Balochistan's Ho Chi Minh moment
No state today may embark upon an ethnic cleansing of a people and then invoke sovereignty as a shield against international scorn or humanitarian intervention.
No flotilla for Balochistan: Western media ignore this ongoing, slow-motion genocide
A terrible war is unfolding in a faraway land called Balochistan. Almost daily, bodies of young men, kidnapped and tortured to death by the Pakistan occupation army, end up in ditches. Others, still alive, are thrown from helicopters into the arms of the rough mountain terrain below.
Balochistan ceasefire & political settlement proposed at UN
British human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell has "condemned Pakistan's intensified repression in Balochistan, urged the UN to send a fact-finding mission, called on the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants for Pakistani leaders and outlined proposals for military de-escalation and a negotiated political settlement in Balochistan.
VSH Interview With Dr. Allah Nazar
Dem Pa Dem's Razzaq Sarbazi and Shah Nawaz Interview Dr. Allah Nazar Baloch
Exclusive Interview With Sardar Akhtar jan Mengal by Homayoon Mobaraki Introduction part 1 (3)
Rozhn TV producer Homayoon Mobaraki interviews Baloch leader Sardar Akhtar Mengal: A long march with Sardar Akhtar Jan Mengal
Torments without end
The state patronage for intolerant "˜jihadist brigades' has slowly but gradually undermined the very foundations on which they thought they would build the edifice of the "˜Fortress of Islam'. It couldn't have been otherwise because once intolerance and bigotry is accepted and promoted, it turns on society itself and destroys it from within and this is exactly what is happening here
Indifference or Blackout
The previously overlooked fury in Balochistan against the mainstream media has gradually transformed into full-fledged public expression of dissatisfaction with how the national media covers the troubled province. Disgruntled young Balochs blame the media, particularly the private news channels, for allegedly building up the entire crisis in Balochistan by not objectively and completely reporting the conflict since its inception. They say neither are they pleased with the amount of coverage the country's largest province gets in the news bulletins, talk shows and documentaries nor are they appreciative of some journalists' pro-government depiction of the situation in Balochistan.
Pakistan's War Against "Miscreants"
All this means that Pakistan is continuing to violate its human rights obligations, but is meeting little international pressure to curb abuses
Silence is criminal
The Shia Muslims are being systematically murdered in Pakistan. Use the word "˜genocide' and people would begin to protest and bring forth the dustiest of legal definitions. "˜Ethnic cleansing' is slightly less contentious and is now occasionally being used in the case of the Hazara and other Shia. Reflect on the full import of the term for a moment, it has the implication that some people are merely filth and murder is a way to cleanse the impurity.
Bringing home the desert
Civilizations can never be made up, this is all hitherto history has to tell us, but yes they can be ruined to irretrievable notwithstanding.
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