By Perak Baloch: Hyrbyair Marri, an exiled pro-freedom Baloch leader announced his new political platform, Free Balochistan Movement (FBM) to highlight Pakistan’s atrocities and human rights violations in Balochistan. He announced the platform by initiating a long march campaign in Germany on July 16. He said in a public statement that the long march in…
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Category Archives: Balochistan
Why does the killing of Baloch by ISIS affiliates make no news in the mainstream media?
By Meerain Baloch: On 28th August this year, some masked men came from nowhere on motorcycles, barged into a zikrkhana (place of worship) and opened fire indiscriminately at people who were engaged in their routine prayers. Six people were killed on the spot and scores were seriously wounded. One succumbed to his wounds before getting…
This is Balochistan, where keeping books is a crime
By Meerain Baloch: Some years back a Punjabi lecturer at Turbat Residential College made a complaint to the paramilitary troops of the Frontier Corps (FC), formed totally of non-Balochs, that some Baloch professors had desecrated Islam by hanging rosaries on a picture of a monkey. The FC invaded a teachers’ hostel and arrested two Baloch…
From Bangladesh to Balochistan: A history of arrest, torture and mass killing
By Meerain Baloch: On 27th October 2013 a group of people began a 750 km long march from Quetta to Karachi carrying placard and banners inscribed with slogans such as “Stop killing Baloch civilians” and “Human rights organization must help for the recovery of Baloch missing persons”. An old man aged 70 led the long march…
