Appeal to PM, President, CJ for recovery of missing Baloch
KARACHI: In a Press conference at the Karachi Press Club on Tuesday, Abid Baloch, the younger brother of missing Arif Noor Baloch appealed to President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani, and Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry to help win the release of his brother who has been missing since midnight, October 31, 2010.
Human rights activist Naeem Sabir shot dead in Khuzdar
A prominent coordinator of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) in Balochistan was gunned down by unidentified assailants in Khuzdar, some 300 kilometres from the provincial capital on Tuesday.
BHRC expresses concern over Pakistani atrocities
Baloch Human Rights Council (UK) strongly condemned and expressed extreme concern over the continuing human rights violations being perpetrated by the Pakistani state security agencies in Balochistan.
Bodies of Mehboob Wadela and Arif Rehman found near Ormara
Mehboob Wadhela, abducted by Pakistani security agents on April 4, 2010, is found dead, along with Arif Rehman, on February 23, 2011. Arif Rehman was abducted on September 3, 2010, from Rancho Line, Karachi. Their bodies were recovered near Omara.
Pakistan: Balochistan atrocities continue to rise
The Pakistan government must immediately provide accountability for the alarming number of killings and abductions in Balochistan attributed to government forces in recent months, Amnesty International said today.
Journalist gunned down in Pakistan's violent Baluchistan
The Committee to Protect Journalists joins with the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) in calling for an investigation into the drive-by shooting death of Abdost Rind, a 27-year-old part-time journalist in the Turbat area of Baluchistan province in Pakistan's southwest on February 18
100 Disappeared Balochs Killed in 7 Months: VBMP
QUETTA: President of Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP), Nasrullah Baloch, has said that the issue of missing persons was worsening with each passing day as about 100 missing persons had been killed during past seven months in the official custody.
Father From Panjgur Seeks Missing Son's Release
QUETTA: President of Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP), Nasrullah Baloch, has said that the issue of missing persons was worsening with each passing day as about 100 missing persons had been killed during past seven months in the official custody.
Supreme Court should hear cases of extrajudicial killings of disappeared persons
Disappearances in Pakistan have become a routine matter and it has been accepted by the authorities as a normal practice of the law enforcement agencies, including the army and its intelligence agencies. The major political parties, who are in sizeable numbers in the parliament, are also silent on the issue of enforced disappearances and torture in military detention cells. The distress caused by the disappearances is that, despite the departure of the government of President Musharraf, the menace continues under the present civilian government. On average, every month at least five or six persons are abducted and disappeared by plain clothed persons in Balochistan alone. This is frequently done in the presence of police officers who then refuse to lodge FIRs saying that the intelligence agencies are involved.
Pakistan continues abductions, kill and dump policy of Baloch student and political activists
Two bullet-riddled bodies found near Turbat, three missing person found in severely injured condition, BRP member attack and wounded in Mashky, a resident of Pasi town of Balochistan has been abducted from Hub town.
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