WASHINGTON — “Everywhere you find turmoil [in the Middle East], you find Iran’s hand in it,” Defense Secretary James N. Mattis told reporters at the Pentagon yesterday. Defense Secretary James N. Mattis holds an impromptu news conference with Pentagon correspondents, Dec. 15, 2017. DoD photo by Jim Garamone During an impromptu news conference, Mattis addressed questions […]Read More
By F.M. SHAKIL Blame it on political chaos, corruption or a deteriorating law and order situation in Pakistan. Whatever the cause, Chinese enthusiasm for the multi-billion dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is waning and Beijing has taken several road, mass-transit and industrial zone projects off the table, either temporarily or permanently. Two road projects that have […]Read More
QUETTA: The Pakistan regular and other security forces have started fresh offensives in Dasht area of district Kech Balochistan on Saturday and abducted at least nine people including two children. According to the details, the Pakistani forces raided Jattani Bazar and Shay Seji areas of Dasht and looted houses, harassed and beaten up women and […]Read More
By Lawrence Sellin Retired Colonel, U.S. Army Reserve According to a December 12, 2017 Urdu-language news site report, during a high-level meeting presumably between Chinese and Pakistani officials held on the last day of the November Chinese Economic Summit in Hong Kong, China offered to train Pakistani security forces to protect both the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor […]Read More
“No protected person may be punished for an offence he or she has not personally committed. Collective penalties and likewise all measures of intimidation or of terrorism are prohibited. Pillage is prohibited. Reprisals against protected persons and their property are prohibited,” ARTICLE 33 of Geneva Convention 1949. The collective punishment of Baloch people by Pakistani […]Read More
By Shahdad Baloch After series of interferences in the Middle East, now Iran has opted the policy of diluting the Baloch struggle for an independent homeland through her notorious ‘proxy war’ doctrine. The most recent development was witnessed after the Kurdistan referendum, where Iranian revolutionary guards backed Iraqi forces in their attempt to sabotage the […]Read More
QUETTA: Pakistan Security forces have killed two Baloch men in Jhao area of Balochistan’s tense Awaran District on Thursday. The local Levies sources claimed that the men were killed during ‘an exchange of firing between Pakistani forces and armed men’. Independent sources, however, say that the men were executed after their arrest. “The victims were […]Read More
QUETTA: unknown persons hurled a hand grenade at the office of pro-parliamentarian political Party National Party (NP), headed by Federal Minister of Maritime Affairs Hasil Bezinjo and former Chief Minister of Balochistan Dr Malik Baloch, in Turbat on Thursday. The grenade exploded outside the main gate and partially damaged the out wall of the office. […]Read More
QUETTA: At least two men were wounded in a landmine explosion early Monday morning in the Kohlu district of Balochistan. According to the Balochistan Levies, the blast occurred in the Bareli area of Mawand Tehsil injuring Muhammad Naseem and Zakariya Mari. Meanwhile, Azad Baloch, the official spokesperson of the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) informed media […]Read More
By Riaz Naseer Baloch The Baloch nation is facing human rights violations and abuses since the forcible and illegal occupation of Balochistan by Pakistan on 27 March 1948. There has been variation in the Pakistani military and ‘democratic government’ atrocities in Balochistan but from past 15 years Pakistani forces barbaric acts have intensified and worsened. […]Read More
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