Tags : Pakistan

US re-designates LJ, LeT as foreign terrorist outfits

Faiz Baluch 16th January 2021

WAHINGTON: Ahead of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) meeting in February, the United States has re-designated Pakistani terrorist groups as Lashkar-i-Jhangvi (LJ) and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) as foreign terrorist organisations. The designation of the Pakistani terror groups as foreign terrorist organisations by Washington comes just weeks before the Financial Action Task Force’s meeting in February […]Read More

Pakistan’s Macabre policy of “kill and Dump” Abroad

Faiz Baluch 29th December 2020

By Dr Shahzavar Karimzadi Karima Baloch, a well-known Baloch human rights and political activist went missing on Sunday 20 December 2020 in Toronto, Canada. She was last seen at about 3 pm on that day. Her body was found the next day, Monday 21 December. Karima was a gifted and exceptionally committed individual. She was […]Read More

Balochistan: Human Rights violations by Iranian forces in the month

Faiz Baluch 10th July 2020

The Balochistan Human Rights Group has released its latest human rights report on the situation in Iranian Balochistan. As reported, the situation continues to deteriorate for ethnic Baloch people. The Iranian law and enforcement forces have killed Baloch citizens on a daily basis in extrajudicial killings and continue to disseminate insecurity by means of threat, […]Read More

RSF warns Pakistani authorities not to threaten journalists living abroad

Faiz Baluch 10th July 2020

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

COVID-19: Harbinger of cold warfare and significance of Free Balochistan

Faiz Baluch 13th May 2020

By Shahdad Baloch The world is changing around us. As we move into an era where the political, military and economic dominance of the West is coming under pressure, the sense of uncertainty is unsettling and the reason is West’s soft corner for China. Xi Jinping in 2013 strongly suggested that China is planning for […]Read More

Balochistan issue: Bajwa phones Baqeri and begs his help to

Faiz Baluch 12th May 2020

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

Faiz Baluch 11th May 2020

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

Faiz Baluch 3rd May 2020

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

Afghanistan Crisis: The US, Russian and Chinese Apprehension, The failed

Faiz Baluch 17th February 2020

By Hafeez Hasanabadi Translated by Archen Baloch Despite the death and destruction of millions of people, there seems to be no end to the war in the sight in Afghanistan, nor does it seem that the enemies of Afghans and war profiteers of terrorism would allow the possibility of a positive change for a conclusion. […]Read More

Op Ed: Pakistan’s Draconian National Security Doctrine

Faiz Baluch 6th November 2019

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