including a Medical store and then burnt them up.<br />
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15th January incidents<br />
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[Mashkay]: Ashraf s/o Qasoum Baloch, a resident of Nokjo, was abducted by Pakistani military from Laki area of Mashkay .<br />
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16th January incidents<br />
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[Mand]: Pakistani military conducted a military operation in Lebnan area of Mand, four persons were abducted who were identified as, Fida Baloch, Mossa Baloch, Master Hamid Baloch and Ahad Baloch.
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[Mashkay, Awaran] 13 Baloch youths were abducted by Pakistani military from different areas of Mashkay.
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18th January incidents<br />
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[Mastung]: Pakistani forces stormed a house in Mastung city and killed two Baloch youth Rasheed Baloch and Shah Jahan Baloch. Women and children were also injured in the attack. The forces also abducted Nisar Baloch, brother of Rasheed Baloch.<br />
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[Kharan]: Akram Baloch along with his 4 years old child was killed by unidentified gunmen in Kharan.<br />
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19th January incidents<br />
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[Peer koh, Dera Bugti]: A convoy of a large number of armed vehicles carrying combat troops of Pakistani forces laid a siege to different areas in Pirkoh, Dera Bugti. Many villages including Bakir kohr, Sardaw, Hann, Haidaro, Kando and others were heavily bombarded dozens of houses (mostly mud and wood huts) of poor Baloch villagers were destroyed and burnt to ashes.
Bakhtiyar Bugti was killed during the operation while at least thirteen people including three women were abducted by the forces during the offensive. The abducted men were identified as Bahiyan Bugti, Allah Bux Bugti, Shaho Bugti, Razzu Bugti, Leemo Bugti, Mazar Khan Bugti, Noor din Bugti, Saifal Bugti, Nadgo Bugti and one unknown men while the identity of abducted women could not be ascertained.<br />
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[Patfidar, Dera Bugti]: One person died and 3 others injured in a landmine blast in Patfidar area of Dera Bugti .<br />
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[Killi Ismail]: A teenage student namely Rashid Langove S/o Mansoor Ahmad Langove Baloch was abducted by Pakistani military from Killi Ismail area of Quetta.<br />
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[New Kahan]: Pakistani military conducted a military operation in New Kahan area of Quetta and abducted several people. Gull Jan Marri, 5 years old child, was critically injured due to indiscriminate firing by the forces.<br />
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[Kharan]: Kabeer Baloch was abducted while he was going to Noshki from Kharan.<br />
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20th January incidents<br />
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[Bessima]: Pakistani military surrounded the residence of Qasum Baloch in Besima and the indiscriminately bombarded it. Due to indiscriminate bombardment, Qasum Baloch along with a woman named Banok Ruzhina Baloch were killed.<br />
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[Zahidan]: Iranian authorities executed three Baloch political prisoner in the central jail of Zahidan, the victims were named as Ali Kamali Baloch, Dawoud Qambarzahi Baloch and Mahmoud Shahraki Baloch.<br />
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21st January incidents<br />
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[Peer koh]: Pakistani military bombarded Pirkooh town in Dera bugti, due to indiscriminate bombardment, Buzzo Bugti Baloch along with his little daughter was killed while several others were injured.<br />
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[Dera Bugti] The bullet riddled dead bodies of Razzo Bugti Baloch and Bahian Bugti Baloch were found in Dera Bugti, both were abducted on 19 January 2013 from Dera Bugti during the search operation.<br />
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22nd January incidents
Sanaullah langove, Naseer Langove & Jalil Langove were abducted by Pakistani occupying forces from Shall, Quetta on 2013/1/22.<br />
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23rd January incidents<br />
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[Peer koh]: Four Baloch including a woman and a child were killed in a landmine blast in Dera Bugti .<br />
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25th January incidents<br />
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16 years old resident of ''Kros Thang'' area of Gwadar district, Nasrat son of Habib Omer, has been critically injured by Iranian border forces. He was captured and kept in detention, in injured condition, without medical aid for hours.<br />
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26th January incidents<br />
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[Karachi]: The bullet riddled dead body of Baloch activist Adnan Baloch s/o Haji Akram was found in Malir area of Karachi, he was abducted by Pakistani military from Kahnak area of Mand on 30th June 2012.<br />
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[Sui, Dera Bugti]: two persons were killed while another was injured in a landmine blast in Sui area of Dera Bugti.<br />
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27th January incidents<br />
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[Dasht, Kech]: Mola Baksh Baloch was abducted by Pakistani military from Zarrinboug area of Dasht.<br />
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29th January incidents<br />
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[Quetta] Pakistani military raided a house in Killi Bangulzai area of Shal (Quetta) and abducted Imran Bangulzai.<br />
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30th January incidents<br />
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[Pir koh - Dera Bugti] Four bullet-riddled dead bodies were found from Pirkoh area of Dera Bugti in Balochistan. The victims were identified as Sabz Ali Bugti, Mazar Khan Bugti, Noordin Bugti, Naik Mohammad Bugti. They all belong to same family and were abducted along with 13 others including three women from Pirkoh area of Dera Bugti 15 days ago during a military offensive.<br />
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[Kerman]: Five Balouch prisoners Nazar Shahbakhsh, Ne'matollah Shahbakhsh, Abdollah Shahbakhsh, Abdorrahman SHahbakhsh and Saleh Noti Zehi were executed in Kerman. They had been arrested five years ago. There is no information about their charges.<br />
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31st January incidents<br />
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[Turbat]: Master Sher Mohammad Resident of Buledah was abducted by Pakistani Agencies from Turbat.
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[Khuzdar - Awaran]: Two bullet riddled bodies found from Khuzdar while one from Awaran district of Balochistan.
[Karachi]: Two bullet riddled bodies of abducted Baloch found from Surjani town area of Karachi. They were identified as Haroon Baloch and Razak Baloch. Both the victims were abducted by the Pakistani forces two months ago from Pishukan area of district Gwadar.<br />
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[Pasni]: Pakistani forces abducted Sajid Baloch & Younus Yousuf from Pasni.<br />
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Courtesy: <a href="http://sagaar.org/modules/content/index.php?id=11" target="_blank">Sagaar.org</a>Sarbaaz Balochhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17723635312832714118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428795976536110640.post-26973699464189247572013-02-23T21:00:00.003-06:002013-02-25T17:34:17.070-06:00Karachi: Five Baloch student forcefully disappeared, and another bullet riddled body found.<a href="http://www.balochjohd.com/uploads/xnews/topics/b03d450e-0778-39a1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="176" src="http://www.balochjohd.com/uploads/xnews/topics/b03d450e-0778-39a1.jpg" width="320" /></a>Karachi: Pakistani military have started new trend of abducting and throwing brutally tortured bullet riddlded bodies of Baloch youths in different parts of Karachi. According to Baloch national media reports another bullet riddled body of Baloch youth found from Malir area of Karachi. The victim identified as Nabi Baksh s/o Ababagar, a resident of coastal town of Pishukan in district Gwadar, Balochistan. Nabi Baksh was abducted about eight months ago from Pishukan by the Pakistani secret agencies. It is pertinent to mention here that within short span of month seven bullet riddled bodies of abducted Baloch youths being found dumped in different parts of Karachi. All the victims were abducted from different parts of Balochistan by Pakistani forces.<br />
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BBC Urdu reported the abduction of five Baloch student from different areas of Karachi by the Pakistani secret agencies. Four Baloch student namely Babu Iftikhar Baloch s/o Mansoor Ahmed Baloch, Zahid Pazeer s/o Haji Pazeer Baloch and Waseem Fazal Baloch s/o Fazal Kareem Baloch were abducted by Pakistani secret agencies from Raees Goth area of Karachi on 28th January, while Ejaz Ghulam Baloch s/o Ghulam Jan Baloch was abducted on 24th January from Dalmia area of Karachi. They all belong to Panjgur town of Balochistan.<br />
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Few days earlier another Baloch youth namely Manzoor Qalandarani also abducted from Karachi by secret agencies. Manzoor is student of Iqra University in Karachi.<br />
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Baloch Human Rights Ogranisation's (BHRO) activists protested outside Karachi press club against the abductions of Baloch student by Pakistani secret agencies. Protesters have also urged to United Nation to play their role in ending the series of abductions, custodial killings and military operations in Balochistan.<br />
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Courtesy :<a href="http://www.balochjohd.com/modules/xnews/article.php?storyid=787http://www.balochjohd.com/modules/xnews/article.php?storyid=787" target="_blank">BalochJohd.com</a>Sarbaaz Balochhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17723635312832714118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428795976536110640.post-47304491180340405632013-02-23T20:53:00.002-06:002013-02-25T17:44:54.506-06:00Pakistan doesn't understand the language of diplomacy, UN should intervene to stop disappearances: VBMP<a href="http://balochwarna.com/uploads/xnews/topics/561bfa76-5907-739b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://balochwarna.com/uploads/xnews/topics/561bfa76-5907-739b.jpg" /></a>Karachi: Vice chairman of VBMP said in a press release that the recommendations of UN working group are not being implemented for the release of Baloch disappeared.<br />
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He said, “UN working group in a meeting with the families of Baloch disappeared said that we have presented recommendations to Pakistani officials regarding disappearances in Balochistan.”
Mama Qadeer said that Pakistan has failed to implement the recommendations of UN working group.<br />
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The recommendations, which UN working group presented to Pakistani officials for the implementation regarding disappearances in Balochistan, are as follow:<br />
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1. As a preventive measure against enforced disappearance, any person deprived of liberty shall be held in an officially recognized place of detention and be brought promptly before a judicial authority.<br />
2. The Commission of Inquiry should be reinforced. Its membership should be extended, so as to allow parallel hearings. Its staff and resources should be strengthened and the Commission should be given its own premises.<br />
3. The courts and the Commission of Inquiry should use all powers they have to ensure compliance with their orders, including the request of sworn affidavits and writs of contempt of courts.<br />
4. As a rule, the families should be heard in confidential meetings before the Commission of Inquiry, without the presence of representatives of law enforcement and intelligence agencies.<br />
5. A new and autonomous crime of enforced disappearances should be included in the Criminal Code, following the definition given in the 2006 Convention or the protection of all persons against enforced disappearances, and with all the legal consequences flowing from this qualification.<br />
6. Investigation against and punishment of perpetrators should be in accordance with the law, and with all the guarantees of a fair trial. Perpetrators should be punished with appropriate penalties, with the clear exclusion of the death penalty.<br />
7. Investigations should be initiated whenever there are reasonable grounds to believe that an enforced disappearance has been committed, even if there has been no formal complaint.<br />
8. Measures should be taken to ensure that, in case of human rights violations, suspected perpetrators, including army personnel, are suspended from any official duties during the investigation and are tried only by competent ordinary courts, and not by other special tribunal, in particular military courts.<br />
9. Clear rules and dedicated institutions should be created in order to ensure the oversight and the accountability of law enforcement and intelligence agencies.<br />
10. Appropriate training should be given to members of law enforcement and intelligence agencies in the field of human rights, with particular focus on enforced disappearances.<br />
11. A comprehensive program for the protection of victims and witnesses should be set up, with a special attention to women as relatives of disappeared persons.<br />
12. The State has to guarantee the safety of those who have met with the WGEID during this visit and to protect them against any form of reprisals, threats or intimidation.<br />
13. A system of declaration of absence as a result of enforced disappearance should be issued in order to address the legal uncertainties created by the absence of the disappeared person.<br />
14. Financial aid should be provided to the relatives of the disappeared persons, in particular women and children, in order to help to cope with the difficulties generated by the absence of the disappeared person.
15. A program of integral reparation should be set up for all victims of enforced disappearances, including not only compensation but also full rehabilitation, satisfaction, including restoration of dignity and reputation, and guarantees of non-repetition.<br />
16. Ratify the Convention for the protection of all persons against enforced disappearances, and recognize the competence of the Committee to consider individual and inter-state complaints under article 31 and 32.
17. If requested by the Government of Pakistan, the United Nations and other international organizations should stand ready to provide technical assistance and consultative services, so as to implement the Working Group’s recommendations.<br />
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To conclude, a mother of a disappeared person has asked us to convey a message to all persons in charge of public affairs in Pakistan.<br />
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She asked: “If your child disappeared, what would you do?”<br />
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Vice chairman of VBMP said, “We would like to inform UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) Pakistan has not implemented the above recommendations. In fact the state security agencies and secret services have intensified their atrocities in Balochistan since the UN working group visited Balochistan.”<br />
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He said that after the WGEID’s visit 250 Baloch have been disappeared and 70 previously enforced-disappeared Baloch have been killed under-custody. Their bullet-ridden bodies have been dumped in different areas of Balochistan and Karachi. He said Pakistan doesn’t understand the language of diplomacy or recommendations. “If UN wants Pakistan to implement their recommendations they have to be strict and resolute and physically intervene to stop enforced-disappearances and Baloch genocide by Pakistan,” said Qadeer Baloch.<br />
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Karachi: Farzana Majeed has done her masters in biochemistry from Balochistan University, and now is enrolled in the MPhil programme. If she wasn’t a Baloch she’d be either wearing a white coat and working in a lab or, like many young people her age, struggling to get a job. Or at least turning up for her M Phil classes.<br />
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Instead, she has spent the last four years of her life sitting in protest camps, turning up for court hearings, speaking at political rallies.<br />
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All this while she has been waiting for some news about her brother Zakir Majeed. She has been hoping that she wouldn’t get the kind of news that some of her fellow protestors have received while sitting in the camp with her.<br />
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She spends her days reading and sharing the newspaper with other protesters, watching the passersby go by without even stopping to look at this young girl in a burqa, camped out on the pavement circled by rows and rows of pictures of the missing and the martyred.<br />
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She is absolutely scared of getting that kind of news.
Zakir Majeed was a student of Masters in English and the vice president of Baloch Students Organisation (Azad), a nationalist students’ organisation with the avowed aim of raising awareness about Baloch rights on the campuses. BSO Azad has lost a number of its senior leaders, but it still persists with its struggle for the rights of the Baloch people.<br />
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Zakir was returning from Mastung with a couple of friends when they were chased and stopped by a number of vehicles; one Vigo with tinted glasses, two Hiluxes, one was red. The details of the raid were told to Farzana by Zakir’s friends who were picked up with him but were allowed to go 15 minutes later.<br />
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“His friends called between zohar and asar,” says Farzana. “I didn’t want to believe them. I turned on the TV. There was a ticker on only one channel about Zakir’s abduction. The first thing that occurred to me was that I must not tell my mother. She was not keeping well and I didn’t want to stress her. I called up his other friends. They also confirmed it. I still didn’t tell my mother.”<br />
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Farzana contacted the representative of the Human Rights Commission in Khuzdar. Her younger brother went to Mastung along with Zakir’s friends who were witnesses to his kidnapping and lodged an FIR.
Farzana kept making flimsy excuses to her mother about why Zakir hadn’t returned home. “Then a couple of days later she had to go out of the house to pay her condolences to a family friend. I realised that people will tell her. She’ll find out because everybody around us knew so I decided to tell her. I said casually that the police had taken Zakir.” Farzana’s mother broke down and started to pray.<br />
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“And she is still at it, she is still praying,” says Farzana, in an irritated tone, like someone who has serious doubts about whether anybody is listening to their prayers, that her mother’s prayers are as futile as her own protests, as useless as the court hearings she has been attending for the past four years.<br />
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Zakir had been arrested before for his political activities. Charges were always the same; organising a strike, a protest, at worst vandalism, etc. “Every time his case came up, the session judge freed him. There was no case against him. He was a political worker not a criminal.”<br />
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Two weeks after Zakir was kidnapped, Farzana filed a writ petition in the Balochistan High Court. Then she held a press conference in the Press Club in Khuzdar, staged a protest outside the Quetta Press Club and then in May 2010 set up a protest camp in Karachi, along with the families of other missing person. This was her first extended stay in Karachi. She stayed in various places while protesting, sometimes in Gulshan-e-Iqbal, sometimes in Lyari. She had been to Karachi as a teenager for sightseeing but this time around she herself was the centre of attention. “People occasionally dropped by to express their solidarity. The international media came. TV cameras came. But they didn’t really do much. Nothing changed. I even spent my Eid days in the protest camp. Nothing changed.”<br />
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Then suddenly disfigured bodies of the missing persons started to appear with greater frequency. Farzana along with Abdul Qadeer Baloch, a leader of the Voice for Missing Baloch Persons, who she refers to as Mama Qadeer, went and set up a protest camp in Islamabad in the hope of putting pressure on the authorities, to get the media to talk about the disappearances. Like every other family of the missing persons, Farazana went and met Justice Javaid Iqbal. Justice Javaid Iqbal told her what he has told every other Baloch family: Shut down the protest camp, go home and your family members will be with you within a week.<br />
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In his capacity as a former senior Supreme Court judge, and the man responsible for investigating the cases of the missing people, Javaid Iqbal has played a curious role in perpetuating this nightmare. He has made so many false promises to so many families that many see him as part of the problem.<br />
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They shifted the protest camp to Quetta and Farzana went home to Khuzdar to spend some time with her family. She started receiving anonymous, threatening phone calls. “Forget Zakir Majeed, he is never coming back.”
While she was still in Khuzdar, a fresh wave of killing and dumping of bodies started.
They found Ghaffar Lango’s body.
Lango, father of five daughters and a son, had been missing for three years. He was found near Gadani, his head full of wounds inflicted with a blunt weapon.
Then they found Sameer Rind’s body.
Rind was 24 and missing for a year. His sister had been campaigning along with Farzana.
Then Jalil Reiki’s body was dumped.
Jalil had been missing for two years. His father Qadeer Baloch had been organising all the protests.
Then Sana Sangat’s body was found.
Sana had been missing for three years. His body had 28 bullets in it.<br />
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All were Zakir Majeed’s comrades, all were killed after years of captivity. Their bodies told stories of unspeakable brutalities.
Farzana’s life is built around demanding an end to these stories.
Farzana changed her phone number, left Khuzdar and went back to the protest camp.
For the first two years, Farzana and her family kept getting messages from Zakir Majeed. She has a mental picture of her brother and his whereabouts. He is in a dungeon, with his other friends. “He was kept in Quli Camp. Other people who were kept in that camp and released brought us his messages,” says Farzana. But she hasn’t received any message for the last six or seven months. “He used to send us his love. He took the buttons off his shirt and sent us, to reassure us that he was alive.”
Farzana speaks without any bitterness, in a matter of fact way even when she is rattling off the names of her brother Zakir Majeed’s dead colleagues and the number of wounds on their bodies. But she gets angry when she talks about herself. “Look at me. I am 27 years old. Zakir is now 25. I want my life. I have my needs. What kind of life is this? I am spending all my life at protest camps in the hope that they’ll not kill my brother? What kind of life is this?”
She has given up on the state of Pakistan and its people.“Isn’t it quite obvious that they hate us Baloch people? If Zakir has committed a crime why don’t they bring him to a court, put him on trial, and punish him? Why are they punishing the whole family, the whole nation?”<br />
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How does she spend her time at the protest camps? “I read,” she says. “Books about politics. Books about revolutionaries. I have read Che Guevera’s biography. I have read Spartacus. I am currently reading Musa Se Marx Tak. I am learning. I am learning about revolutions and other people’s struggles.”
Mohammed Hanif’s pamphlet The Baloch Who is Not Missing and Other Who Are is published by Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.</div>
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Australia : Baloch activists and students organised a protests demonstration against human rights violation in Balochistan, in front of Australian parliament on Saturday.<br />
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The participants of the protest were carrying placards demanding end to military operations in Balochistan. The participant of the protest also carried pictures the enforced-disappeared Baloch and victims of extra judicial killings.<br />
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Ahmer Rehman, a student activist from Balochistan, addressing the gathering said it was a known fact that Balochistan was occupied by Pakistan and Iran. However, the focus of his talk was Pakistan occupied Balochistan. He said, “In Balochistan the Baloch people are living their life under the shadow of guns and inhuman atrocities. Their physical survival is at stake because of the systematic and organised genocidal policies of Pakistan.” He said the Baloch struggle was the response to cultural domination, economical exploitation, Political subjugation and occupation of the Baloch land by the Pakistan.<br />
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He further said that in the last five years Pakistani military and intelligence agencies abducted thousands of Baloch political activists including Doctors, Lawyers, Students, Teachers, Journalists and Baloch intellectuals. “The Voice for Baloch Missing Persons documented more 14000 thousand Baloch have been abducted and they are in the custody of the Pakistani intelligence agencies,” Said Mr Ahmer Rehman. He said the VBMP further reported that more than seven hundred torture mutilated dead bodies of the Baloch missing persons were dumped across the roadsides and mountains in Balochistan and in the different cities of the Pakistan.<br />
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Mr Rehman said in the beginning of 2013 the Pakistani military conducted deadly military operations and carried out indiscriminate bombardments on civilian population in the Mashkay region of the Awaran district in Balochistan. Many women and children were killed and wounded in during Mashky operation, he added.<br />
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He said most recently Pakistani security forces sieged the village of Mangochar in Kalat district Balochistan. In this fresh operation many Baloch were killed and many of them were abducted by Pakistani military and their intelligence agencies.<br />
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His speech Mr Rehman said, “Keeping in view all these atrocities, I would also like to record my protest against the silence of international media. It is shameful that international media is not highlighting the state atrocities and the gross human rights violations, which Pakistani military and its intelligence agencies are committing against Baloch Nation. We request the free media of the world to please take notice of these Pakistani crimes and highlight them.”<br />
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He appealed to the Australian government in these words: “I appeal to the Australian government to take notice of these atrocities of Pakistan and raise the issue of Balochistan human rights situation in the international forums such including the United Nations. I would also like to appeal to the other civilized and democratic countries counties to take an immediate action and pressurise the Pakistani government to stop the Baloch genocide and ongoing military operations across the Balochistan.”<br />
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Karachi : The rally called for UN intervention in Balochistan and urged the international media to break their ‘criminal silence’ on Pakistani state atrocities in Balochistan.<br />
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Large numbers of Baloch women, children, and elderly have participated in a precession against military operations in Balochistan and media’s failure to report about Baloch genocide by Pakistan. The rally set off from Ath Chowk in Lyari, also known as Nawab Bugti Chowk, and marched all the way to Karachi Press Club. The Baloch National Front, an alliance of BSO-Azad and BNM, had given the call for the rally.<br />
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The participants of rally were carrying banners, placards and flags of Balochistan. They chanted slogans against Pakistan and its security agencies. They also painted walls and shutters of closed shops with graffiti including: “BALOCH WANT FREEDOM, NO VOTE NO ELECTION AND STOP BALOCH GENOCIDE.” The rally transformed into a huge demonstration after they reached to the Press Club.<br />
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Addressing the gathering the female activists of BSO-Azad demanded the international media to fulfil their journalistic responsibilities in Balochistan instead of distorting the facts. They demanded to know the whereabouts of thousands of abducted Baloch activists and why the international media and international human rights organisations were ‘criminally silent’ on gross human rights violations in Balochistan.<br />
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They said despite state’s [Pakistan’s] genocidal policies and the silence of international media and human rights organisations, the Baloch people’s struggle over the years has taken the form of a strong national struggle for independent Balochistan. “The Baloch freedom movement has gained international recognition,” The protester claimed.<br />
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“Today we are on the streets and protesting against the ‘criminal silence’ of the international media on Pakistan’s atrocities against Baloch people. We are rallying in order to bring the plight of the Baloch people to the attention of international powers and the international media,” the speakers said. The silence of UN and the international world about Pakistan’s atrocities against Baloch people was not only threat for Balochistan but it was also a danger to the peace of world, they said.<br />
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They urged the UN, US and the rest of the international community to stop supporting Pakistan and any aid to Pakistan must be conditioned to improvements of human rights and ending the genocide of Baloch people. “Because of world’s support and international media’s silence, Pakistan is continually committing crimes against humanity in the region.”<br />
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The participants of the rally said instead of supporting Pakistan the world powers should support the Baloch people’s struggle for freedom. A free Baloch state would help the world in their effort to eradicate extremism and terrorism which is fast spreading across the world with the support of Pakistan.<br />
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The protesters appealed to the UN to immediately intervene in Balochistan and bring the Pakistan rulers and military generals to International Court of Justice for their war crimes and crimes against humanity.
They urged the international media, especially, the BBC and Voice for America (VOA), to break their ‘criminal silence’ and expose the state barbarism against Baloch people.<br />
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Meanwhile in a separate statement the BNF [BSO-Azad and BNM) announced to boycott all Pakistani electronic media channels including a Balochi TV channel ‘VSH News’ in Balochistan due to the intentional censoring of Baloch Genocide.<br />
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The spokesperson the alliance said that the behaviour of Pakistani media channels in Balochistan is very negative and the channels have continuously been acting as the mouthpieces of Pakistani Army. The statement further read: “Pakistani channels completely ignored the massive rallies of BNF in Karachi and in Turbat, which shows the true intentions of Pakistani media." “The Balochi TV channel, VSH News, also failed to do the coverage protests of BNF."<br />
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The representative further said that the media channels did not only conceal the brutal military operations in Mashkay, Gehbon, Mastung and other parts of Balochistan but also acted as the representatives of Pakistani forces.<br />
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“Due to this negative role of Pakistani media channels the BNF has come to the decision that all Pakistani media channels including VSH TV will be banned in Balochistan for unspecified period of time,” said BNF representative.<br />
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SIX years after Hafiz Saeed Rehman went missing from Sariab Road Quetta, the police dug up a grave to look for him. The High Court ordered that a body be exhumed because Quetta police, after giving half a dozen other explanations for his disappearance, had started saying that Hafiz Saeed had been killed. His father Allah Bakhsh Bangulzai who has been campaigning for his son’s release for nine years, didn’t believe the police. “I knew it wasn’t his grave, I knew my son wasn’t dead,” insists Allah Bakhsh, who runs a small grocery store near his house. Allah Baksh Bangulzai’s faith wasn’t just the faith of a father who can’t bring himself to believe that his eldest son might be dead. He had seen with his own eyes the body that was buried in that grave. Nine year earlier looking for his newly disappeared son Allah Baksh had done the rounds of the mortuaries. “They showed me two bodies,” says Allah Baksh. He had a really good look. “They were both my son’s age. One boy had his throat slit. Another one had his legs cut off just below his knees. I was relieved neither of them was my son.”<br />
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Hafiz Saeed became one of almost 1300 disappeared Baloch citizens whose families have been holding almost a perpetual vigil for their release. They travel from distant villages and towns to hold three-month-long protest camps outside Islamabad and Karachi Press Club but our press usually ignores them. When Voice of Missing Baloch Persons recently held a rally to mark one thousand days of their protest, no TV channels covered it.<br />
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After his visit to the local morgue, Allah Baksh was convinced that his son was alive. For next six years Allah Baksh’s son kept making fleeting appearances in various reports, official documents and court hearings. Once it was admitted in Balochistan High Court that he was in the custody of our intelligence organisations. Once he was told that his son had been sentenced to 25 years’ imprisonment because he was a terrorist. Then the high court was told that he was doing his time in Gujranwala jail. But after six years of running up down the country and knocking at every one’s door Allah Baksh stood besides a grave waiting for a body to be exhumed, certain in his heart that it wouldn’t be his son.<br />
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Hafiz Saeed left his home on the evening of July 4, 2003. It was a Friday and there had been a huge bomb blast in the area. Forty people died in that blast and soon after a curfew was imposed. “He came home after his maghreb prayers, got on his bicycle and left,” remembers Allah Baksh. He repeats the same details over and over again as if he has missed something and if he can remember the exact sequence of events, he’ll find out where his son is right now. “There was a curfew in our part of the city, the curfew started at 6pm and Hafiz left home at 6.15.” Six years of searching his memory and he still has no answer why his son left home just after the curfew came into effect. “May be he thought if you are on a bicycle nobody will bother you. May be he didn’t know that a curfew has been imposed. I don’t know what he was thinking.”<br />
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Hafiz Saeed was 25 when he disappeared. He was an obedient and bright son. He had done his Hifz-i-Quran by the age of 15. He went on to do his matric privately. He was teaching other children Hifz-i-Quran at Iqra School. He was the eldest in the family and was engaged to be married a year after he disappeared.<br />
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With his madressha background, his teaching job, his beard and his shalwar above his ankle, a lot of people, specially the security forces, tend to jump to the conclusion that Hafiz must have been somehow involved with some religious cult, some jihadi organisation. “He never did any of those things. After finishing his teaching work at school, he came straight to my shop in Gharib Abad and helped me out. He had cousins who were also madressah teachers. Sometimes they visited. I never heard anything political. He was very pious, yes, but he was a straight boy. He was the eldest of my children, he was close to me. I would have known.”<br />
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Hafiz Saeed didn’t return home that night. “My son had never not spent a night at home. I got worried. I started looking.”<br />
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Hafiz Saeed and his family had no personal enmity. His father assumed that Saeed had been picked up by the law-enforcing agencies for violating the curfew. He thought about kidnapping for ransom but told himself that who would expect a ransom from someone as poor as him. He registered an FIR, did the rounds of the hospitals and asked everyone he could.<br />
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“Fifteen days later a man came looking for me,” says Allah Baksh. “He came on a motorbike, introduced himelf as Yasin from MI.” Yasin from MI asked Allah Baksh if his son Hafiz Saeed was involved with any Jihadi organisation. “I told him that he wasn’t involved with anyone or anything except his teaching and my shop.” The man on the motorbike assured Allah Baksh that MI will investigate and if he was with any of the law-enforcing agencies, he’ll be released.” For next three months Allah Baksh kept looking but didn’t hear anything from anywhere. He filed a petition in the high court. The petition has been going on for eight years, now, but not once has he seen a glimpse of his son despite various orders by the court saying that a meeting should be arranged between the missing person and his family. He has not had any kind of contact with his son during this time.<br />
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In the intial hearing a statement submitted on behalf of the ISI said that Hafiz Saeed had been arrested after he was injured in the bomb blast and he was being interrogated. Crime Branch also confirmed in a separate report that Hafiz Saeed was in the custody of ‘sensitive agencies’. The high court instructed that a meeting be arranged with the family. The meeting never happened. Instead Crime Branch submitted another report, this time saying that Hafiz Saeed wasn’t in the custody of ‘sensitive agencies’.<br />
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Allah Baksh wrote letters to President, to Chief Justice but never heard back. For 11 months he sat in a protest camp outside Quetta Press Club. For all these years there was no sighting, no news of his son but he didn’t give up.<br />
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Then out of the blue a list surfaced in Quetta High Court in 2009. There were 13 missing people on it. They were all supposed to be serving time in jails. Hafiz Saeed was on it. According to the list he had been court martialled and sentenced to 25 years’ imprisonment. The report said that he was in Gujranwala jail.<br />
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Allah Baksh managed to contact HRCP who sent one of its people to Gujranwala jail. The jail authorities said they didn’t have Hafiz Saeed. Allah Bakhsh went back to the high court and this time police filed a submission that Hafiz Saeed had actually been killed in that blast and buried.<br />
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By now Hafiz Saeed had been suspected of being involved in the blast, suspected of being injured in the blast, and now six years later his family was being told that Hafiz Saeed had actually died in the blast. Allah Baksh reminded the court that his son had left home four hours after the blast happened. High court ordered a DNA test. Police were basically saying that one of the bodies that they had shown Allah Baksh six years ago was his son’s. “I had had a good look at those bodies,” Allah Baksh again gives a graphic description of the slit throat and decapitated legs. “That wasn’t my son.”<br />
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Before they exhumed the body that wasn’t his son’s, they gave him some clothes and asked if he recognised them. “These clothes didn’t belong to my son. After he became a Hafiz-i-Quran he never wore a shirt with buttons. But just to make sure I took these clothes to show his mother. And she also said that these were not his clothes.”<br />
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The body was exhumed and as Allah Baksh had predicted it wasn’t his son. He was relieved. But not for long. He says that secretly he envies people who have found the bodies of their loved-ones. “They have buried them and now they mourn them,” he says. “All I can do is wait.”<br />
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And while he waits, Allah Baksh can’t stop thinking of the events of that fateful evening. “What I don’t understand is that he came home after offering his maghrib prayers. There had already been a bomb blast. Then he took his bicycle and went out. There was curfew outside. I don’t know why he went out.”<br />
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Mohammed Hanif is an author and journalist. His pamphlet The Baloch Who Is Not Missing and Others Who Are is published by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.Sarbaaz Balochhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17723635312832714118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428795976536110640.post-85815810402469410262013-01-30T08:07:00.000-06:002013-01-30T08:30:01.435-06:00Pakistani security forces attacked across Balochistan, Two PAF personnel killed in Pasni<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="itemText" style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">According to Balochistan national media reports at least three people, including two personnel of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF), were killed and another PAF personal was injured in Pasni, Gwadar District. The Pakistan Air Force personnel were shopping at the Zareen Markeet when armed men on motorbike opened fire on them. </span></span></span><br />
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<span class="itemText" style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Resultantly, three people, including two PAF personnel and a shopkeeper were killed, while a PAF official sustained bullet injuries. The deceased were identified as Muhammad Ibrahim from Skardu, Khurram Shahzad from Rawalpindi and the shopkeeper identified as Elahi Bukhsh, a resident of Mashkey Balochistan, while the injured was identified as Nabi Shah. </span></span></span><br />
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<span class="itemText" style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Meanwhile, Gwahram Baloch, a spokesperson of the Baloch Liberation Front (B L F) has claimed responsibility for the attack on Pakistan Air Force personnel. He said Pakistani security forces were on the target of Baloch freedom fighters and warned the general public to stay away from Pakistani security forces personnel, check posts and vehicles. </span></span></span><br />
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<span class="itemText" style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">“Our main target was the PAF personnel and we regret that a local shopkeeper was also killed as the result of our attack,” said Gwahram Baloch. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; line-height: 18px;">He further claimed that fighters from his organisation have also killed a Frontier Corps (F.C) man in Prom region of Panjgur town in Balochistan. </span><br />
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<span class="itemText" style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In a separate attack several worker of FWO (Frontier Work Organisation), a construction and military engineering branch of the Pakistani Army, have reportedly been injured in Panjgur, Balochistan. </span></span></span><br />
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<span class="itemText" style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Mr Baloch has also warned the drug traders in Panjgur to mince their ways. “We warn the drug sellers to stop selling lethal drugs to local Baloch youth. Otherwise the Baloch sarmachar (freedom fighters) will attack them. “ </span></span></span><br />
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<span class="itemText" style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A man, identified as Muhammad Jamal, was shot dead by unknown men, riding a motorbike, at Al-Faisal Chowk in Khuzdar on Monday. </span></span></span><br />
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<span class="itemText" style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">BLA spokesperson Jiand Baloch claimed responsibility for gunning him down and said that he was a staff of Pakistan’s secret agencies. </span></span></span><br />
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<span class="itemText" style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Three Pakistani security forces personnel have also reportedly been killed in Soro region of Mand town in Balochistan. Baloch Republican Army (BRA) spokesperson, Sarbaaz Baloch, claimed responsibility for the attack, adding that fighters from his organisation attack a check post of Pakistani forces and injured several personnel of Frontier Corps. </span></span></span><br />
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Zahidan : We fear their execution will happen soon, thus asking international community and human rights defenders to intervene and put pressure on the Iranian government to halt the prisoners’ execution and provide them open and fair trial with access to their own defense lawyers. <br />
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Iranian official television has broadcasted forced confession of some Baloch political Prisoners most of them were arrested in March, April and May 2012. They confess of their involvement in assassination of Mr. Mulavi Mostafa Jungozahi. <br />
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Most of the people in the region believe that Mulavi Janguzahi has been assassinated by the regime’s own security forces, in order to justify their plan for arresting Baloch activists and terrorizing people in Balochistan. Even Mulavi Mostafa Jangozahi's family members have rejected these people’s involvement in the assassination plot. <br />
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Given the regime’s fear of uprising by oppressed nationalities people against open discrimination, it is using its most fearful instrument of forceful confession and execution in the regions of oppressed nationalities. In the recent weeks the regime has convicted to death also Kurdish and Arab political prisoner in Iran. They also have been shown in TV where they have confessed their connection to foreign countries and assassinations. <br />
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It is the Iranian authorities’ normal practice in Balochistan to execute political prisoners after their forced televised confessions. We fear their execution will happen soon, thus asking international community and human rights defenders to intervene and put pressure on the Iranian government to halt the prisoners’ execution and provide them open and fair trial with access to their own defense lawyers.<br />
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The hunger strike camp of the families of Baloch missing persons entered its 1055th day in total and 55th day in Karachi. <br />
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A delegation of BNM Gwadar visited the camp here in Karachi and expressed solidarity with the families of abducted Baloch and assured them of their support. While talking to the family members of victims the BNM delegation said that since the occupation of Balochistan by Pakistani and Irani forces Baloch intellectuals and revolutionary sons of soil are struggling to regain the sovereignty of Baloch state. It is the determined struggle and sacrifices of Baloch sons that today the struggle has turned into a full fledge freedom movement.<br />
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“Occupying forces have escalated the army operation and Baloch genocide in Balochistan, state is trying to frighten the people of Kohlu, Kahan, Dera Bugti and Mashky by using brutal and violent methods,” Said Vice chairman, General Secretary of VBMP sister of Zakir Majeed and Mehlab Baloch daughter of Deen Mohammad to the delegation.<br />
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They said the Pakistani power drunken Army is torturing Baloch women and children, many women were disappeared by Pakistani forces in Dera Bugti few days back. Situation in Khuzdar is also similar to the one in Dera Bugti, Kohlu, Kahan and elsewhere in Balochistan. Pakistani army is burning the houses of Balochs to build army cantonments.<br />
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Pakistani forces have read the book of hitler to brutalize Baloch nation for the land and resources of Balochistan, Said Mama Qadeer while talking to delegation. He further said that Pakistani forces know very well they have to leave this land sooner or later then I don’t understand why are they using the name of Islam.<br />
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The families of abducted Baloch appealed to international community to take immediate notice of Pakistani barbarism in Balochistan.<br />
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Karachi: The hunger strike camp of families of enforced disappeared Baloch reached to 1054 days. A delegation of BSO Azad Tump zone visited the camp of disappeared Baloch to sympathize with the families and they assured their support. They said the burden we have on our shoulders is for the welfare of our struggle not for individiuals. If any one takes our freedom from us they may but they cannot take away the right of sacrifice from us. Said the spokesman of BSO Azad delegation.<br />
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Today Pakistani military is inflicting brutalities on Baloch living in every part of Balochistan, the enemy state is telling the Baloch with force that they are slave and will have to live the life of slaves or else they would be killed one by one.<br />
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“The enemy is ready to strike any time if I die while struggling for the recovery of Baloch disappeared person, I should be wrapped in Balochistan flag and buried in ancestral graveyard” Said Mama<br />
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Qadeer The Voice chairman of Baloch missing persons (VBMP). He said Baloch are fighting for their freedom. Sacrificing for freedom is the duty of every conscious person whether young or old.<br />
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To prolong the occupation of Balochistan the state is using the traitors against Baloch national liberation struggle with its policies of votes and elections. But the Baloch nation has also vowed not to bargain the sacrifices of martyred and abducted Baloch. Baloch will never become part of the occupier’s parliament and death squads whose hands are red with the Baloch blood.<br />
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<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">At least eight innocent Baloch including a child and a woman have been killed by Pakistan’s armed forces in different areas of Balochistan on Monday.</span><span class="itemText" style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px;"><br />Sources reported that Pakistani forces raided and attacked a house in Besima area of Balochistan. Two occupants, Mr Qasum Baloch and his sister Rozina Baloch, were killed due indiscriminate firing and shelling on their house.<br /><br />Meanwhile, in another incident two men have reportedly been killed in Panjgur in a gun battle against Pakistani Army. Unconfirmed sources reported that a number of Pakistan military personnel have also been killed in the clash. The bodies of the two men are said be still in the custody of military and their identity could not ascertained until the filing of this report.<br /><br />Separately, two bullet-riddled bodies have been discovered, in Haidari canal, from the Pir Koh area of Dera Bugti on Monday. The bodies were taken to the PPL hospital in Sui for autopsy where the deceased were identified as Bahian S/O Arz Mohammad Bugti and Raza Mohammad (Razzu) S/O Gul Mohammad Bugti. According to hospital sources the victims were shot multiple times in the head and upper torso.<br /><br />The central spokesperson of the Baloch Republican Party claimed that the victims were from the thirteen people abducted during a military offensive on Saturday from Pirkoh area.<br /><br />The BRP’s press release further claimed that a man and his daughter were killed when a rocket hit their hut. The deceased have been named as Buzoo Bugti s/o Sher Khan Bugti and his little daughter while his wife and his daughter-in-law were severely wounded. The press release read: “Dozens of houses have been also destroyed when Pakistani security forced bombarded the area Pirkoh area of Dera Bugti.”<br /><br />Pakistan federal government has imposed governor rule in Balochistan and given a free hand to the Frontier Corps (FC) to carry out targeted operation across Balochistan after over a hundred shia Hazars were killed by allegedly state back Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, an Islamic extremist group, in Quetta.<br /><br />However, the Baloch political parties argue that the governor rule was imposed to intensify the military operation against pro-independence Baloch people to pave the way for upcoming elections in Pakistan. They Baloch political parties allege that Lashkar-e-Jhangvi are supported and protected by Pakistani security forces that is why they can operate freely and with impunity. The main victims of the governor rule are and will be the innocent Baloch people, the Baloch nationalists say. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3;">“The enemies of civilized world have waged a war against the Baloch nation, which confirms the fact that the Pakistani state machinery is trying to wipe out the secular Baloch nation,” said the Baloch patriotic leader Hyrbyair Marri.<br /><br />He further said that, Pakistan couldn’t deceive the world with her double standards and it has failed to paint Baloch nation as a religious extremist force. This failed endeavour of Pakistan was to deprive the Baloch nation of help and support by the democratic and civilised world. The Baloch nation proved at different instances that it is not against any one on ethnic or religious basis. The Baloch nation is struggling only to defend their motherland.<br /><br />The Baloch leader said that, “failed in quashing the Baloch struggle through threats, bribes, disappearances and killings the occupying state is now trying to use the foot soldiers of ISI and MI with the name of Pakistan Difa Council (Defence of Pakistan Council).” This council, Mr Marri said, is involved in sabotaging the peace process in Afghanistan and is a big supporter of stopping NATO supplies. They spew hatred against America and entire West during the rallies in every city of Pakistan. Not confined to this, their leaders even include people like Hafiz Saeed, who is said to be the mastermind of Mumbai Attacks and America has put head money on him.<br /><br />This so-called council considers Baloch freedom activists as non-Muslims and has issued edict of Jihad against the Baloch freedom struggle. This clearly shows that instead of protecting Islam they are more interested in preserving and protecting the geographical existence of Pakistan which is a black stain on the name of religion.<br /><br />Mr. Marri further said that now is the time to judge whether America is going to support the jihadist state of Pakistan, who is backing the attacks against ISAF and America, or they will stand with the secular and liberal Baloch nation. The Baloch nation is fighting against these religious fanatics since long for its existence. In broadest sense the Baloch nation is not only fighting its war but also trying to protect the whole world from religious extremists that are being nurtured by Pakistan and Iran.<br /><br />The Baloch leader said that the world has to take a stern stance about Pakistan [nuclear weapons] exactly in similar fashion they’re putting pressure on Iran to stop developing nuclear weapons. Because it has now become clear that due to the soft stance of US Pakistan has come into position that she is able to blackmail US and the Afghanistan war is showing very disappointing results which is not only dangerous for America but it is alarming for the entire region.<br /><br />Hayrbyair Marri said US, Europe and all other civilized and democratic countries should now support the Baloch nation in getting their independence from the occupying states of Iran and Pakistan. He said the occupying states should withdraw from Balochistan like Britain, France, Spain, Portugal and Italy had left their colonies without having need of any referendum. Similarly in recent past Iraq was forced to withdraw from Kuwait, following the same rule, these two occupying states (Iran and Pakistan) should leave Balochistan.<br /><br />He said Baloch are the only power that can not only help bring peace in the region but they’re also natural ally of the civilised world in International war against religious extremism. Pakistan and Iran are trying to brutally crush the Baloch people and now even mass graves are being found in Balochistan which illustrates that thousands of abducted Baloch might be tortured to death and buried in unknown mass graves.<br /><br />Mr Marri praised the statements of Senator John Mccain and Ryan Crocker in which they expressed concerned that Pakistan was providing safe heaven to the enemies of America and creating problems for them (Americans). He said if Pakistan had any respect for International laws, she would not have given safe heaven to Osama-Bin-Laden, world’s most wanted man, near the military base in Abbottabad and neither would have she allowed Organisations like Defence of Pakistan Council hold rallies to incite people against West.<br /><br />He said the statements of American leaders would have been more affective if they had pressurise their own government to review their policy about Pakistan’s double standards. He said, America should take action as it took against Libya, Yemen and Egypt to save human lives whereas Pakistan and Iran have full immunity to carry out the massacre of Baloch people. Mr Marri said as long as America and West doesn’t end its discriminatory policies and start treating all nations equally, monster like Pakistan will continue to take advantage and destroy the peace in the region. </span><br /><br /><strong style="color: #666666;">Courtesy: BalochWarna</strong></div>Sarbaaz Balochhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17723635312832714118noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428795976536110640.post-41650482720866307992012-04-21T06:17:00.000-05:002012-04-21T06:19:04.136-05:00My children's life is not more precious than the life of thousands of Baloch martyrs of liberation struggle: Dr Allah Nazar Baloch<img align="left" alt="" src="http://www.balochjohd.com/uploads/xnews/topics/b03d3eaa-6a98-fa24.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><strong>Occupied Balochistan:</strong>Baloch Pro-independence leader and Guerrilla Commander Dr. Allah Nazar Baloch in a statement has said that on April 18 Tehreek e Nafaz e Aman has issued a threat to the newspapers and media to target his young sons Nodan Baloch and Tamoochan Baloch is in fact a threat primarily issued by Pakistan Army and I.S.I in order to cover up their heinous crimes against Baloch nation and humanity and to hide their blood thirsty face to the world as they are using fake names to propagate against Baloch freedom fighters and install fear in the minds of Baloch masses.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">But, my sons are not above the national struggle, neither my sons nor I are above the thousands of martyrs and the people who are struggling for Baloch freedom. And Baloch nation already knows the barbarian actions and character of the occupying forces.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">The threat to kill my young sons is aimed to pressurize the people like me to surrender and leave the struggle behind and it is also a hideous attempt to create fear and anxiety among Baloch people. But, we would like to make it very clear to the Pakistan Army, I.S.I and their instruments and Baloch traitors that such criminal intentions and acts will not amaze us at all.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">Thousands of Balochs are forcefully disappeared, hundreds were murdered during detention and their mutilated bodies were thrown, while killing old veterans like Sardar Akbar Bugti, Sado Mari, Haji Jan Mohammad Mari, Naseer Kamalan, Haji Mohammad Ramzan Zehri, Hafiz Abdul Qadir Nadarmani Mengal, 13 years old Majeed Zehri, young Waheed alias Balach, young Yasir Jan, sister of Brahmdagh Bugti, the martyrdom of her young girl and hundreds of other such incidents could not budge the Baloch nation from its struggle for independence then their new atrocities will not de-track the Baloch nation from obtaining its national aims and objectives.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">The fact of the matter is that all of these inhumane acts are being committed against Baloch because of the Pakistani occupation and the authority of its murderous military and secret agencies over occupied Balochistan. The essence of our struggle is to end this authority so that no other oppressor would be able to disappear, kill or threaten to do so to the Baloch sons. Baloch national struggle is being carried out in accordance to the international laws, Islamic laws, natural laws and according to the internationally recognized charter of human rights and is genuine as well as on the right path.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">Just like Pakistan Army could not stop the Bengalis to achieve their independence after mass murdering three million of their population, similarly they cannot stop the Baloch movement with the genocide of Baloch. However, those Balochs who are taking side with Pakistan Army, I.S.I and other murderous instruments and have become their agents and death squad members are doing nothing except for blackening their souls. They should refrain themselves from these hostile acts, otherwise they will have to face the same fate of those Biharis, Al-Shams, Al-Badar, Jamait-e-Islami’s Bengali traitors who fought against Bengali liberation movement and sided with Pakistan Army. These traitors are neither being accepted by their colonial master Pakistan nor Bangladesh is giving them citizenship. Even after 41 years of independence they are still rotting in the temporary camps and jails. It will be an honor for a member of independence struggle like me if mine or my children’s blood is used for the irrigation of freedom movement.</span><br />
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<span class="itemPostDate"></span><span class="itemStats"></span>Imagine
you are forced to live your all life alone without any relative in your
life, forcedly taken, beaten & killed & you didnt got the
chance to see their faces for the last time. The very thought of living
alone makes you shiver because it is hardly impossible for a human to
even live a second without anybody giving you a back support.<br /><br />Now
lets put a woman in this example when her husband was dragged, beaten,
manhandled & later bristled with bullets infront of her and the
children, she suffered the most horrific sight but didn’t flinched
because of her children, when the assailant were done they slapped her
& ordered her not to drag any judicial inquiries in this or she
will face the dire consequences. She didn’t reacted nor did she went
for the police neither she went for judicial inquiries hoping that the
worst was over, but she was wrong.<br /><br />The story I am writing is not
a fairy tale nor did it happen in ‘Palestine’, ‘Kashmir’, ‘Bahrain’ or
‘Syria’ it happened right here in ‘Balochistan’ the wretched land under
Pakistan’s oppression. The woman I am talking about is Mahir Bibi Marri
(The Iron Lady) who suffered the trauma but didn’t suffer it once but
dozens of time, her heart aches but she doesn’t give up, it’s like she
gets beaten up everytime but doesn’t want to stay down, just like the
Pakistani Intelligence services would say “She wont give up”.<br /><br />Her
Husband Mir Humedan Marri was killed by Pakistan Army when they raided
her house dragged, assaulted & later put dozens of bullets in his
body. The day she saw her husband murdered is still fresh in her mind
when she was interviewed on National Media, it was like she was
referring to yesterday, she remembered how Pakistan army threw her from
here to there without respecting her as a woman and she remembers how
this same army who call themselves “Pure Army” kicked her children
while they resisted their father’s arrest.<br /><br />The day 9th September
1985 to her is the day when she saw the horror of this vicious army as
they took shots after shots at her husband like he was a piñata or an
animal ready to be slaughtered, “Nothing can be described but pure
hatred & evil, as they killed my husband, my son & now I don’t
know where my nephews are” Says Mahir Bibi Marri.<br /><br />Truly hatred
and evil is the word to describe them, the way they have killed and
dumped Baloch political activists is not human nature. Mahir Bibi Marri
with tear in her eyes haven’t seen her son for 6 years, Mr Kamesa Marri
who she says was her last support and perhaps her last hope to love
this life has not returned after 25 August 2006, The day when Pakistan
army started bombarding Dera Bugti & Kohlu area. Mahir Bibi Marri
says that she doesn’t believe her son is dead but he’s rather missing
& abducted by Pakistan army, but it doesn’t looks like that what
she believes is true because on that day 20 Baloch locals were killed
and their bodies were not recovered, According to Baloch sources they
were buried in a mass grave to hide the shame of Pakistan army.<br /><br />She
suffered more than any human being could suffer in one lifetime but the
sad part is this that her suffering didn’t stopped on her son but
continued her three nephews & a cousin for whom she went on a
hunger strike in Karachi press club have been abducted by ISI (Inter
Service Intelligence).<br /><br />On 1st June 2008 her nephews Mr. Abdul
Rehman Marri Age 36, Mr. Umar Marri Age 25 and Mr. Jan Ali Marri Age
20, were traveling from Jalarhi to Quetta but when they reached Balbali
Checkpost near Harnai Quetta they were stopped by Pakistani Armed
Forces and were arrested, Her cousin who is a 70 year old blacksmith
from Quetta was abducted from Chaman by Pakistan forces, after the
arrest the family of the missing persons have not received any
information regarding them, not even the local police wanted to
cooperate.<br /><br />Mahir Bibi Marri (The Iron Lady) lost her husband,
her son & her relatives but she still is fighting, hoping that
somehow, someway, someone will wake up to these injustices and would
provide her the justice for which she sits in a hunger strike but for
sure the justice will not come from Pakistan judicial courts. Lastly
Mahir Bibi Marri in her interview concluded “Whatever happened to my
husband, my son & my nephews I am still going to protest because it
is not about my family but the family of the thousands of Baloch who
lost their loved ones in the hands of Pakistan army, I would like to
plead to those International Powers to investigate and bring justice to
the suffering Baloch families rather than turning a blind eye & a
silence as a response”.<br /><br /><strong><em>“Bring Justice, Bring Peace,
The motives are different but we are humans after all and we can get
along peacefully.” Diagoh Murad.</em></strong>Sarbaaz Balochhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17723635312832714118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428795976536110640.post-61377350571382633172011-11-01T06:45:00.004-06:002011-11-01T06:46:59.808-06:00Nine months on: Gwadar fishermen still in Somali captivity<img align="left" alt="" src="http://www.balochjohd.com/uploads/xnews/topics/2e0741ec-6d2e-56af.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">The fishermen, who were captured by Somali pirates, along with their launch back in February, include Ibrahim, Rahim Bakhsh, Tahir, Saleh Muhammad, Qadir Bakhsh, Younus Muhammad Ali, Khuda Bakhsh, Rafiq and Hanif.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Initially, the victims were in contact with their families through satellite phones. They informed their relatives that the pirates were demanding money for their release. However, it’s been months now since the families last heard from them.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">The families said they have held two meetings with their MPA and provincial Minister for Fisheries Hammal Kalmti to seek his help, but no steps had been taken by him so far. They added that whenever they call him now, they are told he is either in Islamabad or in London.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">Owner of the ill-fated fishing boat Khuda Baksh told that they had also contacted human rights activist Ansar Burney in this regard, but he too had not paid any heed to the matter.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">The families who are worried sick about the health and safety of their loved ones urged the media to bring their predicament to the forefront in hopes of moving the government to fulfill its responsibilities.</span></div>Sarbaaz Balochhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17723635312832714118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428795976536110640.post-56486890514440816172011-10-02T07:56:00.002-05:002011-10-02T07:58:46.423-05:00Despite the limited resources Daily Tawar continues its publication for seven years.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXG1TfXJREmASgQc3KJZB9eXC4KBr1VVGKLlkPIXQSgspCs94yQuMcvPhu4hfZfdr8mOfKEpKmSpdTlwKxwkkl3LBGWCuwboHXVGXcOOoEiRj8LV1M6lV8su4P-LoteU0fJzW2oPLdnVY/s1600/2e0741ec-42c8-c72f.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXG1TfXJREmASgQc3KJZB9eXC4KBr1VVGKLlkPIXQSgspCs94yQuMcvPhu4hfZfdr8mOfKEpKmSpdTlwKxwkkl3LBGWCuwboHXVGXcOOoEiRj8LV1M6lV8su4P-LoteU0fJzW2oPLdnVY/s1600/2e0741ec-42c8-c72f.jpg" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
<span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Pakistani intelligence agencies in the provincial capital of Balochistan pressurized the news agents and newspaper seller to stop selling</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"> Daily Tawar</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">; in case of denying they will be responsible for their lives.</span></strong></span><br />
<strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee;">Occupied Balochistan</span></strong><strong style="color: #666666;">:</strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">After censored ship from intelligence agencies for seven years Daily Tawar circulation stopped in the provincial capital of Balochistan. According to the sources a leading Urdu newspaper in Balochistan has been receiving threats by Pakistani intelligence agencies for several times in order to stop its publication but it didn’t.Daily Tawar Editor in chief” Khadam Lehri in an interview stated that he for too many times was threatened by Pakistani intelligence agencies for leaving ‘’Daily Tawar”</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"> It should be noted that before some days </span><a href="http://www.balochjohd.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=562" rel="external" style="border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;">Tawar head office in Karachi was surrounded by Pakistani intelligence agencies</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"> for many days, working journalists were life threatened and supply of electricity cut by intelligence agencies to head office in Karachi. Latest sources from Quetta said after </span><a href="http://www.surfcanyon.com/search?f=sl&q=Pakistan&partner=wtigca" style="border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="scSearchLink">Pakistan</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;">’s notorious intelligence agencies lives threatens to working journalists of Tawar; they are using different tactics to pressurize staff, News agents and printing offices to stop working for Daily Tawar. After their useless efforts ,intelligence agencies now planned to intimidate tawar’s with their pressure tactics, they now choose to physically abolish the Newspaper, its staff and news agents.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"> According to the editor of Daily Tawar” Yesterday notorious Pakistani intelligence agencies in the provincial capital of Balochistan pressurized the news agents and newspaper seller to stop selling Daily Tawar; in case of denying they will be responsible for their lives.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"> Daily Tawar a leading Urdu newspaper despite the limited sources not only continues its publication but also followed the real function of mass media. Tawar despite several threats from pressure group continues serving </span><a href="http://www.surfcanyon.com/search?f=sl&q=Baloch&partner=wtigca" style="border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="scSearchLink">Baloch</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"> nation for seven years but it may not anymore because of rotten situation in Balochistan” said Khadam Lehri Baloch”</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"> Daily Tawar in its today’s publication wrote” pressure on Tawar newspaper has increased, working journalists of Tawar including news agents and beuro chiefs in provincial capital of Balochistan; are life threatened and circulations of leading paper in Quetta has been stopped today. A student from Balochistan university on the bet of anonymity said” we in this modern era are deliberately being deprived by Pakistani intelligence agencies to know the current situation in Balochistan”.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cccccc;"> However Mr. Lehri editor of Daily Tawar said now intelligence agencies after threatening me many times; now pressurizing the staff and news agents of Daily Tawar. There are almost 120 reporters, correspondents and news agents working for Daily Tawar at various places of Balochistan, their lives are in danger. Tawar staffs including people of Balochistan once again urge the Reporter without Borders, International Association of Journalists, International Union of Journalists, Union of Journalists, and including national and international organizations to call emergency meetings, make commissions’ in order to save hundreds of journalists in Balochistan.</span><br />
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He further said that backed by helicopters, a convoy of around 25 -30 military armoured vehicles and two Vigo Jeeps of intelligence officials arrived Gogord and Hapsi regions of Balochistan. They have been randomly picking people and interrogating them about a five-page-long list of names which they carry with them. According to the intelligence agencies personal these names are of supposed Sarmachars (Freedom Fighters) who they say are in the remote areas of Dasht and Mand mountains. Helicopters have been seen hovering over nearby mountains earlier on Tuesday morning.<br />
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“They are brutally torturing innocent people who refused to cooperate with the military or simply say they have no information about the named person on the security forces' list. There have also been reports of skirmish between the <a href="http://www.surfcanyon.com/search?f=sl&q=Baloch&partner=wtigca" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: initial; color: #2a75c5; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="scSearchLink">Baloch</a> fighters and Pakistani security forces in the remote mountainous areas”, explained <a href="http://www.gwank.org/vob/news/pakistani_forces_in_makouran20110327.ra" rel="external" style="background-color: transparent; color: #2a75c5; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="">Radio Gwank reporter</a> from an unknown location in Balochistan.<br />
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The correspondent said that the security forces have been stopping people at check posts and their mobile phones have been confiscated for unknown reasons. Military is still pouring into the Gawader region and it is feared that they plan to intensify their atrocities in coastal regions of Balochistan. </div>Sarbaaz Balochhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17723635312832714118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428795976536110640.post-30544178057492721922011-09-27T09:59:00.002-05:002011-09-27T09:59:26.333-05:00Baloch poet’s life is in danger: VBMP<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><img align="left" alt="" src="http://www.balochwarna.com/modules/news/images/topics/561bfa76-36da-8f71.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" /></span><br />
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Nasruallah Baloch and Qadeer Baloch in their joint statement said that after the abduction of Baloch political activists and student the state agencies are now abducting Baloch social activists, poet and journalists. They said renowned Baloch poet Shakir Shad works for a social organisation in Islamabad and on 22 September he was going to his native town of Pedarak from Karachi when the passenger bus he was travelling by was stopped at Ormara FC check post. The security forces first asked Mr Shakir Shad to alight from the bus for a routine body-search. As soon as the Baloch poet stepped out of the bus he was arrested and driven towards an unknown location.<br />
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His organisation has expressed serious concerns about his arrest and disappearance. They said Mr Shad’s life is at real danger. They urged the Human Rights Organisations to take immediate notice of this incident and play their due role for the safe and early release of the Baloch poet and social activist.</div>Sarbaaz Balochhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17723635312832714118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428795976536110640.post-83875042281313481792011-09-15T09:05:00.002-05:002011-09-15T09:05:25.907-05:00Pakistan's dirty war against Baloch people: Four female teachers injured in acid attack<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><img align="left" alt="" src="http://www.balochwarna.com/modules/news/images/topics/6d9a3f2e-d789-ec10.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" /></span><br />
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According to local police officer Malik Arshad, the female teachers were sitting in a van outside their school in Killi Alam on Saryab Road when two men on motorbikes hurled acid and fled from the scene. Three teachers, in early 20s, received burn injuries on their face, hands and legs while <a href="http://www.surfcanyon.com/search?f=sl&q=clothes&partner=wtigca" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: initial; color: #2a75c5; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="scSearchLink">clothes</a> of another teacher were burnt. The victims were identified as Robina Mushwani, 21, Fazila Bangulzai, 23, Sajida Bibi, 24 and 21-year-old Surriya Langhov. Sajida Bibi was discharged after being provided first aid.<br />
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“We were sitting inside the van outside of our school when two persons on motorbike appeared and the hurled acid. The attackers were wearing masks and disappeared from the scene,” one of the injured Fazila told the doctors at Bolan Medical College Hospital.<br />
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The victims were admitted at Plastic Surgery and Burns Wounds Department at BMC that was crowded with their relatives. One of the eye witnesses claimed that the culprits had hurled a bottle containing deadly acid on the four female teachers. Dr Allah Bakhsh told the Express Tribune that the victim Rubina received 8 per cent burn injuries in her face and hands, Surriya 3.4 per cent while Fazila sustained 2 per cent wounds. “All the patients are stable and admitted to the ward. We have discharged Sajida Bibi whose merely clothes were burnt,” said Dr Allah Bakhsh.<br />
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Police have taken the driver into custody for interrogation. They have also mounted a manhunt in the area and detained several people for questioning.<br />
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According to relatives, they had not received any threat. “The van was parked outside the skillful Grammar School as usually and ready to drop the teachers to their respective areas,” said Saleem, relative of one of the victims.<br />
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It was the third incident in Balochistan during the past 15 months as earlier three women were attacked with acid in Kalat while two sisters sustained burn injuries in Dalbandin. Later, ISI / MI created new dummy organizations claimed the responsibility and warned the female not to move out in Bazaars, do not work outside and don’t participate in any protest rally or seminars.<br />
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It is generally presumed that religious fanatics supported by the state’s intelligence agencies are involved in the acid attacks because they want to spread panic among the Baloch female teachers and Baloch women who are playing a vital role in Balochistan’s independence movement.<br />
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Baloch resistance Organiations and leaders of Baloch Nationalist political parties and student Organisatons had strongly condemned the attack on Baloch sisters in Daalbandin and Kalat. They had termed such attacks a dirty game of the state agencies against the secular Baloch society. </div>Sarbaaz Balochhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17723635312832714118noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428795976536110640.post-78856043457575726952011-07-09T06:55:00.000-05:002011-07-09T06:55:31.502-05:00National Remembrance Day To Be Held In London On 17 July To Tribute The Baloch Martyrs<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><img align="left" alt="" src="http://www.balochwarna.com/modules/news/images/topics/561bfa76-19ea-1482.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" /></span><br />
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The Baloch nation, like many other nations, in their struggle for freedom has endured great sacrifices. In their endeavor to achieve these aims many have encountered and experienced the wrath of the occupying states. In consequence, many Baloch men, women and children in their struggle for National Liberation have been treated violently and inhumanly by the military and the intelligence services of these occupying states. The very harsh treatment of Baloch people is well recorded, particularly by states such as Pakistan and Iran. Since their illegal occupation of Balochistan these states have been involved in the systematic imprisonment, torture, abduction and extra-judicial killings of Baloch.<br />
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According to Voice for Baloch Missing Persons currently around 8000-13,000 Baloch political activists are in the illegal custody of Pakistani security agencies in occupied Balochistan. Tens of thousands have Baloch have been displaced and many hundreds have been either target killed by state’s security agencies or tortured to death under-custody. International Voice for Baloch Missing Persons collected the details of at least 175 Baloch political activists killed during captivity since July 2010.<br />
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Similarly hundreds of Baloch have been killed by the fundamentalist Regime of Iran in Iranian Occupied Balochistan and several are on death row waiting to be executed.<br />
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In tribute to sacrifices of the Baloch Martyrs the Baloch community in London holds a day of remembrance on the 15, July of every year. The day is nominated as “Baloch Martyrs Remembrance Day.” On this day we express our solidarity with families of Baloch Martyrs and those who are being illegally detained by occupying forces. Also, on this day there will be an exhibition of pictures, names, and a brief description on the background of each victim of occupying states’ violence.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">The actual day that this Remembrance Day will take place in London is on Sunday 17th July 2011. The Remembrance Day starts from 12 noon to 5pm at:<br />
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THE CENTRE FOR POLISH ART AND CULTURE<br />
238 – 246 KINGS STREET, HAMMERSMITH<br />
LONDON W6 0RF<br />
Closest Tube station: Hammersmith Station</strong></div><br />
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We wish to request from Baloch people in Balochistan and all over the world to hold 17 of July as “Baloch Martyrs Day or National Remembrance Day” to pay your deepest respects to those who paid the ultimate price of their lives for a free, democratic and united Balochistan.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong style="font-weight: bold;">Organised by:</strong></span><br />
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International Voice for Baloch Missing Persons<br />
Balochistan Democratic Movement<br />
Baloch Unity Conference (UK)<br />
Baloch Community London<br />
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<strong style="font-weight: bold;">For more Information contact:</strong><br />
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Dr Mostafa Baloch: 07934536430<br />
Nasser Baloch: 07504610412<br />
Shahid Baloch: 07869086966<br />
Or e-mail: <a href="mailto:info@bygwaah.com" style="background-color: transparent; color: #2a75c5; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" title="info@bygwaah.com">info@bygwaah.com</a></div><br />
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<a href="http://www.bygwaah.com/modules/xnews/article.php?storyid=114" rel="external" style="background-color: transparent; color: #2a75c5; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="http://www.bygwaah.com/modules/xnews/article.php?storyid=114">http://www.bygwaah.com/modules/xnews/article.php?storyid=114</a>Sarbaaz Balochhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17723635312832714118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428795976536110640.post-66508751866883459802011-07-05T07:35:00.002-05:002011-07-05T07:35:27.851-05:00Blast targets FC in Turbat; five killed several injured<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><img align="left" alt="" src="http://www.balochwarna.com/modules/news/images/topics/561bfa76-e2f4-1ad6.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" /></span><br />
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According to official sources “Unknown men had planted explosive material beside a road and detonated it with a remote control device when a convoy was passing through.” As a result of the explosion, five personnel were killed and six others sustained serious injuries, they maintained.<br />
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They said that the wounded personnel were given immediate medical aid in Turbat and later were referred to Quetta. According to doctors, condition of two of the six injured personnel was very critical.<br />
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Official sources confirmed that a search operation has been launched in the area lying along the Pak-Iran border in Turbat district and some suspected individuals had been taken into custody.<br />
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Further investigation was underway.<br />
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Balochistan is the scene of a war between Pakistani occupying forces and Baloch armed Organisations who are fighting for the Independence of Balochistan. It is worth mentioning that the attack on security forces was carried out less than 24 hours after the statement of Commander and Southern Command Lit. General Javed Zia where he said, “Insurgency in Balochistan is dying down”. However, today’s attack on Pakistan’s paramilitary forces and constant attacks on security forces check posts, gas pipelines, construction companies and other government places proves his claims wrong. </div>Sarbaaz Balochhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17723635312832714118noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3428795976536110640.post-41289492878666740142011-07-01T16:20:00.003-05:002011-07-02T07:01:07.240-05:00Balochistan continues to bleed: Body of Comrade Abdul Ghaffar Langove found<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><img align="left" alt="" src="http://www.balochwarna.com/modules/news/images/topics/561bfa76-55cc-542d.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" /></span><br />
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Comrade Ghaffar Langove Baloch was abducted by Pakistani security agencies from Karachi on 11 December 2009, from hospital where his wife was admitted. Till his extra judicial murder his whereabouts remained unknown. He had no access to legal representation neither was he family allowed to meet him.<br />
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The relatives of Ghaffar Langav have been protesting for his safe recovery from the Platform of Voice for Baloch Missing Persons, an Organisation formed by the families of enforced disappeared Baloch activists, which is striving for the safe and early release of illegally detained Baloch activists and for the arrested of uniformed culprits (the FC, ISI and Military Intelligence) to be brought to justice for their crimes against humanity in occupied Balochistan.<br />
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Comrade Ghaffar was first arrested in 2000 but was released around after one month of torture and interrogation by personnel of Military Intelligence. He was rearrested in 2006 from Mangochar area of Balochistan; both times he was subjected to brutal physical and psychological torture by Pakistani Military and Intelligence agencies. After years of illegal imprisonment comrade Mir Ghaffar Langov was released on Friday 8 May 2009. He was received by hundreds of Baloch students and taken to Balochistan University. At the University Mr. Langov reaffirmed his resolve to continue the struggle for the liberation of Balochistan.<br />
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In December 2009 Mir Abdul Ghaffar Langov took his wife to Karachi for treatment when the Pakistani intelligence agencies and Karachi Police <a href="http://www.balochwarna.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=2540&keywords=Ghaffar+Langove" rel="external" style="background-color: transparent; color: #2a75c5; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="">abducted him</a> for the third time from the gate of hospital on <a href="http://www.balochwarna.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=2294&keywords=Ghaffar+Baloch+released" rel="external" style="background-color: transparent; color: #2a75c5; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="">11, December, 2009</a>. He was kept under illegal custody by the Pakistani security forces despite several orders by <a href="http://tribune.com.pk/story/83793/missing-baloch-leader-shc-seeks-agencies-reply/" rel="external" style="background-color: transparent; color: #2a75c5; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="">Sindh High court</a> for his recovery. The security agencies of Pakistan ignored all the orders of the Courts and denied detaining Mr. Langov. In a free and democratic counrty the intelligence agencies and ISI would have been in contempt of court and would be detained for not obeying the Court orders but in Pakistan the Judiciary, the media, and even the parliament are subservient to the Army and ISI.<br />
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The <a href="http://www.balochwarna.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=2315&keywords=Ghaffar+Langove" rel="external" style="background-color: transparent; color: #2a75c5; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="">family members </a>of Comrade <a href="http://www.balochwarna.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=2300&keywords=Ghaffar+Langove+released" rel="external" style="background-color: transparent; color: #2a75c5; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="">Abdul Ghaffar Baloch</a> have constantly been protesting in Quetta, Karachi and Islamabad for his release but all in futile. They have time and again urged the Chief Justice of Pakistan to take notice of his illegal abduction and get the Military Intelligence to produce him to court of law. The family went to the extent to say that if he was involved in any unlawful activities, he should be produced before the court o law in accordance with the constitution of country [Pakistan] and given the opportunity to stand a fair trial to prove his innocence or if he was found guilty he should be punished according the country’s law but all to no avail because the ISI, military Intelligence and other security agencies are a law onto themselves and running a state of their own where they believe they not answerable to anyone. </span></div>Sarbaaz Balochhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17723635312832714118noreply@blogger.com0