The Hazaras have resided in Balochistan for almost a century now, and have never been persecuted in Baluchistan until now. Balochistan has contracted the disease of sectarianism from the Punjab. The Baloch will never endorse anything as heinous as genocide. There is no room for sectarianism, racism and narrow-mindedness in Baloch society.
There has been quite a stir since I introduced a resolution this year calling for recognition of the right to self-determination by the people of Baluchistan. I drafted the measure after a Feb. 8 hearing by the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on oversight and investigations that exposed horrific violations of human rights by Pakistan security forces in Baluchistan.
The Khan of Kalat Mir Suleman Dawood has categorically rejected the impression that Pashtuns living in Balochistan are facing social and economic discrimination whereas they are receiving more than their due share from the province's economy.
Police force to be trained on modern lines and armed with sophisticated weapons. As many as 100 surveillance cameras would be installed in different neighbourhoods of Quetta to keep an eye on criminals.
Earlier today Pakistani armed forces are reported to have launched deadly operations in several parts of Balochistan including Kalat, Mastung, Manguchar, Isplinji, Nagahi, Koh-e-Maran, Khuzdar and Diagh. Observers say a large number of military and para-military personnel blocked both entrances and exits to the areas and proceeded to bombard the civilian Baloch populations with heavy shelling from gunship helicopters.
A Baloch nationalist leader who supports an independent Balochistan, Nawabzada Hairbayar Marri, has warned that if the international community does not cooperate with the Baloch people to check Pakistan's support for extremist Islamic groups, the menace would one day pose serious threats to the stability and security of other nations of the world.
Brahamdagh Bugti discusses foreign intervention in Balochistan, the American congressional bill introduced by Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, TAPI and IPI pipelines and NATO supplies.
The Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Expertise Training Program will be hosting the Pakistan Symposium: 2014 and Beyond to focus on two critical geographical/political areas in Pakistan - the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), and Baluchistan. We will be exploring these areas in terms of governance, economics, and security, as well as the impact of internal and external influences. Keynote speakers (including journalist and author Peter Bergen) will begin each day, followed by panel discussions involving the most noted experts on the region.
We the undersigned citizens, belonging to various sections of Pakistan's civil society, express our serious concern and alarm at the information-leak from a responsible and highly credible source that there is a serious threat to the life of the country's leading human rights activist and one of the most influential leaders of the bar, Ms Asma Jahangir.
A one-day seminar was held in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, on the ongoing human rights violations and current situation in Balochistan. The Swedish Liberal Party (POLK) and a Sweden-based Baloch political activist Mohammad Zainudini Baloch organised the event.