Tags : Balochistan

Balochistan: Abduction of Baloch activist on rise as seven more

QUETTA: Pakistani forces have abducted seven people from different areas of Balochistan in past forty-eight hours including a software engineer from Pasni on Wednesday evening. According to details, Pakistani forces attacked a wedding party in the coastal town of Pasni Balochistan and arrested at least five people including a software engineer. The other four people […]Read More

British MP raises Balochistan issue at foreign office questions in

LONDON: A Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom and Member of Parliament for Harrow East has raised the issue of human rights abuses against people of Balochistan in the UK’s parliament during at foreign office questions. MP Bob Blackman later tweeted, “At foreign office Qs raised the human rights abuses against people of #Balochistan […]Read More

Sindh Rangers and intelligence agencies abduct two Baloch IDPs and

QUETTA: The Sindh Rangers and Pakistani intelligence agencies have abducted at least three Baloch on Monday (20/07/17). According to details, plain-clothed official raided the Visual Studies Canteen at Karachi University and abducted Baloch student Sagheer Ahmed on Monday evening. Mr Baloch is a student of Political Science at the university and originally hails from Teertaj, […]Read More

U.S. Afghan strategy will be governed by events in Balochistan

By LAWRENCE SELLIN, PHD The Pentagon is spinning its wheels in Afghanistan, continuing a questionable counterinsurgency and nation-building strategy because, quite literally, it knows that it won’t work, but cannot think of anything else to do. It will not succeed because the U.S. and NATO will never regain the military dominance the alliance had in the […]Read More

Abduction of Baloch women and children continuation of Pakistan’s policy

LONDON: Pro-freedom Baloch leader and head of Free Balochistan Movement, Hyrbyair Marri, said in a statement on Wednesday, that Pakistani intelligence agencies were violating Islamic principles, for their own evil interests and for expansion of their religious extremist ideology in the world. “Similarly, China who claims to value socialist principles is deviating from the basic […]Read More

The US condemns Balochistan shrine attack

Washington: The US  condemned the terror attack on a Shia shrine in  Balochistan that killed 20 people while on Thursday evening. “We offer our deepest condolences to the victims and their families, and wish a speedy recovery to those injured,” State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert said. She said the US continues to work with Pakistan and […]Read More

Balochistan: 20 people killed during shrine attack in Jhal Magsi

QUETTA: At least 20 people were killed, including two policemen, and 32 others were injured in a suicide blast at Dargah Fatehpur Sharif near Gandawa area of Jhal Magsi district of Balochistan on Thursday. According to details, a suicide bomber blew himself when a police personnel stopped him from entering the Shrine. “The suicide bomber struck […]Read More

Balochistan:  five members of a family killed by Pakistani forces

QUETTA: Pakistani forces have intensified that ongoing military attacks in Dera Bugti since last week killing several people including an entire family of five members. Sources reported that during the attacks on Baloch villages the Pakistani forces have used excessive force and indiscriminate shelling by gunship helicopters. The entire family of Mr Shambo Bugti was […]Read More