Tags : Pakistan

RSF warns Pakistani authorities not to threaten journalists living abroad

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is shocked by a leaked Pakistani government internal memo about stopping the “rhetoric against Pakistan” of six journalists based abroad. Regardless of the exact nature of the leak, the Pakistani authorities will be held responsible for anything that happens to these journalists or their families, RSF warned. Dated 18 June, the […]Read More

Balochistan issue: Bajwa phones Baqeri and begs his help to

QUETTA: The Pakistan Army spokesman Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) confirmed that Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa has telephoned Maj Gen Mohammad Baqeri, Chief of the Iranian Armed Forces, to discuss various issues. According to ISPR, General Qamar Javed Bajwa has expressed concern over an attack on Pakistani security forces along the […]Read More

Balochistan: Pakistani border forces whisked away two Baloch activists

QUETTA: Two Baloch labourers belonging to Iranian Occupied Balochistan (IOB) were abducted by the Pakistani forces on the Goldsmith Line on Sunday. According to details, two Baloch youths involved in Iranian Petrol, Diesel and other food items trade on the Goldsmith Line were returning to their hometowns after buying and selling goods from the border […]Read More

Pashtun Rights Activist Dies After Shooting Attack in Waziristan

Pashtun rights activist and political leader Sardar Arif Wazir has died of injuries sustained in a shooting attack in Pakistan’s South Waziristan tribal district. The Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM), a rights group that Wazir helped lead, confirmed to RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal that Wazir died in Islamabad on May 2. Wazir was injured when the vehicle […]Read More

Op Ed: Pakistan’s Draconian National Security Doctrine

By Advocate Ali Kachkol If Pakistan is seriously working on National Action Plan, then why it didn’t appreciate the Justice Faez Isa’s Commission of Inquiry Report on the deadly terrorist attack on lawyers in Quetta, Balochistan on 8th of August 2016 in which 70 lawyers lost their lives and more than 130 people received fatal […]Read More

The Attack on Masud Azhar in Rawalpindi and The Media

By Hafeez Hasanabadi Translate By Archen Baloch Pakistani media has always remained under the control of Pakistan army and civil establishment. Every bit of news passes through the bottleneck of censorship in Islamabad and only the luckiest news bits of trivialities are the ones which can get quick coverage. But when it comes to important […]Read More

US-Iran Tensions and Future of Baloch

By: Qaazi Baloch The Middle East has been a place of conflicts between various regional and international nations since a few decades. The most powerful nations in the region are known as Saudi Arabia, Israel and Iran (but after the US sanction Iran is no more power). Even though Israel and Arab states have fought […]Read More

Baloch living on both sides of artificial border are inseparable:

LONDON: The pro-freedom Baloch leader and head of Free Balochistan Movement, Hyrbyair Marri, in a statement said that the recent announcement of Iran and Pakistan to form a ‘Rapid Action Force’ in Balochistan shows that despite difference and accusation against each other, both religious fanatic states consider Balochistan and Baloch people their enemy. He said, […]Read More