Various left-wing and nationalist organizations gathered today at the National Press Club, Islamabad, to condemn the abduction, torture and subsequent murder of Ali Sher Kurd, a Baloch lawyer, writer and poet.
Sanaullah Baloch - After creating political and economic disarray and committing atrocities, the majority of detested world leaders moved to different countries that offered them protection and pleasure. But a great number of the world's reviled state heads have remained in their countries, benefiting from their institutional connections and an incapable judicial system
"I come from a God-forsaken part of the world where neither the CNN nor the Al-Jazeerah TV networks have a full bureau. I am from Balochistan, which means the land of the Baloch, in southwest Asia. To be honest, Balochistan needs Wikileaks."
Malik Siraj Akbar - Another bullet-riddled dead body of a kidnapped Baloch lawyer, Ali Sher Kurd, was found from a desolate place in Khuzdar district, some 300-kilometer in southeast of Quetta, on late Thursday night, officials confirmed.
There is a great deal of news being generated in the Pakistani media about the relief work by the Pakistan Army. But, something that is not mentioned and something that very few people seem to know about is that whenever the army is called out to give assistance to the civilians they charge huge amounts for their services.
As a part of continuous campaign against forced-disappearances the International Voice for Baloch Missing Person is holding a protest demonstration in front of Amnesty International main office in London on Friday 1st October 2010. IVBMP believes that enforced disappearances constitute a crime against humanity and calls upon all Humanity loving individuals and organisations to rise against such crimes.
The end result of the war that we are fighting with our limited resources, relying solely on Baloch national strength, is the freedom of our homeland.
Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur - Zaman Khan Chalgari Marri, a practicing lawyer, was kidnapped on August 19, along with another lawyer Munir Ahmed Mirwani from Quetta. On September 6, his mutilated body was found in Mastung. He leaves behind an inconsolable wife, seven daughters, a son, a grieving family and an angry Baloch nation.
It's one of the last great taboos: the murder of at least 20,000 women a year in the name of 'honour'. Nor is the problem confined to the Middle East: the contagion is spreading rapidly
International Voice for Baloch Missing Persons has held a 5 hours long protest against enforced disappearances of Baluch student and political activists. The aim of the protest was to highlight the issue of growing forced-disappearing of Baloch political leaders and activists by Pakistani and Iranian authorities.