SAHER BALOCH TURBAT: Women take part in a demonstration. KARACHI: Protests that began a week ago in Turbat, Balochistan, are making their way to Karachi after reports of a woman held under house arrest in Turbat reached here through a human rights group. According to Ghani Parwaz, a member of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) who led a ...

WASHINGTON: Baloch separatist leader Brahamdagh Khan Bugti has said that he is not against political dialogue with the Pakistani government but those talks should focus on Baloch demands. Mr Bugti was among half a dozen speakers, including former ambassador Husain Haqqani, who attended an event held to mark the death anniversary of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti here at the National ...

Free Balochistan Movement: The Long March of Balochs from Düsseldorf to Berlin From 16th of July until 5th of August, activists of the Free Balochistan Movement went on traverse half of the Republic of Germany from Düsseldorf to Berlin by foot, equipped with flags of Balochistan and Germany, a megaphone and information leaflets to the German population about the atrocities ...

The former Afghan President Hamid Karzai endorsed the remarks by the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the human rights situation in Balochistan province of Pakistan. Speaking to a group of reporters during his visit to India, the former Afghan President said India had every right to respond to Pakistan’s provocations. “Pakistani authorities have spoken freely on Afghanistan and India, ...

 During my recent trip to Berlin, I was invited to attend the final leg of the peaceful ‘long march’ campaign which was launched in Dusseldorf on the 16th July 2016, by a group of Baloch activists in an effort to raise awareness and highlight the violation of human rights in Balochistan. Coincidentally, I happened to be in Berlin on the ...

Missing Baloch social worker was ‘picked up’ on Karachi Superhighway KARACHI: The whereabouts of social worker and publisher Abdul Wahid Baloch, a resident of Chakiwara in Lyari, are still unknown after he went ‘missing’ on July 26, while his family alleges that he was picked up by law enforcement agencies. A telephone operator at the Civil Hospital in Karachi, Abdul ...

KARACHI: Two women leaders of the Baloch Republican Party (BRP) said on Wednesday that more than 70 members of the party had been missing for several months and emphasised that the situation in Balochistan could only be normalised if aspirations of Baloch people were kept supreme. Addressing a press conference at the Karachi Press Club, Ailaaf Baloch and Afshan Baloch ...

The killing of a pro-independent Balochistan leader, Dr. Manan, on Saturday by the Pakistani security forces in Mastung is a great setback for establishing peace in volatile Balochistan. Dr. Manan was the secretary general of the Baloch National Movement (BNM), a political party that opposes Balochistan’s [what it bills as ‘forceful’] annexation with Pakistan and calls for a free homeland ...

PAKISTAN: Citing sources in Switzerland, a private local broadcaster said on Friday that a request by the self-exiled Baloch leader Brahamdagh Bugti for political asylum had been turned down by Swiss authorities, a claim which local sources did not corroborate. Sources close to events relating to unrest in Balo­chistan confirmed that the leader of the banned Baloch Republican Army (BRA) ...

The national government has done little to end the carnage in Balochistan, calling into question its willingness or ability to control the military and intelligence BERLIN: Baloch Republican Party (BRP) held a protest demonstration in Germany’s capital, Berlin to highlight the human rights violations and state atrocities in Balochistan. The protest was aimed at highlighting military operations, human rights violations,enforced ...