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Quetta:  Women of the Baloch National Movement (B.N.M) on Saturday staged a protest demonstration outside Quetta press club against the appearances of mutilated dead bodies  and violation  of human right in Balochistan. The protesters were holding banners and place-cards inscribed with various slogans. They chanted   slogans against the state institutions and called upon the international human rights organizations to take   ...

QUETTA: The police recovered three bodies from the eastern bypass area of the provincial capital on Saturday. An official from the Satellite Town Police Station said that some passers-by spotted the bodies in Sasti Basti area, located in the premises of Quetta Development Authority (QDA) graveyard, and informed the police. The police rushed to the spot and cordoned off the ...

Quetta:  Balochistan National Party (BNP-Mengal), has decided to sit in the parliament to defend Baloch rights. A party announcement confirmed that the opinion sought from the party workers and activists from all over Balochistan favoured using the platform of parliament and assemblies for protecting the national rights of the Baloch people and exposing anti-Baloch policies in the form of military ...

The officeholders of Voice for Baloch Missing Persons talking to journalists during a press conference in Quetta Press Club on 26 June 2013 said that at least 320 Balochs had been forcefully disappeared and 80 previously abducted Baloch have been killed and dumped. The chairmen of Voice for Baloch Missing Persons, Nasrullah Baloch, and Vice Chairman, Mama Qadeer Baloch expressed ...

Kalat: Several villages of district Kalat of Balochistan lack facilities of pure drinking water.  The women and children fetch water from dirty pools of rain water from distance of about 10-15Km on the back of animals.  No attention of previous governments, elected Member of National Assemably (M.N.A) and Member of Provincial Assembly (M.P.A)  for the provision of such a basic ...

Awaran: Eight workers of preaching party abducted from Mosque in Tehsil Jhao Tuseday-Wednesday night.  According to the eye witnesses, unidentified   armed men surrounded mosque and kidnapped eight persons who were on mission of preaching Islamic values and teachings. The victims belonged  to Peshawar and Bannu, who had arrived Telar Jhao area of Tehsil Jaho some 80 Km from district Awaran ...

Hasrat Iqbal Baloch Quetta: On 26 June, a complete shutter down was observed throughout Balochistan against enforced disappearance of seven young Bugti tribesmen allegedly   picked up by security forces and later on their dead bodies were recovered. The Baloch nationalist and pro-freedom party Baloch Republican Party B.R.P being led by Bramdagh Bugti had given call for shutter down against their murder. ...

Addressing a press conference on Tuseday, renowned human rights activist and member of Human Rights Commission of Pakistan Asma Jehangir said that there are continuing reports of serious human rights violation, enforced disappearances, torture and extra-judicial killing in Balochistan. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan team comprising Asma Jahangir, Justice Malik Saeed Hassan, journalist Kamran Shafi, cultural critic and human ...

By Ben Farmer, Doha The US Secretary of State said he was unsure talks could be salvaged and blamed Taliban envoys for the furor last week when Afghan leader Hamid Karzai threatened to pull out because the insurgents portrayed their office as the embassy of a government in exile. In downbeat comments which appeared aimed at putting pressure on the Taliban, he ...

From Express Tribune  LAHORE: Asma Jahangir will lead the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) high level fact finding mission to Balochistan in light of Saturday’s terrorist attacks in Quetta and Ziarat. In the press statement made on Tuesday, HRCP strongly condemned the attacks and went on to add that the attacks have greater significance in light of the recent political changes ...