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Balochistan Peoples Parties Appeal To Stop Arrest, Killing And Execution Of Baloch In Iran
After the security forces used live ammunitions against peaceful protester the demonstration grow in the strength and were joined by people from the neighboring towns and villages, there were similar demonstrations in other regions like Jakigwar...
Unrest in Rask after arrest of prominant Baloch scholars by Iranian security forces
Following the arrest of Maulvi Abdul Ghaffar Naqshbandi son of a prominent Scholar and the emaam of central Masque of Rask, people took to streets in the Rask, the main town of Sarbaaz, Balochistan. Security forces’ direct firing killed one...
UNPO Speaks Out Against New Arrests of Baloch People
Below is a copy of UNPO’s official Statement:
In the past week reports indicate that the Iranian regime has arrested up to sixty Baloch people in the latest restrictions to be placed on the rights of the Baloch people to expression, free...
Rohrabacher’s illogical ligic
Alya Alvi
That the US Congressman, Dana Rohrabacher, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation, has written a letter to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, condemning the recent violence in Balochistan...
Balochistan’s appetite for uplift funds
DEVELOPMENT spending in Balochistan is likely to exceed the budgeted allocation of Rs29 billion for the provincial annual development programme for the current financial year.
My Name is Khan And I am the brother of Baloch
Pakistan since its inception has faced many separatist movements with demands of Pakhtunistan, Bangladesh, Greater Baluchistan and Sindhudesh.
Balochistan: Islamabad Must Finally Deal With Situation
In the wake of turbulence in the region, a fact-finding mission recommended the Pakistani government to address the situation in Balochistan by reconciling all members involved.
One policeman killed, five injured in Lyari gun battle
Karachi: At least one policeman was killed and five others injured in a gun fight between police and miscreants in Lyari, an old society of Karachi, sources said on Thursday. The sources said that the gun battle started when Crime Investigation...
Lashkar-e-Balochistan claim responsibility for Lahore blast
Quetta: An unknown organization named Lashkar-e-Balochistan on Tuesday claimed responsibility for the terror attack at Lahore Railway Station, which killed at least two people and injured 40 others, sources said on Tuesday.
Gas line, power pylon blown up in Balochistan
QUETTA: Unidentified militants blew up a gas pipeline near Pikoh area in the Bugti Tribal Territory on Tuesday. According to sources, an explosive device was planted along an eight-inch-diameter gas pipeline, which went off disrupting gas supply...
Zardari for use of carrot and stick in Lyari
KARACHI: President Asif Ali Zardari on Tuesday called for reorganising the Pakistan People’s Party cadre in Lyari — the party’s bastion — and implementing various projects there ahead of his intended visit to the area.
Balochistan violence: Landmine blasts, shooting claim six lives
QUETTA: Six people, including a father, his son and two members of a pro-government Amn force, were killed in separate incidents of landmine explosions and firing in Jaffarabad and Dera Bugti on Sunday.
CID proposes bounties worth millions on notorious militants
KARACHI: After failing to arrest the culprits behind Lyari unrest, police have now announced reward money for the arrest of at least 24 gangsters of Lyari, including the bigwigs of banned People’s Amn Committee (PAC).
Lyari killing: Judge rejects police report
KARACHI: Additional District and Sessions Judge, South, Abdul Razzak Memon, rejected on Monday a police report about the case of Saquib alias Sakhi who was killed in what police claimed to be “an encounter” in one of the congested alleys...
Newly formed Lyari collective calls for Karachi to placed under Army for 180 days
KARACHI: Social and political stakeholders of Lyari announced an umbrella alliance on Thursday called the “Karachi City Alliance.” As the first order of business, it has called for Sindh government to suspend Governor of Sindh Dr Ishratul...