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Balochistan: Ten Baloch civilians killed in military operations in different

Faiz Baluch 15th May 2015

Pakistan Frontier Corps (FC) and military carried out simultaneous joints operations in different areas of Balochistan on Thursday. At least 10 civilian have reportedly been killed due indiscriminate firing by gunship helicopters whereas several others have been arrested and taken to undisclosed locations. According to details Pakistani forces conducted unprovoked military offensives in Kalat, Mastung, […]Read More

Baloch activists in Canada held an anti-nuclear weapons awareness campaign

Faiz Baluch 13th May 2015

May 12, 2015 (Vancouver) Canadian Baloch activists organised an awareness campaign at the Simon Fraser University in Barnaby, British Columbia, against increasing human right violations and the effects of Pakistan’s series of nuclear tests on the soil of Balochistan on 28 May, 1998. International voice for Baloch Missing Persons (IVBMP) coordinators of Canada, Aziz Baloch […]Read More

International campaign against Pakistan’s nuclear weapons

Faiz Baluch 12th May 2015

In 1946 United Nations passed its first major resolutions against these weapons. It called for complete elimination of these weapons. Weapons of mass destructions has left their mark forever. The world has never been the same ever since these explosions. With utter disregard to catastrophic impacts of such weapon on humans, environment and other species, […]Read More

Balochistan: Ten Baloch abducted in less than 24 hours, two

Faiz Baluch 11th May 2015

Pakistani security forces abducted at least ten Baloch men from Awaraan and Dera Bugti regions of Balochistan. Two previously abducted Baloch’s tortured bodies were dumped during the Dera Bugti military operation. According to details Pakistan forces stopped a passenger bus at Pirandar FC check post in Awaraan and offloaded at least five people from the […]Read More

Balochistan: Enforced disappearances and kill and dump are direct response

Faiz Baluch 7th May 2015

Speech of Farzana Majeed Baloch at seminar in Karachi titled “‘Baloch Missing persons and the Role of State and Society” Respected Panel and the Audience, Problems of Balochistan, sadly, are too many to be covered just in a few minutes talk. That is why I will focus on the issue of enforced-disappearances in Balochistan. History […]Read More

Seminar on Baloch missing persons turn into protest demonstration as

Faiz Baluch 7th May 2015

Despite several security check points at Karachi’s largest educational institution and locking the doors Arts Auditorium, the Voice for Baloch Missing Persons vice chairman Mama Qadeer Baloch, General Secretary Farzana Majeed Baloch and others have succeeded in addressing getting their message about Balochistan situation and enforced disappearances to the students and other human rights activists […]Read More

Balochistan: Tortured bodies of three previously missing Baloch found, several

Faiz Baluch 3rd May 2015

Despite the ruling NP party’s claims of a decrease in number of enforced-disappearances, the abduction and kill and dump policy of Pakistani security forces continues to rise with deployment of more troops and military operations across Balochistan. According to Balochistan local media reports two bullet-riddled mutilated bodies were handed over to the local administration on […]Read More

Pro-freedom Baloch activists hold protest rally against Pakistan’s nuclear blasts

Faiz Baluch 2nd May 2015

Baloch demanding independence of their France-sized homeland from Pakistan Friday held an anti-nuclear rally in Sweden as part of an international campaign to raise awareness about dangers of Pakistan’s nuclear arms. Baloch demonstrators, who gathered in the Swedish town of Gothenburg, were holding posters of Sabeen Mahmud, Karachi activist and human rights defender. Mahmud was […]Read More

Balochistan the untold story

Faiz Baluch 27th April 2015

I.A. Rehman A Baloch student recently summed up Balochistan’s grievances before a civil society fact-finding mission by declaring: “We (the people of Balochistan) have not been neglected by the state alone; our compatriots in other provinces too have all along been indifferent to our plight. They do not care for us. They don’t even wish […]Read More

Prominent rights activist killed shortly after hosting a talk on

Faiz Baluch 25th April 2015

Karachi, PAKISTAN – Sabeen Mahmud, a prominent Pakistani social and human rights activist, has been shot dead, shortly after hosting an event on Balochistan’s “disappeared people”, in the southern city of Karachi, officials have told Al Jazeera. Mahmud, 40, was the director of T2F [The Second Floor], a café and arts space that has been […]Read More