Tag: Baloch Liberation Army

‘UN should intervene to stop the ethnic cleansing of the indigenous people of Balochistan’
Asia

‘UN should intervene to stop the ethnic cleansing of the indigenous people of Balochistan’

Pakistan-born Canadian author Tarek Fatah has called on the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and said that indigenous communities in Balochistan will lose their identities if their slaughter and ethnic cleansing is not stopped.“The indigenous communities will lose their identities if these inhuman acts are not stopped immediately. All these acts are carried out by the Pakistani military, which is an industrial mafia that controls everything,” Fatah said.However, he said, this would require the over a dozen Baloch political parties and guerilla groups to join hands to issue a “Balochistan Declaration about their future where the enemy is no longer the Pakistan Army, but China.”Describing the condition in Balochistan and the Chinese influence on the region, Fatah said: "Almost a decade
China pillages Balochistan
Opinion

China pillages Balochistan

In 2011, the celebrated Irish journalist Declan Walsh wrote about a 70-year-old conflict about Balochistan, which has been under Pakistani occupation since March 1948. It was a topic that only a few in the West had heard off.Headlined as ‘Pakistan’s Secret Dirty War,’ Walsh, in his piece, lifted the lid on atrocities being committed by the Pakistan Army and its jihadi death squads inside Balochistan.He wrote: “In Balochistan, mutilated corpses bearing the signs of torture keep turning up, among them lawyers, students and farm workers … The bodies surface quietly, like corks bobbing up in the dark. They come in twos and threes, a few times a week, dumped on desolate mountains or empty city roads, bearing the scars of great cruelty. Arms and legs are snapped; faces are bruised and swollen. F