Tags : Balochistan

Balochistan: Four ‘unattended’ dead bodies buried in Quetta

QUETTA: The volunteers of Edhi have buried four dead bodies on Monday that were brought from different areas of the city. The unidentified dead bodies were declared as ‘unattended’ and laid to rest in Dasht graveyard. In the beginning of this year (January) ten dead bodies were buried in the same graveyard by Ehdi foundation […]Read More

Balochistan: Pakistan army sexually assaulted two Baloch girls

QUETTA: Baloch social media activists and news portals reporting on Balochistan issue have reported two cases of sexual assault on Baloch girls by the Pakistani army. One of the victims has, for the first time, spoken publically. According to details, Pakistan army personnel abducted a teenage Baloch girl from her school in Maashi area of […]Read More

Indian actress urges her govt to take up Balochistan issue

BW News Web Desk: The Indian actress Payal Rohatgi has urged India to speak about ‘continued Pakistani atrocities in Balochistan’ at UNHCR session in Geneva. She expressed her view on social media while replying to a tweet to Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi where he said that ‘Pakistan will speak definitively at the UNHCR […]Read More

Balochistan: Dead body of previously abducted man found while another

QUETTA: The bullet-ridden dead body of a previously disappeared Baloch man was found Sunday night in district Awaran’s Mashkay region in Balochistan. According to details, the tortured and bullet-ridden dead body of Hammal son of Murad Baloch was found dumped in Mashkay. Sources reported that the victims was abducted 20 days ago Gazzi area of […]Read More

‘Unsilencing Balochistan’

By Desmond Fernandes Just over 4 years ago, “on the evening of April 24, one of Karachi’s most prominent social activists, Sabeen Mahmud, was shot dead after leaving an event called ‘Unsilencing Balochistan’ [Take 2], that her organization, The Second Floor, had arranged”. This event had been organised “after a previous roundtable on the same […]Read More

Balochistan: Pakistan army abducts a woman and her four children

QUETTA: Pakistani forces have abducted five people including a woman along with her three children from Kalat district Balochistan on Friday evening. According to details, a Baloch family was on their way to visit a shrine ‘Shah Darbar’ in suburbs of district Kalat when Pakistani forces offloaded them from a passenger bus. The victims have […]Read More

Balochistan: Pakistani forces disappeared six Baloch youth from Kharan

QUETTA: At least six persons have been arrested and taken away during the ongoing offensives of Pakistani forces in district Kharan Balochistan in the earlier hours of Monday. According to details, Pakistani forces have been conducting offensives in Kharan from past few days. As a continuation of their aggression Pakistan military and intelligence agencies carried […]Read More

Balochistan: Pakistani forces abduct three Baloch youth

QUETTA: Pakistan intelligence agencies have forcibly disappeared at least three Baloch youth from district Panjgur and Kech Balochistan. According to details, Pakistan forces carried out offensives in Gomazi area of Tump in Turbat Balochistan and abducted two Baloch youth. The abducted men have been named as Tariq son of Mohammad and Abdul Qadeer son of […]Read More