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 ...
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What Is This Country Hiding That It Has To Ban British Journalists?
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 ...
Read More »2,000 kilometers long march to highlight the issue of Baloch missing persons
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 ...
Read More »1, 40,000 killed, at least 20,000 Baloch are missing since 2006 : Nawab Brahumdagh Bugti
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 ...
Read More »Left-wing Pakistani activists call on Govt to support Baloch Marchers
LONDON: Left-wing Pakistani activists have called on the government of Pakistan to listen to the demands of Baloch campaigners who have staged a long-march through Pakistani towns and cities to the federal capital to highlight the issue of the alleged enforced disappearances of Baloch activists. Workers from various progressive, left-leaning Pakistani parties staged a demonstration outside Prime Minister David Cameron’s ...
Read More »Participants of long march from Balochistan arrive in Rawalpindi
Islamabad: The participants of Baloch long march have arrived today in Rawalpindi and will march towards Islamabad tomorrow. According to the details the participants of long march have arrived Rawalpindi and will march towards Islamabad. The long march is being led by Mama Qadeer Baloch, vice chairman of Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP). The long march leader Mama Qadeer ...
Read More »Unending trial
By Raza Wazir Pushing a four-wheeled cart on the main Canal road along with two men and a dozen or so women, Mama Qadeer, surrounded by young students from Lahore marched on after months of having followed a similar routine all over Pakistan. The marchers, with pictures of missing family members placed like dead corpses on the push cart, marched ...
Read More »Pak-Iran Border Commission forms committee on border violations
QUETTA: The 17th Pak-Iran Joint Border Commission Friday formed a committee on border reported violations and agreed on joint efforts for tracking down the missing Iranian border guards. The Commission also called for taking stern action against elements using their soil for vicious plans. It was third day of the high level meeting which met in the aftermath of abduction ...
Read More »Chief Minister Balochistan commends the services of Red Crescent in the province
QUETTA: A delegation of Pakistan Red Crescent Society Balochistan chapter, called on Chief Minister Balochistan, Dr Abdul Malik Baloch, here on Monday. The delegation briefed Chief Minister Balochistan about its humanitarian activities rendered in different parts of the province particularly its performance in situation of natural disasters. Briefing the Chief Minister, the delegation said that Red Crescent helped earthquake affectees ...
Read More »15 prisoners are hanged in Chabahar prison
HRANA News Agency – The judiciary of Sistan province has executed 15 prisoners, on charge of drug smuggling, in Chabahar prison. According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Habibollah Sarbazi, the reporter and TV producer told to HRANA’s reporter: “Khosro Barahouyi was a citizen of Loutak village of Zabol, two others were two brothers from Rigi ...
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