Balochistan Students Beaten for Demanding Internet Access

By Veengas  Students in Quetta, Balochistan, were beaten up by the police last week when they protested the lack of internet access across the province. With no internet connectivity in several districts of Balochistan, and very poor network in others, the students cannot attend the online classes announced by the Pakistan government as schools and […]Read More

Balochistan: Pakistan forces and electric pylon bombed in Kohlu and

QUETTA: Baloch pro-freedom armed fighters have attacked a convoy of Pakistani forces in Chuchudani area of Kahan in district Kohlu, Balochistan on Saturday. Azad Baloch, spokesman of Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), while talking to media from an undisclosed location, said that BLA fighters targeted a convoy of Pakistan army consisting of 8 vehicles in a […]Read More

The long wait

Sammi Baloch AT 1am on June 28, 2009, plain-clothed armed men abducted my father, Dr Deen Mohammad. He was on night duty at a hospital in Ornach, Khuzdar district. My sister and I have abandoned our childhood, our studies, our home — everything — to find him and secure his release. Nothing has worked. For […]Read More

International Day in Support of Victims of Torture: FBM protests

HANNOVER: The Free Balochistan Movement Germany Branch organised a protest rally in Germany’s Hannover city on the occasion of International Day in Support of Victims of Torture and to expose Pakistani and Iranian state atrocities against Baloch nation.   Pro-freedom Baloch activists, representatives of Pashtun Protection Movement and activists from liberal political parties in Germany […]Read More

‘Bleak’ Future Seen for Iran’s Sunnis as Baloch Cleric’s Detention

By Michael Lipin, Ramin Haghjoo, Behrooz Samadbeygi An exiled Iranian Sunni rights activist says Iran’s apparent arbitrary detention of an outspoken Sunni cleric is the latest sign of a bleak future for the nation’s minority Muslim sect.   Speaking to VOA Persian last Thursday from London, Abdol Sattar Doshoki said Iranian Sunni cleric Molavi Fazl al-Rahman Kouhi has been imprisoned for six months in the […]Read More

Kurdish politician survives assassination attempt in the Netherlands

ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Sadegh Zarza, the 64-year-old former leadership member of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI), survived an assassination attempt on Saturday in the Dutch city of Leeuwarden, an attack his family has blamed on the Iranian government. Taher Zarza, his brother, told the Leeuwarden Courant newspaper that Zarza was stabbed multiple times in his […]Read More

Balochistan: Peaceful students protesters arrested, tortured and released

QUETTA: Pakistani police on Wednesday baton-charged and misbehaved with the peaceful student protesters in Quetta – the capital of Balochistan – for demanding restoration of the internet for the continuation of their online classes. Since the Higher Education Commission’s decision to start online classes, students from Balochistan have been demanding that the government must first […]Read More