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Aljazeera.com
April 27, 2018
In a statement following the attack, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) took "grave notice of the alarming spike in violence that has shot through Quetta". "[HRCP ... "This is basically the work of sectarian militant organisations which have gained strength in Balochistan in the last few years.".
Balochwarna News
April 26, 2018
Baloch Republican Party UK Chapter activists demonstrated outside at the ten Downing Street in London and requested the UK government to take notice of human rights violations and Baloch genocide by Pakistan army in Balochistan. In an address to the media, BRP UK Chapter's President, MansoorÃÂ ...
Afternoon Voice
April 17, 2018
English city Westminster has been emblazoned with slogans raising human rights issue in Pakistan ahead of Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in London. On Monday night, the World Baloch Organisation (WBO) organised a projection over the UK Houses of Parliament that readÃÂ ...
Geo News, Pakistan
April 17, 2018
During the same visit when Sharif addressed the General Debate of the United Nations General Assembly, Mustikhan led a protest against Pakistan outside the venue for an organisation called “Free Balochistan Campaign USA” and accused the Pakistani premier of being involved in human rightsÃÂ ...
The Diplomat
April 5, 2018
On Easter Monday, four members of a Christian family were shot dead in Quetta, the capital of Pakistan's volatile Balochistan province. ... Amidst continued human rights abuses in that very province, orchestrated by that very institution, he chose to suggest that the perpetrators of the latest act of terror don'tÃÂ ...
Daily Times
April 2, 2018
Furthermore, the Security forces in Pakistan violate the human rights in many counterterrorism operations in Balochistan and FATA. Suspects are frequently detained during operations without charge and or convicted without a fair trial. According to an independent report, there are 50,000 people displacedÃÂ ...
Balochwarna News
April 1, 2018
QUETTA: The mother of a teenage Baloch boy, who was abducted by Pakistani forces from a Pakistani army sponsored festival (Makuran Mela), has appealed the social media activists to help ... His mother has requested social media and human rights activists to play their role for her son's safe recovery.
Balochwarna News
April 1, 2018
In London, Free Balochistan Movement activists held an awareness session about Balochistan's occupation day in Cumberland Hotel London. Baloch diaspora and human rights activists joined FBM seminar in London. Speakers including Khan of Kalat Suleman Daud Khan, Ismael Amiri of BalochistanÃÂ ...
Balochwarna News
April 1, 2018
It is pertinent to mention that Pakistani forces have geared up unlawful abductions and extrajudicial killings in Balochistan in past few months. Baloch Human Rights Organisations and pro-freedom Baloch parties say that there are more than 20,000 Baloch currently in the illegal torture centres of theÃÂ ...
Business Standard
March 31, 2018
Recently, at the 37th session of the Human Rights Council, activists raised the issue of enforced disappearances, torture and killings of several Baloch activists and intellectuals. A Pakistan journalist, named Taha Siddiqui, said that the Islamabad government has been neglecting the instances of abductionÃÂ ...
News18
March 28, 2018
He says, “Indresh Ji may be a senior RSS functionary but as a common, conscious citizen, his political affiliation, his cultural affiliation is immaterial for Hind Baloch Forum. This is a civil society movement that concerns itself with the human rights violations against the people in Balochistan. It wants to join itsÃÂ ...
Business Standard
March 28, 2018
"We condemn and reject CPEC that is making our lives a hell, it will vanish us (Baloch) from the face of the earth by a mega demographic change when millions of Chinese and Punjabis will settle in Balochistan. The day CPEC started, human rights violations climbed to the level of genocide," she furtherÃÂ ...
Hindustan Times
March 27, 2018
The activists welcome the Narendra Modi government's efforts in recent years to raise the profile of the Balochistan issue, including raising the matter at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. However, there is a concern that the support arises as and when India wants to retaliate toÃÂ ...
Business Standard
March 26, 2018
A group of Baloch political and student activists in Canada gathered at Fairview Library in Toronto to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Pakistan's occupation ... The event organized by Baloch National Movement (BNM) was supported by Sindhi, Pashtun, Kashmiri, Kurd and other human rights activists.
ANI News
March 20, 2018
The aim of the conference was to apprise the international community about the grave human rights situation faced by the people of Sindh and Balochistan in Pakistan. Executive Director for South Asia Democratic Forum Paulo Casaca, setting the tone for the conference, informed that the human rightsÃÂ ...
Business Standard
March 20, 2018
A conference on the human rights situation in Sindh and Balochistan was held on Tuesday in the United Nations on the sidelines of the 37th session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). The aim of the conference was to apprise the international community about the grave human rights situationÃÂ ...
Times of India
March 14, 2018
Baloch activists, Muhammad Jawad and Abdul Nawaz Bugti, raised issue of human rights violations and state terrorism committed by Pakistan in Balochistan, at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. Activists highlighted the atrocities committed by Pakistan against women and children ofÃÂ ...
Times of India
March 9, 2018
GENEVA: Pakistan's armed forces and intelligence agencies are at the heart of the continuing human rights violations in that country's Balochistan province, claimed three senior Baloch activists in separate addresses at the 37th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) being held inÃÂ ...
Scroll.in
March 8, 2018
Mini Devi Kumam, the second secretary at India's mission to UNHRC, was replying to Pakistan's claims of human rights abuse by New Delhi in Kashmir. She pointed out human rights violations in Balochistan, Sindh and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. Pakistan has “habitually” been misleading the UNHRC onÃÂ ...
The Sunday Guardian
March 3, 2018
It should be noted here that the diaspora in America and Europe had launched international campaigns of “Free Balochistan” with posters on public transport and billboards to create awareness among the international community over alleged human rights violations being carried out in several districts ofÃÂ ...
The Nation
March 2, 2018
QUETTA - Balochistan lawyers on Thursday, remembering human rights champion and a prominent lawyer late Ms Asma Jahangir, said the renowned lawyer was the voice of oppressed and a symbol of struggle and resistance. “She made her life a lightening principle for the next generation,” lawyersÃÂ ...
ANI News
March 1, 2018
"The human rights situation in Balochistan is increasingly worrying, with recurrent cases of enforced disappearances, arbitrary detentions and extrajudicial killings of the Baloch individuals. The Balochs have faced systematic economic deprivation and social and political exclusion since the occupation byÃÂ ...
DAWN.com
February 12, 2018
On Asma Jahangir's death, the former Balochistan chief minister, Sardar Akhtar Mengal, tweeted: “Balochistan is forever in your debt.” His remarks echoed the broader sentiments of the people of Balochistan who widely treated the iconic human rights defender as their champion and dependableÃÂ ...
Balochwarna News
February 10, 2018
LONDON: The Baloch Republican Party has held a protest demonstration outside the official residence of the British Prime Minister at number 10 Downing Street on Saturday. A large number of the BRP activists and other human rights activists have participated in the protest to express their solidarity withÃÂ ...
Center for Human Rights in Iran
February 9, 2018
“Because of the security situation and the complexities of the region, we don't have access to all the information… but in 2017 we were able to document at least 39 casualties,” Habibollah Sarbazi, the director of the Baloch Activists Campaign (BAC), told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) onÃÂ ...
Times of India
February 6, 2018
The World Baloch Organisation, which campaigns for the rights of the ethnic Baloch population in Pakistan, had plastered black cabs in Manchester with posters that read "#FreeBalochistan from human rights abuses". The organisation said the campaign was an "attempt to highlight the worsening humanÃÂ ...
Economic Times
December 31, 1999
Baloch Republic Organisation (BRO) UK, protested in London against Human Rights violations by Pakistan in Balochistan. The protest took place at 10 Downing Street in London. Mansoor Baloch, President of BRP urged UK Government to intervene in the Balochistan Genocide issue. For the latest videos,ÃÂ ...
HuffPost
January 17, 2018
You may never have heard of The World Baloch Organization (WBO), but they are hoping that will soon change. The WBO is a human rights organization that lobbies against the human rights abuses committed by the Pakistan military and intelligence agencies against the Baloch people in its own country.
Pakistan Today
January 6, 2018
After the disappearance, Sindh Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) Vice Chairman Asad Iqbal had said that if a crime was committed then these youth should be produced in the court of law. “Protesting against the 'disappearance' of Sagheer Ahmed Baloch was his democratic right,” he added.
ANI News
January 6, 2018
... used as covert tools to brutally repress the peaceful struggle for justice, rights and equality of the Baloch. Reports say at least 8,000 Baloch citizens are still victims of enforced disappearances in Balochistan, while 1,500 such victims were killed and dumped, according to human rights organisations. (ANI)ÃÂ ...
Hindustan Times
December 28, 2017
The slogans include “#FreeBalochistan from human rights abuses” and “Raise your voice against human rights abuses in #Balochistan by Pakistan Army”. Referring to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor that goes up to Gwadar port in Balochistan, one of the signs read, “No to CPEC, the China-PakistanÃÂ ...
Times of India
December 27, 2017
... the ethnic persecution and gross human rights violations in Pakistan-occupied Balochistan and support the Baloch people's quest for peace and freedom. We want the US to cut off all military aid to Pakistan and hold it accountable for its crimes in Balochistan," said WBO a spokesperson Bhawal Mengal,ÃÂ ...
Hindustan Times
December 25, 2017
It has since begun mobile advertising, with trucks driving around the city with posters saying “#FreeBalochistan from human rights abuses” and “Raise your voice against human rights abuses in #Balochistan by Pakistan Army”. The trucks drove around the consulates of Pakistan and China, WBO said in aÃÂ ...
India Today
December 20, 2017
New York, Dec 20 (PTI) After a successful month of implementing the campaign in London, the World Baloch Organisation today kicked-off human rights advertisement on taxis in New York city. Rooftops of more than 100 yellow taxis have been placed with colourful "#Free Balochistan from human rightsÃÂ ...
The Diplomat
December 19, 2017
Speaking to the Senate's Functional Committee on Human Rights last year soon after the attack on Police Academy in Quetta, Balochistan Home Secretary Mohammad Akbar said: “The provincial administration has no legal power in Balochistan, which has become a war zone.” Akbar further addedÃÂ ...
Business Standard
December 10, 2017
"The aim of this protest is to raise awareness about the human rights violations in Balochistan. On December 10, we appeal to the United Nations, European Union and other civilized countries to break their silence on the human rights violations in Balochistan," BRP, South Korea Chapter President AmeerÃÂ ...
ANI News
December 31, 1999
Quetta [Pakistan], Jan 12 (ANI): A Baloch sister has appealed the human rights organisations and media to help her raise voice for her brother's safe release, who was abducted by the Pakistani security forces on December 15, 2017. Mahrang Baloch, daughter of late Ghaffar Lagov Baloch, held a press conference at QuettaÃÂ ...
ANI News
December 31, 1999
Among them were former Afghan President Hamid Karzai, leading South Asia expert and former Pakistani ambassador Hussain Haqqani, several Baloch freedom and human rights activists cutting across party lines, former head of Afghanistan's Directorate of Security Amrullah Saleh, and even normallyÃÂ ...
DAWN.com
December 11, 2017
QUETTA: Balochistan Assembly Speaker Raheela Hameed Durrani has underlined the need for protecting human rights in order to establish a civilised society. Speaking at the function arranged by the Ministry of Human Rights to mark the International Human Rights Day here on Sunday, she said that theÃÂ ...
Pakistan Today
December 11, 2017
She was addressing an event arranged by the Ministry of Human Rights to mark the International Human Rights Day. She said that protection of basic human rights has been guaranteed in the Constitution of Pakistan without any discrimination adding that Balochistan government is now taking all possibleÃÂ ...
Balochwarna News
December 11, 2017
The Baloch nation is facing human rights violations and abuses since the forcible and illegal occupation of Balochistan by Pakistan on 27 March 1948. There has been variation in the Pakistani military and 'democratic government' atrocities in Balochistan but from past 15 years Pakistani forces barbaricÃÂ ...
Pakistan Today
December 10, 2017
On Thursday, the Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights called the recovered missing persons to enquire about the circumstances under which they went missing, dismissing the Balochistan additional secretary statement that only 136 missing persons have gone missing in the province.
ANI News
December 10, 2017
"The aim of this protest is to raise awareness about the human rights violations in Balochistan. On December 10, we appeal to the United Nations, European Union and other civilized countries to break their silence on the human rights violations in Balochistan," BRP, South Korea Chapter President AmeerÃÂ ...
ANI News
December 9, 2017
Athens [Greece], Dec 9 (ANI): Baloch Republican Party's (BRP) Greece Chapter held a protest demonstration outside the Switzerland Embassy in Athens, the country's capital, over the Swiss Government's decision of turning down the asylum application of Baloch national leader Nawab Brahumdagh Bugti, the party said in ...
The Nation
December 9, 2017
The question is what kind of peace do we want in Balochistan ? A peace obtained by just averting conflicts or insurgency would have no real value. Often oppressive policies leading to the human rights violation are used to enforce such superficial calm. This kind of peace has existed in Balochistan for over ...
ANI News
December 8, 2017
Reports say at least 8,000 Balochs are still the victims of enforced disappearances in Balochistan, while 1,500 such victims were killed and dumped, according to human rights organisations. Last month, the Amnesty International had called upon the authorities in Pakistan to immediately end enforced ...
ANI News
December 8, 2017
Vancouver [Canada], December 8 (ANI): The World Baloch Women Forum (WBWF) has condemned the abduction of Baloch leader Allah Nazar's sister ... 8,000 Baloch are still victims of enforced disappearances in Balochistan, while 1,500 such victims were killed and dumped, according to human rights organisations. (ANI)Â ...
Gandhara
December 7, 2017
He has addressed open sessions of the United Nations Human Rights Council and held demonstrations outside the global body's offices in Geneva. While denying any involvement in violence or connection with the numerous militant groups active in Balochistan, Mehran Baluch thinks his activism has ...
UNPO
November 30, 2017
Earlier in the month, the Government of Pakistan pressured the Transport for London to remove the #FreeBalochistan ads, claiming that they were irresponsible and offensive to the Pakistani diaspora. The #FreeBalochistan ads aimed to raise awareness of the human rights abuses that the Balochis face at ...
The Diplomat
November 22, 2017
According to Khalil Ahmed, president of the Balochistan Union of Journalists, .... politics, Balochistan issues, extremism and human rights.
