Terror outsourced
In Balochistan, the lives of Baloch journalists, intellectuals, students and activists are very tenuous. Newspapers reported that on August 18 and 19, a total of eight bodies of missing persons were found from Pasni, Hub and Mastung areas. Four of these were found in Mastung, which the Baloch claim were in retaliation for the attack on Siraj Raisani. The terror against the Baloch people has been outsourced by the army and the FC to death squads going under names such as Baloch Mussala Diffa Tanzeem and Tehreek Nifaz Aman Balochistan, which are run from Mastung and Khuzdar.
Pakistan's Bitter, Little-Known Ethnic Rebellion
GENEVA "” A slim figure in a dark suit, Brahumdagh Bugti, 30, could pass for a banker in the streets of this sedate Swiss city. But in truth he is a resistance leader in exile, a player in an increasingly ugly independence war within Pakistan
Balochistan caught in spiral of violence
A recently-released fact-finding report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) stated that "The Pakistani security services are brazenly disappearing, torturing and often killing people because of suspected ties to Baloch nationalist movement".
Balochistan's Forgotten Saleem Shahzad (s)
Saleem Shahzad, the Asia Times journalist, who was allegedly killed by the Inter-Services Intelligence, today epitomizes journalistic courage. His name is also intertwined with reporters' extraordinary reactions in Pakistan to the murder of a fellow colleague by the country's invisible soldiers.
Body bags in Baluchistan
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Human rights watchdogs have repeatedly called on Islamabad to stop unlawful killings in Baluchistan, where hundreds of political activists have been killed in separatist and sectarian violence involving both homegrown and regional insurgents.
Saggaan ra kushaada-and, "˜o' sing ra basta
Half-hearted denials and condemnations are not going to appease the tormented and agonised families who lose their dear ones nor hoodwink the people who struggle for their rights
Mother of abducted Baloch son looks to hactivists for information
We hope that those hackers will see the pictures of our missing people and the pictures of brutal torture and, if they do, I am sure they will understand how the families of these people--mother, father, sister, wife or brother--all feel pain over them. We still have faith in this world and the millions who feel the pain of other human beings, but we also need information. We need to find our loved ones.
Pakistan's military accused of escalating draconian campaign in Balochistan
Human rights groups criticise lack of action by civilian leaders to check torture and execution of nationalists in border region
When citizens look to hackers for help
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Was this [Lieutenant General Javed Zia's statement] a tacit admission that the ISI and the Frontier Corps have been involved in the extrajudicial killings, as independent and Baloch observers have repeatedly alleged?
DailyTimes editorial: Balochistan and the army's 'concerns'
Lieutenant General Javed Zia expressed his concern that the way things were going, it might result in Balochistan breaking away from the country.
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