Shawn Forbes On the International Women’s Day I ask everyone to join me in celebrating the extensive accomplishments of the inspirational and influential women activists from the turbulent region of Balochistan.  Women like Voice for Baloch Missing Person’s General Secretary Farzana Majeed Baloch has remarkable role as human rights activist .Farzana  Majeed Baloch was an accomplished student, holding a MSC ...

Quetta: Three children and four women of same family have been seriously wounded in the blast in Bugti’s refugee camp in Afghanistan on Thursday. The Media cell of Baloch Republican Party (BRP) reported the attack. According to details a car loaded with explosives went off with huge blast in front of the house of Gul Bahar Bugti in refugee camp ...

QUETTA: Activists of the ruling National Party (NP) in Balochistan, staged a protest demonstration on Tuesday against killing of Bangal Khan Marri, the party president from Kohlu district. The protestors raised slogans against the Barkhaan district administration and demanded for an immediate arrest of the killers. Addressing the demonstration, Aslam Baloch, Agha Dawood Shah and others expressed their concerns and ...

QUETTA: Journalists in Balochistan staged a protest demonstration in Quetta against the killing of their colleague Ibrar Tanoli and others.  The Balochistan Union of Journalists (BUJ) staged a protest in front of the Quetta Press Club. Journalists chanted slogans and carried placards and banners inscribed with their demands. They demanded immediate arrest of killers of Ibarar Tanoli, a journalist of ...

QUETTA: A Baloch Culture Day was observed on 2nd  March in Balochistan and other parts of Pakistan. Baloch in different cities  marked  this day by wearing a traditional dresses and turban.Baloch also celebrate this day in Iran, Afghanistan, Dubai, Muscat, Bahrain,Saudi  Arabia and India. Baloch children and women also mark this day with traditional fervor amid taking out rallies and ...

ISLAMABAD: Chairman, Senate National Defence Committee, Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed, has urged Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to personally meet Mama Qadeer Baloch and his team.  He was talking to the media men on Sunday to share his experiences of the first-ever visit of the parliamentary Defence Committee to the Balochistan coastal cities of Gwadar and Ormara.  The senator said Pakistan’s ...

By Aziz Ejaz UN’s delegation visit to Pakistan as a fact finding team to investigate the cases of “enforced disappearances” plaguing the country at the invitation of the government did not forget Baluchistan, besides. UN’s delegation despite hearing directly to the victimized families rushed to state’s authorities as it has been affirmed by the interior minister of that time that ...

By Fatimah Mazhar In line with its reputation of being one of the most hostile places for journalists, Pakistan barred a British reporter from entering the country. Willem Marx was recently banned after he published Balochistan: At a Crossroads, a book about the unstable and poverty-stricken southern province of Pakistan. Although the Bloomberg TV reporter was heading to another city ...

By Abdus-Sattar Ghazali  The families of Baloch missing persons today, Friday Feb 28, 2014, completed more than 2,000 kilometers protest march on foot to highlight the issue of missing persons in Pakistan’s volatile Balochistan province.  The Voice for Baloch Missing Person (VBMP) organized the march, which started in Quetta, the capital city of Balochistan on October 27, 2013 and ended in ...

Geneva : Addressing a press conference at Geneva press club on 28 February,the Baloch nationalist leader and head of the Baloch Republican Party Nawab Brahumdagh Bugti  said that  1, 40,000  Baloch had  been  killed and  at least 20,000 Baloch were missing since 2006.  “Balochistan is burning since the forceful occupation by state in 1948. Five major military operations had been ...