Tag: Balochistan

NSA Doval using insurgents to force Islamabad away from Kashmir issue, retd Pak Air Force officer
25Nov By Yusara AskariNo Comments
Asia, Politics

NSA Doval using insurgents to force Islamabad away from Kashmir issue, retd Pak Air Force officer

A Pakistani military veteran has alleged that India's National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval is using elements in the insurgent groups in Pashtun tribal areas and Balochistan to force the Pakistan Army away from the Kashmir issue.In an editorial titled 'Doval's dirty war', published on tribune.com.pk on November 22, senior Pakistani columnist and retired Pakistan Air Force officer Air Vice Marshal Shahzad Chaudhary said: "Reports of RAW teaming up splintered TTP elements under one control against Pakistan and synching them with Allah Nazar and the BLA in Balochistan, as indeed with some nationalists in the former tribal regions of Pakistan, is how Doval plans his next phase of war.""It is in play already and has gone on unremittingly, relentlessly and incessantly as Doval attempts at f...
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‘Silence means endorsement’: Baloch activist Bugti
26Sep By Grace TsoiNo Comments
World

‘Silence means endorsement’: Baloch activist Bugti

Baloch activist Brahumdagh Bugti, on the occasion of the international day against enforced disappearances said that the day is a reminder that international community will do nothing, no single country will act unless they have their own interest.“On the international day against enforced disappearances today is reminder that the international community will do nothing, no single country will act unless they have their own interest. Silence means endorsement and neutrality means I always supported and will support powerful,” Bugti said in a tweet.A large number of Baloch people, including political activists, journalists and other intellectuals have been victims of enforced disappearance in the Balochistan province.The Baloch activists claim that they have been abducted by secret agencies
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What made ‘Pakistan’s Independence Day’ the most controversial day for its people
31Aug By Stuart WhiteNo Comments
Business, Opinion

What made ‘Pakistan’s Independence Day’ the most controversial day for its people

Certain nationalist groups in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Gilgit Baltistan have announced that they will not celebrate Pakistan’s Independence Day on August 14. Instead, they will be observing a Black Day.Since righteous voices are usually met with brutal repression and it is too risky to have such observance in Pakistan, it has been decided that the discontent be demonstrated through a series of car rallies across Europe, America and Canada highlighting forced disappearance, extrajudicial killings and ongoing persecution and manhunt of nationalists and political as well as human right activists in Pakistan.The decision to mark August 14 as a Black Day comes as a shock to many as it is in stark contrast to the perceived mindset of people who had previously claimed to be bound toget
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Pakistan’s ‘Durand Line’ is perhaps bloodier than LoC
24Aug By Stuart WhiteNo Comments
Opinion

Pakistan’s ‘Durand Line’ is perhaps bloodier than LoC

The clashes between Afghan Taliban and Pakistani troops along the Durand line - the international land border between Afghanistan and Pakistan – is now every day news.Between July and August, the Afghan Taliban have claimed that they have killed many Islamabad soldiers. The citizens of Khyber Pakhtoonqkhwa are, once again, sounding the alarm and the good old strategy of chaos so dear to Pakistan army and intelligence is becoming more and more complex and elaborate.According to locals, Islamabad is playing on the usual different tables, sponsoring both Taliban and ISIS -Khorasan. According to US special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad these two organizations are each other’s’ “mortal enemies, and in the war against ISIS, Taliban have played an important role”. For more than a year the Taliban are re
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European governments mustn’t stay mum over Baloch Journalist’s death
19Aug By Stuart WhiteNo Comments
Opinion

European governments mustn’t stay mum over Baloch Journalist’s death

It’s the same every time, the story breaks out, gets written and advertised for at least a month before it disappears from the radars of the press. The story starts with a body dumped into a river. The body of a Baloch journalist, Sajid Hussain.Unfortunately, it is not uncommon to find mutilated dead bodies, in various stage of decomposition and beyond recognition dotting the roads of Balochistan; it is part of the nefarious ‘kill and dump’ policy of Pakistani intelligence agencies highlighted many times by human rights organizations, both national and international. But this time, there was a twist in the usual plot.Sajid was dumped into a river, but the river was in Uppsala, Sweden - the place where he had fled to and asked for political asylum. “His body was found on 23 April in the Fyr
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‘UN should intervene to stop the ethnic cleansing of the indigenous people of Balochistan’
17Jul By Yusara AskariNo Comments
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
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China pillages Balochistan
17Jul By Stuart WhiteNo Comments
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
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Karachi attack warning to Pakistan, China to quit Balochistan: Baloch leader
13Jul By Yusara AskariNo Comments
Asia

Karachi attack warning to Pakistan, China to quit Balochistan: Baloch leader

Paying tribute to the fighters of Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF) who were killed in the Pakistan Stock Exchange building in Karachi on June 29, prominent pro-independence Baloch leader Allah Nazar Baloch has said that the incident was a warning to Pakistan and China to quit Balochistan.Nazar said that Pakistan has cheaply mortgaged Baloch lands to China and that China has made a long-term plan to use Gwadar as a launching pad by making Balochistan an undeclared colony to dominate the world.“China's presence here has become a threat not only to the Baloch national survival but poses a danger to the entire world,” he said.“We believe that the world is still unaware of China's intentions and that the Baloch are the only ones fighting the modern imperialist monster. The attack on the base
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Protests held against illegal detention of Baloch political leaders by Pak security agencies
9Jul By Yusara AskariNo Comments
Asia

Protests held against illegal detention of Baloch political leaders by Pak security agencies

Illegal and forced abduction of Baloch political leaders and intellectuals by Pakistan intelligence agencies saw widespread demonstrations being held in Pakistan’s Balochistan province as well Germany on June 28.Voice for Baloch Missing Persons, a non-governmental organization in Balochistan’s Quetta city demanded the release of abducted Dr Deen Mohammad Baloch and Dr Akbar Marri.According to sources, hundreds of people gathered on the streets of Quetta for protest marking Dr Deen Mohammad Baloch's abduction 11 years ago.A huge number of Baloch women including Dr Deen Mohammad's Daughter Sammi and Mehlab Deen, men and students participated in the protest. The protesters demanded immediate release of Dr Deen Jan and Dr Akbari Marri and all other missing persons.Similarly, the Baloch Nationa
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Pakistani forces continue military operation, abductions in Balochistan
2Jul By Yusara AskariNo Comments
Asia

Pakistani forces continue military operation, abductions in Balochistan

Balochistan is fighting two wars right now, incessant search operations and raids by Pakistani forces, and the rampant spread of the coronavirus with over 10,000 confirmed cases until now.According to local reports, Pakistani forces have cordoned off various towns of Awaran district and banned the transport. Inhabitants of these areas are besieged at their homes.As per the reports, in the areas between Ketch and Awaran; Peerandar, Geshkor, Jahoo and other places, Pakistani forces have gathered and are conducting search operations. The forces have also shut all sorts of transportation, due which people have been trapped in their homes.According to area residents, Pakistani forces have abducted a boy named Sattar, son of Ilahi Baksh, from Kosnhkalat area of Tump. While forces raided many hou...
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