Baloch & Balochistan

We Been Given only Two Hours to Meet UN Working Group on Baloch Missing Persons: VBMP By Archen Baloch Quetta: The leader of Voice for Baloch Missing Persons, Waja Nasrulllah Baloch complained that they have been given only two hours to meet the UN Working Group on enforced Disappeared Persons in Balochistan. He said that the head of Judicial committee retired Justice Javed Iqbal is speaking the language of secret agencies by lessening the number of Baloch Missing Persons. The long march announcement of Dafae Pakistan Council against United Nations’ visit to Balochistan is a ploy of secret agencies. In a joint press conference with Mama Qadir Baloch at Judicial Street, the leader of VBMP said that they had already expressed their reservation about the appointment of Retired Justice Javed Iqbal as the head of Judicial Committee for The Missing Persons. At the behest of secret agencies, Javed Iqbal has, as usual, presented United Nations Working Group with Misleadi...

Pakistan: The demon the West created BY TAREK FATAH FIRST POSTED:  TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2012 07:49 PM EDT August is a month that brings both joy and grief to the 1.3 billion people of the Indian subcontinent. Joy, as we celebrate the end of nearly 200 years of British colonial rule in 1947, and sorrow as we remember the one million who were slaughtered unnecessarily in a genocidal frenzy of religious hatred. Punjab, my ancestral homeland, was sliced in two by the departing British to create the new state of Pakistan. In a few short months, the entire population of Punjab’s indigenous Sikhs and Hindus in Pakistan was either slaughtered or driven out by raging mobs of Muslim fanatics. On the other side of the border, there was more bloodshed. The question often asked is, who penned the partition of India? Who was responsible for carving out Pakistan, a country that seems to have an insatiable appetite for bloodshed, and that has been responsible for, or associated with, more act...

US-Pakistan ties: worse to awful Eric S. Margolis (America Angle) / 6 August 2012   I was visiting Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States when the phone on his desk rang. “The hot line,” he said. “Sorry I have to take this call.” As he listened, his face grew darker and darker. Finally, he banged down the phone and exploded: “Another US drone attack that killed a score of our people. We were never warned the attack was coming. We are supposed to be US allies!” This strongly pro-American ambassador was wrong. While the US hails Pakistan as a key non-NATO ally, the US treats it like a militarily occupied country. The government in Islamabad is left to observe increasing drone attacks and CIA ground operation with deepening embarrassment and helplessness. Average Pakistanis have no doubt about what’s happening. Most believe their nation was more or less occupied by the US after the 2001 attacks on the US. The Pakistani leader who allowed this to happen, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, h...

Illegal crackdown and constitutional breakdown in Balochistan By Hafeez Hasanabadi – Translated by Zabaad Baloch Pakistan’s Chief justice has been hearing cases of abducted Baloch from past six months in Balochistan. He has been passing remark after remark and giving date after date but with no affect. He admits that no one listens to his orders; neither the Police are answerable here nor the FC, ISI and other security agencies are ready to accept their crimes. He went on to say, “We have asked for people to be produced before the court but instead they were killed and dumped. The provincial government has become completely ineffective, from the chief minister to other provincial minsters and bureaucrats have nothing to do with the affairs of the province; everyone is trying to hide from the factual situation. Hence there is a constitutional crisis in Balochistan.” These remarks of the Chief Justice are true because the Voice for Baloch Missing Persons in Balochistan and the ...

Tehran Builds on Outreach to Taliban By MARIA ABI-HABIB KABUL—Iran has allowed the Taliban to open an office in eastern Iran and discussed providing them with surface-to-air missiles, ramping up the potential for cooperation with the insurgents, according to senior Afghan and Western officials. Iran's shift came after the U.S. and Afghanistan sealed a long-term partnership agreement in May, and in an effort to expand its options for retaliation should its nuclear facilities be attacked, the officials said. Enlarge Image Iran, a Shiite theocracy, wasn't friendly with the Sunni Taliban government ousted by the U.S. in 2001 and hasn't permitted an official Taliban presence in the country until now. But these days both sides "see America as the bigger enemy" a Western official in Kabul said. "Iran is willing to put aside ideology and put aside deeply held religious values…for their ultimate goal: accelerating t...

***PRESS RELEASE*** Rep. Rohrabacher Requests Information on Missing Baluch; Questions Administration's Actions Washington, Jul 30 - Today, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) sent a letter Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, asking her to provide his office with information related to the case of a missing Baluch man named Zakir Majeed. Mr. Majeed, who was the Vice-Chairman of the Baluch Student Organization, was abducted on June 2009. Human rights groups have recorded hundreds of cases of ethnic Baluch men disappearing or being killed by Pakistan’s security forces. The Pakistani government uses kidnapping and murder to repress Baluch who express a desire for autonomy. Earlier this year, Rep. Rohrabacher raised the case of British citizen Noordin Mengal, who was the delegate to the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization for Baluchistan, ...