Translated from the Urdu: Quetta Online News Agency (March 26, 2012) and Daily Intekhab (March 23, 2012) reports

Translated by H. Baloch

March 26: Quetta (Online news agency) Mr. Sher Muhammad Bugti, spokesperson of the Baluch Republican Party's central organizing committee said in a press release that the the Pakistanis are only interested in the resources of the Baluch and not the people themselves.

Mr. Sher Muhammad said that on December 27, 2010, nineteen Baluch men, including his brother Shahnawaz Bugti, were abducted from Sui, Dera Bugti, by Pakistani forces.

On the December 29th, 2010, his brother Shawnawaz and another abductee's bodies were found. On March 25, 2011, a mass grave was discovered in Dera Bugti, the bodies exhumed were of Ali Bux Bugti, Shah Bux Bugti, Iqbal Mazari, Rahem Dil Bugti, Koh Dil Bugti and Khetran Bugti, all of whom were abducted on December 27, 2010.

The whereabouts of the remaining eleven men are still unknown. The discovery of mass-graves in Baluchistan are a question mark regarding the morality of the Muslim countries and the rest of the international community. The international community should take immediate and serious notice of the discovery of the mass-graves found in Baluchistan.

Mr. Sher Muhammad also said that the Pakistani state, in an attempt to secure its economic capital, Karachi, from a perceived Baluch threat, has expanded its genocidal operations against the Baluch to Karachi and elsewhere in Sindh. Sher Muhammad said that the BRP condemns the operation in Lyari, a Baluch locality of Karachi.

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23rd March 2012, Quetta, Baluchistan: The Daily Intekhab reported the Pakistani Frontier Corp, police and other security forces carried out joint search operations in the localities of Killi Ismael, Killi Jumma Khan and adjoining areas following the killing of two policemen in Quetta's upscale and high security locality of Jinnah town. The spokesman for the Frontier Corp confirmed rounding up sixteen men, alleging that eleven of the sixteen taken into custody are target-killers, three are kidnappers, and two are petty criminals. During the past twenty four hours Pakistani security forces have taken seventy men into custody. Security measures have been tightened in Quetta as members of the Pakistani occupation prepare to celebrate Pakistan day in occupied Baluchistan.