Shutter-down and wheel jam protest in Balochistan on Pakistani prime minister’s visit to Gwader

Quetta: Baloch people have protested against the Pakistani government and once against rejected the announcements of packages and jobs being offering to them as charity. BNF had given the call to protest on the day of PM’s arrival to Gwader. Radio Gwank reported that today (29/12/2009) people have observed wheel jam and shutter-down protest to show their anger against Pakistan government.

Speaking to Radio Gwank Mr Ismael Baloch said that around 20,000 Pakistani troops have been deployed in Gwader for the PM’s security, the road form where the PM has passed has been completely blocked for public movements. Mr Ismael Baloch claimed that no one has participated in the gathering of PM apart from some of the government servants and PPP members.

He said that PM did not announce anything new but repeated the past rhetoric of the Pakistani governments that they would develop Balochistan, give jobs etc. The Pakistani PM like the previous heads of Pakistan has regretted that Balochistan has been ignored from last 62 years. PM however said that people should not doubt the intentions of PPP government.

Mr Khalil Baloch a member of BNM has said that they have protested to remind the Pakistani PM that Balochistan is an occupied land and that the people of Balochistan are not interested in Pakistan’s packages and jobs. He said that today’s shutter down and wheel jam was the reaction of Baloch Nation and people of Makuran and they wanted remind the PM that Baloch have nothing to do with Pakistan and Punjab. No common Baloch has welcomed the PM to Gwader, in fact the Baloch have observed a black day.

He said “The martyrs of the Nation have not sacrificed their precious lives for some jobs and packages, neither the sarmachaars (freedom fighters) are fighting for anything like this. Baloch struggle is against the occupation of Baloch land and Baloch are giving sacrifices to regain their Independent status”.

Courtesy: Radio Gwank

BNF announces wheel jam and shutter-down protests on arrival of Pakistani Prime Minister to Balochistan

Quetta: Baloch National Front (a combination of pro-Independent Baloch parties) has announced shutter-down and wheel jam protests in Balochistan on 29 December 2009, on Pakistani Prime Minister’s visit to Gwader Balochistan. The BNF said it was protesting against the ongoing military operations and the 62 years of deception of Baloch people by Pakistani rulers.

There will be a shutter-down in Makuran region and wheel jam and shutter down protest will be observed in Gwader district on the day of Pakistani Prime Minister’s arrival to Gwader on 29 December 2009. Coalition parties of BNF will also take out protest rallies and observe protest demonstrations in Karachi and elsewhere in Balochistan on the same day (Tuesday).

According to BNF statement Pakistani rulers have been deceiving the Baloch people from last 62 years in the name of negotiations, announcement of so called development projects and packages. While rejecting the current Balochistan package the BNF said it is nothing but a joke with the people of Balochistan. BNF appealed to the Baloch Nation and coalition parties to take part in the wheel jam and shutter-down protest in order to prove that Baloch are not interested in Pakistan’s so called package but Baloch are struggling for a greater cause and that is to regain their independent status.

Courtesy: DailyTawar

Iranian forces start rehearsals on Western and Eastern borders of Balochistan

Chagi Balochistan (NNI): Iran has started unusual activities on the borders of Eastern province Sistan Balochistan to beef up the security for the mourners of Muharram.

However, Important sources told NNI that Iranian forces have started war rehearsals in Jalk, Sarawan and other surrounding areas in the bordering regions of Iranian occupied Balochistan. These forces are reportedly equipped with latest weapons and other ammunition.

It is worth mentioning that due to security situations Iran has sealed the border ‘Rahdari Gate’ between pak Iran. The Trad Gate was sealed after a deadly suicide attack on Iranian security forces on 18 October 2009 (in Pishin Balochistan). The Pak-Iran trade gate remains closed even after high delegation headed by the chief secretary Balochistan visited Iran to convince the Iranian authorities to reopen the Pak Iran trade gate.

Pakistani forces killed the Baloch woman

Security forces attacked the house of Abdul Khalique in the Qadirabad area of Noshki.Pakistani forces harrased and brutaly tortured the family members;in this incident one woman named Bakht Bibi martyred due to the torture of the forces;forces badly beaten the son of Abdul Khalique and picked him up with them;despite of all the government claims the cruelity & brutality is continous.Forces are continuing the old policies of genociding the Baloch nation.Faisal Bugti of Baloch Republican Party has appealed the International Human Right Organisations to take the notice of brutality in Balochistan;International organisation's should play their vital role to stop the genocide of Baloch and justice for Baloch nation.

Source:Daily Tawar

Raisani should apologize to the aging mothers of the missing persons for deeply hurting their sentiments

The Balochhal: If historians and journalists were waiting for a haunting quote from Balochistan’s chief minister, here it comes. Nawab Mohammad Aslam Raisani, the chief minister, astounded everyone in Khuzdar during a press-talk by saying that that most of the missing persons had “deliberately gone underground to malign the country’s intelligence agencies”. If former military dictator General Pervez Musharraf’s infamous quote, ” it is not the 70s that you will hit and run…We will hit you in a way that you don’t know what hit you”, has become one of the most widely quoted statements of a man who devastated Balochistan, one can assertively predict that this statement of Chief Minister Raisani will go down in the history as the most disgraceful proclamation ever made by a Baloch chief minister.

The chief minister repeated what was once said by former dictator General Pervez Musharraf and subsequently by Rehman Malik, the current interior minister, that the missing persons had willingly gone abroad. Gone abroad? For what? He said the elements responsible for target killings were also responsible for hiding their associates and then show them as disappeared people. In his words, the missing persons have deliberately gone underground and now the issue is being raised to embarrass the country’s intelligence agencies. Raisani, the fist chief minister in the history of Balochistan to be elected unopposed, is of the view that it is unreasonable on the part of the missing persons’ families to hold agencies responsible for the whole mess.

Expectedly, a very emotional reaction has come from the families of the missing persons in response to the chief ministers’ statement. If the government cannot deliver justice to the families of the missing persons due to its inefficiency and powerlessness to check the influence of the secrete services then it should at least hurt the sentiments of the mothers, sisters, wives, daughters and sons of the missing persons. Once living a dignified and peaceful life inside their homes, these Baloch mothers are seen languishing from one press club to the other while holding the photographs of their beloved ones. Politics is one thing but no one, including the chief minister, has the right to insult human feelings to give a cover up to his government’s inefficiencies.

Raisani’s current statement –about missing persons having gone underground –sounds ridiculous given the fact that Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani, who belongs to the same party of the Balochistan Chief Minister, issued a verified list of 992 missing Baloch persons this month. Does Raisani have an answer to the families of at least these 992 missing persons? Why would these people go underground as most of them belong to the families that live below poverty line? The missing persons’ list includes people from lower professions such as students, shopkeepers, tailor masters, clersk, paramedics etc.

Besides being the chief minister of Balochistan, Raisani is a reputed tribal chief in Balochistan. Thus, people want to share their sorrows with them with the hope that the latter plays a role to resolve their problems. He should apologize to the aging mothers of the missing persons for deeply hurting their sentiments as these aggrieved mothers now prepare to sit on a hunger strike in front of Quetta Press Club from December 30th amid freezing temperature of Quetta.

Ghaffar Langav relatives demand Supreme Court intervention

QUETTA: The relatives of Baloch nationalist leader Ghaffar Langav, who has been allegedly whisked away by government agencies, have appealed to the Chief Justice of Pakistan for taking immediate action against government agencies for illegal detention of Ghaffar Langav.

Relatives and family members of Ghaffar Langav made this appeal while addressing a press conference at Quetta press club on Sunday.

They alleged that Mr. Langav was picked up by government agencies from Karachi on December 11 from a hospital where his wife was admitted.
“We are completely unaware about whereabouts of Ghaffar Langove”, they said, adding if he was not recovered soon his life might be in danger because according to them Mr. Langav has been put in a torture cell, where he’s believed to be suffering extreme torture like thousands of other Baloch forced-disappeared persons.

They said that previously he was arrested by government agencies but he was acquitted from all charges by the court.

They said that if Ghaffar Langav was involved in any unlawful activity then he should be produced before court of law in accordance with the constitution of country so that he could prove his innocence.

“We appeal Chief Justice of Pakistan to take notice of his abduction and get him recovered”, they added.
They warned that if Ghaffar Langav was not recovered within a week they would resort to massive protests and would lay a siege of Governor Secretariat and Chief Minister Balochistan house.

To a query, they vehemently rejected news items published in some section of press about release of Ghaffar Langav and asked media persons to avoid publishing such baseless news.

Courtesy: www.thebalochhal.com

BSO (azaad) Protest against indiscriminate firing on Baloch villages in Karachi

Karachi: BSO (azaad) and the Baloch residents of different villages including Malir, Hasan Lashkari, Purana Glimar, Peer Coloni and Siddique village in Karachi have protested in front of Karachi press club against the arrest and indiscriminate torture of four Baloch students by a ‘Karachi based ethnic group MQM). The protesters were holding placard and chanting slogans against the ethnic group.

Addressing the crowd and media men the BSO (A) leaders alleged that Karachi police was also siding with the MQM. They said recently the police have shot dead a young Baloch man 'Arif Baloch' in Karachi. Before the murder of Arif Baloch, Saood Baloch and Aziz Baloch were also murdered by the Rangers (local police) in Karach. Aziz Baloch whose mental condition was not stable has been picked by the police and few days later his tortured dead body was handed to his relatives. Baloch people strongly protested against his cold-blooded murder but no action was taken. Despite all these protests from Baloch people the MQM is still continuing its indiscriminate firings on Baloch villages and it is suspected that they have the full support of the local police.

Nisar Baloch an anti encroachment social worker who had challenged the illegal occupation of Gutter Baghicha (in Old Golimar area) by the MQM land mafia group has finally paid the ultimate price for opposing these crooks and criminals. The same ethnic fascist group have targeted Hussein Baloch a resident of Hassan Lashkari village in Karachi. Hussein Baloch though survived but sustained serious injuries.

Photo of injured Junaid Baloch On 19/12/2009 five Baloch youth namely Junaid Baloch, Shahnawaz Baloch, Riyaz Baloch, Najeeb Baloch and Rafeeq Baloch have been stopped by armed members of MQM, severely beaten on the spot and later taken away to an undisclosed location where Junaid Baloch has been. Mr Junaid Baloch is now admitted in a hospital in Karachi where he is fighting for his life.

The protesters urged the leadership of MQM to stop targeting Baloch youth and firing on Baloch villages. “If the target killing of Baloch youth and firing on Baloch villages continues by the armed groups of MQM then the safety of Urdu speaking people all over Balochistan cannot be guaranteed. That is why would be a wise decision by this ethnic group and their leadership to immediately stop the bloodshed of Baloch people in Karachi. ” the protesters warned.

Ghaffar Baloch of BSO (M) and his friend abducted from Khuzdar

Khuzdar: an ex-member of BSO (Mohiudeen) has been abducted by unknown armed men. According to details Mr Ghaffar Baloch was driving to home when his vehicle came under indiscriminate fire. According to eye-witnesses around a dozen people already waiting in two white cars at Chamrok have first open fire on Mr Ghaffar Baloch’s car and when he tried to escape and accelerate, the armed men chased him. Finally at some point Mr Ghaffar lost control of his car, the vehicle slipped off the road and went into the Khand Graveyard. The armed men in the two white cars continued firing at them for a while and then came out of their cars. They arrested Mr Ghaffar Baloch and his friends and put them into their cars and drove off to an undisclosed location.

Soon after the firing incident local people gathered and strongly protested against the abduction of ex-member of BSO (M), they demand the immediate release of Ghaffar Baloch and his friends.

On the other hand the chairman of BSO (M) has strongly condemned the injuring and abduction of Ghaffar Baloch. He alleged that Ghaffar Baloch and his friend have been fired upon and abducted by the FC (Frontier Corps). The chairman termed their arrest as state sponsored terrorism saying “Pakistani FC wants to continue the subjugation of Baloch people by target killing and abducting Baloch student and political activists”. He further said there was no difference between the period of dictator Musharraf and the current PPP government. “In fact PPP’s government is more cruel then the Musharraf govt as during Musharraf’s period Baloch were being disappeared only but during PPP govt the Baloch are not only being abducted but they are being killed in cold-blood after their abduction”. He also appealed the BSO members to observe a shutter down protest in Khuzdar today.

Meanwhile NP (National Party) BSO Pajjar and BNP (M) (Balochistan National Party Mengal) has also strongly condemned the injuring and abduction of Ghaffar Baloch and demanded his immediate and unconditional release. The NP & BNP also appealed the trade unions and other business owners to observe a shutter down protest today (21/12/2009) in Khuzdar.

Courtesy: DailyTawar