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QUETTA: Over the past decade and a half, the Nasirabad division has witnessed at least four major floods.
Consisting of the Jafferabad, Nasirabad, Jhal Magsi and Kachhi districts, this region is considered the ‘green belt of the province’, with agriculture being the primary occupation of most (...)
The renowned Baloch activist Karima Baloch was found dead in Toronto after going missing for a day. Earlier this year another Baloch activist and journalist, Sajid Hussain, also went missing in Sweden and later his body was found in a river. Such assassinations are meant to silence the rising (...)
Women’s Action Forum, Karachi, joins AWP in mourning the tragic loss of lives of our brothers and sisters in the bombing in Quetta today. We are bereaved by the deaths of respected members of the legal community and journalists who were killed on duty. Our grief extends to the families of all (...)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-120-2016 9 August, 2016
A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission
PAKISTAN: UN must probe massacre of 97 persons including 63 lawyers by in the bomb attack on a hospital in Quetta
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), joins everyone who is shocked (...)
Explosion, reportedly killing at least 67, occurred as body of prominent lawyer, Bilal Kasi, arrived at hospital after he was shot.
At least 67 people have been killed and another 100 injured after a suicide bomb packed with ball bearings tore through a crowded state-run hospital in Quetta, (...)
The Awami Workers Party condemns the deadly blast at Civil Hospital in Quetta in which over 50 people have lost their lives, most of them lawyers gathered for the funeral of recently-assassinated Balochistan Bar Association President Anwar Kasi. AWP expresses its deepest condolences to the (...)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-016-2016 5 February 2016
A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission
PAKISTAN : Baloch Activists Punished for Dissent
Since inception, Pakistan has been at war with its own citizens ; time and again the State has indulged in gross human rights violation to (...)
Growth-centered notions of development will continue to fuel the insurgency and war that we keep ignoring in Balochistan.
On March18th, 2014 around 5:00pm in Quetta, Zahid Baloch chairperson of Baloch Student Organization– Azad (BSO-A), was abducted at gun point. Banuk Karima, vice chairperson of BSO-A, witnessed the abduction. She notes, ’Pakistan’s secret agencies and security forces abducted Zahid Baloch, I along (...)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-216-2013 November 21, 2013
A Statement from the Asian Human Rights Commission
PAKISTAN: The Long Marchers have completed 700 km and entered Karachi after travelling 27 days on foot
Before reaching Karachi a car tried to ram the walkers on three occasions and (...)
Lahore, October 13, 2013: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Sunday launched the report of a fact-finding mission to Balochitsan.
Apart from the overall human rights situation in the province, the mission looked at a terrorist attack on students of a women’s university in Quetta (...)
There is something off when amongst two incidents of terrorism in Balochistan; one in which a building was destroyed, the other in which 25 people, including 15 girl students, were killed, the most grief expressed is for the building. The attack on medical students and a hospital are mentioned (...)
On May 1, 2013, 22,000 troops and 50,000 ‘law enforcers’ entered 12 districts of Balochistan to “conduct a free-and-fair election”. The existing number of troops in the areas shall not be revealed to us, nor the fact that de facto these areas had been no-go areas for the military since the current (...)
OVER THE ELEVEN years that have elapsed since 9/11, Pakistan has found itself in the headlights of the mainstream press for a few, consistent reasons. International audiences have been instructed to worry earnestly about the country’s fate, what with the Army’s “double-game” in Afghanistan, drone (...)
Last week, three Republicans (Dana Rohrabacher, Louie Gohmert, and Steve King) sponsored a bill “recognizing Baluchistan’s right to self-determination.” This sparked widespread condemnation by the Pakistani ruling and military class (who saw the maneuver as meddling in internal politics) and (...)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-005-2012 January 6, 2012
A Statement from the Asian Human Rights Commission
PAKISTAN: Army creates an organization to kill intellectuals and activists in Balochistan, in the name of peace
An organization claiming to work for the restoration of peace in (...)
The very unfortunate situation in Balochistan seems to have raised little concern in other parts of the country. The ethnic media appears more concerned about the ‘ghairat business’ or events occurred in Karachi or Islamabad. There are dozens of military detention centers in Balochistan, where (...)
PRESS RELEASE
PILER condemns murder of Prof. Dashtiyari; demands high-powered commission of enquiry
KARACHI, June 3: Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (PILER) has strongly condemned the murder of noted scholar and Professor Saba Dashtiyari in Quetta and demanded immediate (...)
After the killing of Professor Saba Dashtyari, a renowned scholar of Balochistan, a question commonly asked by the people is: What is the latest score in Balochistan? The killings, whether extrajudicial or through target killings, have become so common that not one day passes when one or two (...)
The national mainstream press, both print and electronic, unjustifiably make all out attempts to declare Sardars and the so-called Sardari System as the root cause of the grave problems facing the resource-rich Baloch province. Astonishingly, both forms of the media by no means take Islamabad (...)
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