Death squad TNAB threatens Baloch leaders
The spokesman of the fundamentalist militant Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Aman, Ghazi Khan, released a statement claiming that there is a conspiracy to break up the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
Kalat press club president gunned down
Four of the five journalists killed in Pakistan this year were either reporting in Balochistan or belonged to Balochistan.
Six relatives of abducted Baloch students disappeared
Pakistani security forces, Frontier Corps (FC), surrounded and raided several houses at dawn in the Chitkan area of District Panjgur and arrested several Baloch residents
Killing and Dumping Baloch Activists Now In Karachi
According to a B.B.C. Urdu report, at least five dead bodies of the missing Baloch people have been found in different parts of Karachi in the past one and half months. The pattern of the newly found dead is very similar to what was until recently described by the Amnesty International as the "kill and dump operations" in Balochistan. Political activists and citizens who disappear from Balochistan, mainly from the coastal region of Mekran, are now found dead in parts of Karachi.
Author Mohammed Hanif: Culture of impunity worsening plight of missing persons
A culture of impunity is increasing in the country to such an extent that those involved in cases of missing persons are sure that they can even get away with murder, said celebrated novelist and journalist Mohammed Hanif on Saturday.
BBC interviews widow of Baloch man kidnapped & killed by Pakistan Army
BBC interviews widow of Baloch man kidnapped & killed by Pakistan Army
Bodies of 10 previously abducted persons discovered in Balochistan and Karachi
Eight bullet-riddled bodies of previously abducted Baloch were found at two places in Balochistan province while two dead bodies were discovered in Karachi.
HRW World Report 2013: Pakistan
Security forces routinely violated basic rights in the course of counterterrorism operations. Suspects were frequently detained without charge or were convicted without a fair trial. Thousands of suspected members of al Qaeda, the Taliban, and other armed groups"”who were rounded up in a nationwide crackdown that began in 2009 in Swat and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas"”remained in illegal military detention; few were prosecuted or produced before the courts. The army continued to deny lawyers, relatives, independent monitors, and humanitarian agency staff access to persons detained during military operations. Terrorism suspects, particularly in the Swat Valley, reportedly died inexplicably of "natural causes." However, lack of access to the detainees made independent verification of the cause of death impossible.
Irfan Ali Who Died for Balochistan
Being a Hazara, Irfan Ali, was destined to collect the dead bodies of his community members ever since adolescence. He ceased to be just a Hazara or a Shia. He crossed every ethnic, sectarian or religious limits and became a true humanist.
The loneliness of Mama Qadeer Baloch
He sits alone at his protest camp but his loneliness is self-crowded. There is melody in the silence of his camp - a melody that rules the heart. It is our false imagination that we say he is alone. We wrongfully think he might become hopeless and abandon his struggle. He, however, feels surrounded in an environment of festivity - he sees happiness all around him and sees a world beyond what we see today. He sees a bright tomorrow. People think Mama Qadeer is insane but Mama Qadeer considers the world as crazy.
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