Eight Pakistani soldiers killed in an ambush by Baloch fighters

 2013-12-08

By Archen Baloch

Balochistan - Eight Pakistani security personnel have been reportedly killed in an ambush by Baloch freedom fighters in Katrenz area of Mand, Balochistan on Sunday.

According to details the social media sources and local sources reported that Baloch freedom fighter, also known as the Sarmachars, have ambushed a convoy of Pakistani security forces when it was when passing through Katrenz mountainous area of Mand town.

At least two vehicles have been completely destroyed in the attack and more than 8 personnel have reportedly died and several others have been wounded.

Meanwhile the Baloch Liberation Front (BLF) claimed in a statement to media that it has carried out the attacks on occupying forces.

The BLF spokesperson Gwahram Baloch vowed to continue such attack against Pakistani forces until their complete withdraws from Balochistan.

The spokesperson of Pakistan army confirmed the rocket attacks on a convoy of security forces in a statement to Pakistani media but denied any casualties.

Separately, local sources reported a barrage of rocket attacks on Mashkel town by Iranian Army on the arbitrary border between Pakistan and Iran.

No fatalities have been reported until the filing of this report.

However, People living on the border areas are highly apprehensive of the tense situation and lamented that both Pakistan and Iran have closed the border entrance points for local traders.

Last month an armed resistance organization Jash al Adal (Army of Justice) carried out a fatal attack on Iranian forces killing at least 16 personnel of Iranian revolutionary guards and abducting 4 others.

In response to the attack the Iranian guards hanged 16 Baloch political prisoners in ‘revenge execution’ in central prison of Zahedan.

The Jash al Adal on 4 December carried out another attack in ‘Kuhag Askan’ region of Saravan Iranian occupied Balochistan and claimed to have killed 30 Iranian soldiers.

Three members of the Jash namely Ziayee, Abdul Malik Mollazada and Neyamatullah Tohidi also died in the gun battle between Iranian forces and Sunni Baloch rebels.

The Jash claimed the attack was on response to the killing of ‘innocent Baloch prisoners’ by Iran in Zahedan.

Since then Iranian forces have carried out several attacks on towns and villages situated along the arbitrary borders between Iran and Pakistan occupied Balochistan, a social media activist Banuk Noori Baloch told this scribe.

She said that people living on the bordering areas are suffering from economic hardship as theirs only source of income is the import and export of good from both sides of the border. Given the tense situation and insecurity, she said the unemployment is on rise.

Pakistani forces abducted Teenage Baloch student from Quetta

By Archen Baloch 2013-12-03

 Quetta :  The state security agencies abducted a 19 years old student from Satellite Town area of Quetta on Tuesday.

According to information 33 vehicles of Pakistan security forces with cordoned off the entire Baloch hotel midnight and searched all the room forcing students to stay out.

The forces abducted Mehrab s/o Shoukat Baloch. He is a resident of Kalatuk village Kech district of Balochistan.

According to report, Mehrab Baloch was abducted after confirming his identity. A close family member told this scribe: “They started beating him up inhumanly in front of 50 fellow students before taking him to an unknown place.”

His family said that he had no affiliation with any political party.

In order to continue his study he came to Quetta and started preparing for University admission two months ago at Baloch Hostel of Balochistan University Campus after finishing his study at Turbat BRC College.

Yesterday Pakistan security forces abducted Asghar Baloch an activist of the Baloch Republican Party from Gokdan area of Thump Balochistan.

Sources said Asghar Baloch was on his way back home to Thump from Turbat when Pakistani forces seized him and took him to an unknown location.

It is noteworthy to mention here that students are worst victims of state's repressive policy of "abduct, kill and dump across Balochistan, so far more than 18000 Baloch activists have been extra-judicially abducted, among them more than 1500 have been killed and dumped in desolate areas.

BLA releases two Levis personnel unharmed and urges Arab states to support Baloch struggle

2013-11-28 

By Archen Baloch

Kharan  - The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) in a statement said on Thursday that it has released two Levis personnel unharmed from Kharan, Balochistan.

According to sources a spokesperson of the BLA informed media persons from an undisclosed location that the Organisation has released the tow Levis personnel, namely Riyaz and Allah Dad after a thorough investigation finding them not involved in any sort of anti Baloch activities.

The BLA spokesman, Jiyand Baloch’ also accepted the responsibility for an attack on Panjgur airport radar system that had extensively damaged it.

Spokesperson said: “The seizure of the vehicle of Sheikh Khalifa Gaib in Kharan last month was a brief political to the Arab dignitaries on behalf of Baloch liberation movement that we are in a state of war against Pakistan hence the Arabs should refrain from coming to Balochistan, especially with permission of Pakistani state.”

He added: “Our Arabs neighbours should also refrain from kind of capital investment with Pakistan in Balochistan as historically Baloch nation has nothing in common with Pakistan, adding that Baloch nation regards Pakistan as a colonial state and it has forcefully occupied Balochistan.”

The spokesperson of BLA revealed Pakistani security forces want to physically harm the Arab dignitaries and Arab nationals in Balochistan and blame it on Baloch resistance organizations in an attempt to defame the Baloch freedom struggle.

He said since Baloch are in a state of war from past many years that’s why it is not possible for them and resistance organizations to provide security to the Arab sheiks and nationals.

“We urge the Arab sheiks not to visit Balochistan until Balochistan’s issue is resolved and Baloch nation regains their sovereignty,” said Mr Baloch.

The spokesperson of BLA citing the centuries old historical relationship between the two brotherly nations Arab and Baloch said that Baloch nations have always had good relations with the Arabs.

The Baloch will establish cordial relations with their neighboring Arab states after liberation of Balochistan provided they recognise Balochistan as an illegally occupied territory by Pakistan and they extend their political, moral and diplomatic support to Baloch freedom struggle.

Voice for Baloch Missing Persons Long March and Baloch struggle for national liberation

2013-11-22

Archen Baloch Twenty relatives of enforced-disappeared Baloch started a 750km long march on 27 October 2013 from Quetta to Karachi. The purpose of the march was to protest the adamancy of the Pakistani state policy that refuses to produce the missing persons before the courts to give them the opportunity to defend themselves. This long march culminated in Karachi yesterday after travelling 27 days long journey passing through some of the most difficult terrains of Balochistan. As the March entered Karachi people have greeted them in thousands and showered them with flowers. On its final day the foot march walked from Mawach Goth to Karachi Press Club and were joined by 20,000 people, most Sindhi and Baloch activists. Mama Qadeer Baloch, Farzana Majeed and Bibi Gul Baloch led the caravn of the families of the missing person to Karachi. The walked with blistered feet but with dedication and conviction. Addressing the crowd and media person Qadeer Baloch and other vowed to continue the struggle for peace and justice and said that he would not hesitate to raise the voice of the Baloch missing persons even if he and his colleagues had to travel to Islamabad or knock the door of UN headquarters or seek support from Commonwealth. Pakistani media turned a blind eye to the 750km long march of the Voice for Baloch Missing Persons. However, Baloch Social Media Activists (BSMA) started a twitter campaign using hashtag #VBMLongMarch to galvanize the international media attention towards enforced disappearances at the hands of security agencies. Pakistani media apathy towards Baloch missing persons reinforced the impression that there is a tacit agreement between Pakistani army and media regarding “abduct, kill and dump policy” of Baloch political activists. More than 18000 Baloch political activists have been abducted by Pakistan agencies across Balochistan. Out of them more than 1500 mutilated dead bodies have been found in desolate areas, the dead bodies of the victims bore inhuman torture marks including severed body parts. Current Baloch insurgency is the continuation of the several previous attempts of Baloch people to regain their independence dating back to day one when Pakistan forcefully occupied and annexed sovereign Baloch on 27th March 1948 against the will of Baloch people in the name shared religion. Indeed, In order to stop the general public from participating in the freedom struggle, Pakistani armed forces started unwarranted arrest of political workers from every walk of life including lawyers, doctors, teachers, journalists and among them the students borne the brunt of this savagery. As was writing this article, I have been informed that a mutilated dead body was found in Herronk of Kech District he was identified as Rehmat Pindok. He was reportedly abducted yesterday from Hoshab area of the same district. Last September a UN working group briefly visited Balochistan under Pakistani restrictions and met few family members of the missing persons but the group was confined to Quetta only. Most recently the victims of the devastating earthquake were left at the mercy of Pakistan army and UN and other international aid agencies were not allowed to help them. Balochistan is totally off- limit to International media as well. Local journalists are working in extremely dangerous conditions. Many Baloch journalists have been disappeared and killed while on line of duty. Pakistan has developed distorting narrative regarding Baloch and Balochistan crisis. The information about Baloch demand and insurgency fed to international media from Islamabad bottleneck are extremely distorting. An article from Islamabad posted in Miami Herald described Baloch insurgency in its second paragraph as: “Pakistani authorities battle a separatist insurgency in Baluchistan, heartland of the country's ethnic Baluch minority.” The ninth paragraph of the same article read: “Baluch nationalists have been waging a low-level insurgency for decades, demanding greater autonomy and a larger share of Baluchistan's natural resources.” These two paragraphs are evidently self-contradicting because even if the Baloch freedom fighters are described as separatists, then why would they demand greater share in resources? This contradiction also shows that even the international media based in Islamabad are forced to follow the false narrative of Pakistan army regarding Balochistan crisis. The international media should either visit Baloch to know the true aspirations of Baloch people and the Baloch national struggle for liberation or they must at least contact the true representative of Baloch freedom struggle living abroad to report facts about Balochistan. The world and international media must know that Balochistan is an occupied territory and Baloch are struggling to regain their independence. http://balochwarna.com/features/articles.108/Voice-for-Baloch-Missing-Persons-Long-March-and-Baloch-struggle-for-national-liberation.html#.UpAZrJOYE7U.facebook The writer is a freelancer, human rights and social media activist. He blogs at: http://www.archenspeaks.blogspot.co.ukand tweets at twitter.com/ArchenBaloch.

The Caravan of the Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP) Reached Gaddani Town of Balochistan

Archen Baloch 11/19/13

 Balochistan Quetta - The Caravan of  the Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP), led by Mama Qadeer and Sister Farzana Majeed with their blistering feet, has reached at Adam Kund near coastal Town of Gaddani famous for ship breaking and Marble industries, reported Cheraag Baloch a social media activist closely observing the long march  which begun on 27^th September 2013 from Quetta Press Club.  

At Guddani Turning Point, he said the local people have managed to receive the long march participants with a large number of local people.

According to schedule, Cheraag told me that when the Caravan of the missing persons of (VBMP) reaches Hub City of Balochistan close to Karachi, The Committee of Baloch Students and local people of Hub will receive them with spectacular love and affections.

At the last leg of the 700km long journey, the Committee of Baloch Students will join the long march from Hub City onto Karachi, and on the way at Naval Colony other friends belonging from various human rights organizations and media will also join the procession of the long march to Karachi Press Club.

It is noteworthy to mention here that VBMP started their journey from Quetta Press Club on Sunday 27^th for a sit-in protest at Karachi Press Club in an effort to attract the attention of international community towards the thousand missing persons of Baloch activists at the hands of FC among them plus 700 activists have been tortured to death so far. And the feat of abduction, kill and dump is still ongoing unabated in Balochistan with no hope in sight.

The killing of Waqar Naseer a Naked Aggression: BSO Azad

By Archen Baloch - 29/10/2013

Quetta - In a statement to Baloch media, the central spokesperson of BSO Azad termed the brutal killing of Waqar Naseer by Pakistan army as a naked aggression. The spokesperson said that Wakar Naseer was traveling from Quetta to Karachi in a passenger bus when intercepted at Wadh check post. The statement said the army shot him dead in broad daylight after unbearable beating as soon as he was taken off the bus after checking the identities of passengers.  Martyred Waqar Naseer is the son of Baloch Republican Party’s President Naseer Ahmed of South Korean chapter.

The statement further said that Pakistan has further intensified its brutalities ‘on the spot form of extra judicial killing, of political activists after continuous abduction and killing.

Regarding the historical long march of Voice for Baloch Missing Persons, the spokesperson said that people were joining the long march en masses wherever it passed the villages and towns on the way to Karachi denoting the defeat of Pakistani colonial rule.

The family members of the enforced missing persons have exhausted all peaceful means of political protests including set-in, protest rallies and hunger strike to highlight Pakistan’s human rights abuses in Balochistan.

Despite of all successful efforts of creating awareness in all international forums and human rights organizations, including the concerns expressed by UN and its working group’s subsequent visit to Balochistan, the international community has failed to take concrete step to deter Pakistan from its crimes against humanity in Balochistan. BSO statement asked UN to put pressure on Pakistan so that it produces the missing persons before the courts.

Encouraged by the criminal silence of international community, the statement said that Pakistan has intensified its criminal acts of Baloch genocide; even the sufferers of earthquake are not spared by Pakistani aggression. 

Pressurising tactics: Security agencies tried to abduct my brother in Quetta: Nasrullah Baloch

2013-10-28
Quetta :  Reported by Archen Baloch Speaking at Quetta press Club, Nasuralla said the secret security agencies abducted his younger brother Samiullah Baloch at Shahwani Road Quetta but luckily he made a successful escape after the agencies car stopped at due to traffic jam. He said: My younger brother was walking on Shawani road in Quetta when the armed men of secret agencies whisked him and put him in their vain but, because of the traffic jam he jumped off the vehicle and escaped from the brutal clutches of the agencies.” He said his brother brutally beaten up while by the security agencies in their car. He warned that government secret agencies will be held responsible for any harm to him or any of his family members during the course of his struggle for the safe recovery of abducted Baloch. He said his brother had nothing to do with his activism for missing persons’ rights. He also said that his younger brother was not affiliated with any political party. The arresting and beating up his brother was a pressure tactic of Pakistani agencies to force him [Nasrullah] to abandon the long march. He made it clear that he will not back down from long march and the intimidating tactics cannot weaken his resolve for the rights of the Baloch people. He informed the press that the long march headed by Mama Qadeer Baloch has crossed Lukpass Mountain and it is well on its way. He said the long journey in support of missing persons set off Sunday from Quetta to protest the illegal abduction and enforced disappearances of Baloch people in Balochistan. “Baloch children and elderly people are participating in the 700km long march,” he said. The long march he said would take around 15 to 20 days to reach to Karachi. He said the government would be held responsible for any ham or displeasing occurrences to any participant of the long march during this humanitarian journey. He added: “Voice for Baloch Missing Persons had asked the government for security arrangement but they did not heed to our request. We are marching all alone.” He told the press that nothing can deter the long march from its journey until it achieves its objective. In reply to a question, he said that no official from government had contacted VBMP in this regards. At the end of the press conference, he appealed the Edhi Foundation to provide an ambulance of doctors and other necessary apparatus to the caravan of Voice for Missing Persons for emergency help.

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Pakistani Punitive Sanctions against Balochistan

20/10/2013

By Archen Baloch 

As if Pakistan made death and destruction were not enough, Mother Nature struck the 6th most powerful quake to Balochistan on Tuesday, 24 September killing almost 1000 people and injuring scores. This merciless earthquake was so powerful that it gave rise to a small island off the Gwadar coast which is reported to be about 200m long, 100m wide and 20m high. According to US Geological Survey the earthquake measured at magnitude 7.7, recording its duration as eight seconds. At a depth of 15 kilometres, it struck at 4:29 pm local time, 60 miles southwest of Khuzdar city in occupied Balochistan.

Pakistan army, consists of Punjabi and Pashtun ethnic, is a red rug to bull in Balochistan. Almost all Baloch resistance organizations have made it loud and clear that they would oppose Pakistan army to carry out relief operation in Balochistan but the military is hell bent to control everything in Balochistan. In the cover of relief operation it has established so far 15 check points in Mashkai alone forcing the locals to carry out the banker and check post construction work in several other areas including Perwar, Meyani Kalat and Bansar of Awaran district.

“Baloch have the capacity to weather this storm, if only Pakistani army intervention is stopped! But I feel we’re lurching in isolation and UN has turned a blind eye to our plight. We need political support, rather than relief aid as Pakistan army has utterly refused to allow aid work to be carried out in Balochistan,” said a political activist on condition of anonymity. More than hundreds relief trucks are stranded in Mangoli and Jebri army camps; army is adamantly refusing them to reach to the needy people. Several vehicles loaded with relief goods, belonging to different NGOs and Baloch Welfare Associations have been confiscated by army. In the name of data registration, youth are specific targets, he said.

Meanwhile, the pro freedom Baloch political and armed organizations have repeatedly said that they would welcome international and local aid agencies to carry out humanitarian relief works in Balochistan with the help of local people. And people also refused to take aid from Pakistani army.

Almost every day Pakistan army conducts unwarranted punitive operation in quake affected areas in Awaran. According to local reports army has forced people to evacuate these areas and established check post and bunker in strategically important locations. As result, people are fleeing the area and seeking refuge in neighbouring districts. The helpless condition isn’t the only reason that has forced people to flee the area, the arrest and harassment of people by army is a daily routine in Awaran district. Pakistan army has abducted more than 16000 political activists, Journalists, educators, doctors. Out of them 1500 activists have been tortured to death and thrown in ditches across Balochistan since 2011, despite repeated protest and concerns raised by international human rights organizations, Pakistan refused to acknowledge the disappearances and the killing of the political activists. Pakistan’s apex court so far conducted more than 80 hearings of the enforced missing persons, but it failed to convict the culprits.

The fact is that Pakistan is afraid of the exposure of Balochistan landscape to international media, where it has contained Baloch society into abject poverty for 67 years.

Given the media blackout and restrictions, Balochistan is off limited for international media and aid agencies. Oxfam and UN have a better understanding of the situation in Balochistan regarding Pakistani sanctions over Balochistan.
Pakistan has imposed such a steel coated media blackout in Balochistan that it has made it virtually impossible for world community to peek into Baluchistan’s inner parts where its army has wreaked havoc and forced Balochistan to meet human catastrophe. Pakistani Urdu and English media, Instead of covering the devastation, acting on the line of state containment policy of Baloch nation, seem to have embarked upon two types of campaign against Baloch resistances forces, Urdu media with the task of a psychological war frightening people of the God punishment – implying that Pakistan is a mystical entity, if you go against it, it invokes the ferocity of the divine in the form of Quake. And English media with specific guidelines and narratives has been assigned the responsibility to portray Baloch resistance as a terrorism menace associated with religious outfits to frighten international aid agencies and media from coming to Balochistan.

All entrance ways into Awaran have been bottlenecked with new check posts, where Baloch parties and relief givers are forced to go through harsh scrutiny. But Jumaet-e Dawa, JuD and other religious organizations, including the pro Pakistan pocket parties are at their leisure to distribute propaganda leaflets inscribed with Islamic teachings – asking to people have faith in God!

When the quake gave rise to a mini Island off the Gwardar coast, we saw Pakistani media was quick to call it a tourist spot and Pakistan Navy took over the guard, hoisted Pakistani flag, and declared it an off-limited zone for local fishermen. NASA also captured its photo and posted it in its site, but failed to present the extent of the devastation in photographic details in Awaran and Kech districts. The geographical location and its vast mineral resources at the juncture of three important regions in Asia have marked Balochistan as an important land on this earth!

The pillage of Baloch mineral resources including Natural Gas in Sui and Dera Bugti, Cold and Copper reservoirs in Chagai, Marine products of Baloch Sea is not limited to Pakistani itself; it has also involved Chinese Dragon to suck the Baloch blood. The Saindak copper and cold project and Kashgar-Gwadar economic corridor have underscored the Pak-Chinese predatory collusion in Balochistan.

Pakistan conducted nuclear tests in Chagai – Balochistan – on 28, May 1998 against the will of Baloch nation. The blasts have devastating impacts on local people and wildlife in the Chagai and its surrounding areas. The international scientists and investigators have not so far visit the site to gauge the effects of these blasts on people. The international community, especially, the IAEA has neither protested against such inhuman acts of Pakistan nor did they insist on carrying out a survey of the area.

Given Pakistan’s state policy of Baloch punishment, containment and exploitation, it goes without saying that Baloch are facing undeclared Pakistani state imposed political and economic sanctions right under the nose of 21st century’s ‘enlightened world’.

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Pak Army kills Two common Baloch in Sui

Archen Baloch  7/9/2013

 Occupied Balochistan,  Sui -   Local Media in Sui reported that Pakistan army with the help of a state sponsored local death squad, called Aman force,  has shot to dead Ali Khan s/o Samand Khan Bugti and Gazzo  s/o Shoukat Ali Bugti, during a an unwarranted search operation in Yaropat of Sui district, Balochistan.  

Both were common peasants in Yaropat killed by the occupying forces without any known reason. 

It has now routinely become a common practice of the Pakistani security forces to shoot to kill unarmed people without any judicial accountability to courts or public all over Balochistan. After all, it is Islamic Republic of Pakistan and what good a common Baloch can expect from it, but death and destruction? 

Heavy Attacks on Pakistan Armed forces in Sui, Gen Kaya Escaped Unhurt

By Archen Baloch 6/9/2013

 Occupied Balochistan- Sui, According to reports Gen Kayani on Friday visited Sui Military garrison in Balochistan where most of the gas wells are situated and piped directly to Punjab. But, as Sangar Media reported that the Sarmachars, the Freedom fighters, have welcomed him with heavy rocket attacks on the camp he visited.

General Pervis Ashraf Gayani, a Punjabi general hails from dominant Punjab and is the chief of Pakistani armed forces is on a mission to boast the morale of his armed forces, predominantly consist of Punjabis, in Balochistan where Baloch resisting armed organizations are constantly attacking his weary forces in a guerilla warfare that has sapped them of their will of fight.

General Kayani was programed to stay in the camp until evening, but he had to abort his stay because of the attacks on the camp and the escorting helicopters, local media reported the continuation of heavy exchange of firing from both sides as I compiled this report.

Until  now no armed organization accepted the responsibility of these attacks, but it is widely believed that Baloch Republic Army, an armed organization seeking to liberate Balochistan from Pakistani occupation,  could be the force behind these attacks as it is highly active in that area attacking state installations and gas pipelines running to Punjab and other provinces of Pakistan.   

Just two days back, before visiting his troops in Balochistan, Gen Kayani visited forward positions along the tense Line of Control (LoC), which divides Kashmir between India and Pakistan.

It is worth mentioning here that Pakistan is facing a guerilla war in the terrain of Balochistan and it has greatly limited her forces within the camps. But Pakistani media in Balochistan greatly shuns the events of the war that have international bearing.

Journalist Haji Abdul Razzaq, the Latest Victim of Baloch Genocide in Pakistan

By Archen Baloch 

   

  I didn't believe they would kill Baloch Journalist, Haji Abdul Razzaq who was arrested on March 24, 2013 in Karachi by Pakistani secret agency ISI and today Baloch media reported his mutilated dead body was found in Surjani area of Karachi along with another Baloch labour, Patan Bugti.Based on two assumptions I thought that firstly, his abduction has been well reported in international media and in international human right organizations and secondly, the newly ‘elected democratic’ government of Nawaz Sharif in Islamabad would at least spare the lives of Journalists in Balochistan. Unfortunately, I was wrong on both assumptions. It shows that Pakistan gives a tinker’s damn about what the international human rights organizations say and international media reports.

It goes without saying that Baloch Journalism is too hard to be digested by Pakistani state because, it refused to promote jihadi concepts and rather it sought to adhere to the truth and Razzaq was one of those Baloch Journalists who promoted secular values and Human Rights through his journalism and as a political activist. Dailytawar.com was his only media platform through which he could reach to the general public and wider world community.

After 11 days of his arrest, Dailytawar.com in the form of Paper vanished from the streets of Balochistan’s cities and villages and went offline from net service since the day when its head office in Karachi was rampaged by Pakistani security forces in the early hours of Saturday on 6th April, 2013.

None of Pakistan’s so called mainstream media outlet protested against the attack on Daily Tawar’s office and burning its entire archive, but again, just for international media consumption, they often raise their concerns about the media freedom and of course about the welfare of Journalists in Pakistan too.

Daily Tawar did not stop its publication just because of security threat its reporters and writers received, but because of the state’s systematic clampdown on the paper, which made it utterly impossible for it to reach to general public, from printers to transporters from street hawkers to bookshops all were prevented from cooperating with it. And an online ban to dailytawar.com is in place to date.

Javid Naseer Rind, Razzaq Gul, Lala Hameed, Ali Sher Kurd, Rahmtulla Shaheen and Ahmed Dad all were arrested by Pakistani security agencies and put to death when they refused to submit to state repression and their mutilated bodies were recovered in desolate areas . All district press clubs and journalist associations across Balochistan have received their fair share of gifts of mutilated dead bodies of reporters with a single massage - How dare you speak the truth??

Naseer Rind Tagrani, subeditor of Daily Tawar based in Hub city of Balochistan lost his life when he was arrested along with Samad Tagrani, a leader of Baloch National Movement. Samad Tagrani too was brutally killed and the bodies of both men were found dumped in Naal area of Khuzdar district.

Noor Ahmed’s only sin was that he reported about military operations from besieged towns of Sui and Dera Buigti where Pakistani’s main energy arteries are situated that carry gas to Pakistan’s dominant province of Punjab and other provinces whereas the owners of the Sui gas fields are still forced carry woods from miles to use for burning their homes.

Siddique Eido, a famous Baloch journalist and human rights activist hailed from Balochistan coastal city of Pasni where Pakistan’s second biggest Naval Base is situated after Karachi. His reporting of military excesses against local fishermen irked ISI. Hence they abducted him and subsequently his mutilated dead body was found near Gwadar zero point.

Entire Khuzdar city of Balochistan has been cleaned of Journalists, Mohmmed Khan Sasoli, one of the most senior Journalists lost his life in a targeted attack by state sponsored death squad when he refused to shut down Khuzdar Press Club even after losing all of journalist colleagues. The brave Baloch Journalist, Saiful Rehman lost his life when he rushed to the site where the deadliest suicidal carnage was inflicted upon Balochistan’s religious minority Shiite Hazara people in Quetta.

In some cases, Pakistani state agencies create a wall of obstacles with false reports against the asylum seeking Baloch Journalists so that their applications for asylum are rejected. Regular contributing journalists like Hafeez Hasanabadi, Shabir Baloch, Salam Sabir and many others were forced to seek refuge abroad as the state security apparatus made their live hell in Balochistan.

Khadim Lehri, the Chief Editor of Daily Tawar went into hiding with his family when he saw that reporters and journalists associated with his paper were being brutally killed by state functionaries. He narrowly escaped abduction and subsequent as he went underground just before his office was ransacked. He fled the death lurking behind him every day as consequences of publishing the Daily Tawar. Once he was summoned by a high ranking official of Pakistan’s secret agencies for a “Mutual Understanding” and a message through him was conveyed to Hafeez Hasanabadi that said he should refrain from writing against Pakistani state policies.

Hafeez Hasanabadi, a senior Baloch journalist, who mostly writes in Urdu but has a good command on Russian, Balochi and Persian languages, has been alleged with blasphemous remarks by religious death squads. The death squads threatened to kill him and harm his family abroad. With such allegations, neither can he freely travel nor can live among his people in Pakistani occupied Balochistan where religious elements, supported by state security agencies, are freely roaming and brandishing fatwa against those who speak against atrocities of Islamic Republic of Pakistan. He and his family have gone in hiding to save their souls.

Baloch resistance to all Pakistani designs, including Gwadar Project, Open Letter to Indian Media

Open Letter to Indian Media 
May 20, 2013 

Archen Baloch 

Sir, I’m a Baloch human rights activist from Balochistan but, because of media blackout, I am unable to present the ugly picture of human rights abuses that Pakistan Army is committing in the Balochistan conflict on a daily basis. Internet service is deliberately filtered and has been throttled to extremely low speed limits where it takes impossibly long times to upload or download a picture or video particularly during elections days or military operations. Media access to Balochistan can be gauged by the facts that during recent Pakistani elections, international observers’ teams were not allowed to visit Balochistan due to the fear that the grim situation of Baloch nation will be exposed to international media glare. Previously, a UN team of human rights was also not allowed to visit Balochistan. All international media outlets are banned to visit Balochistan. During Pakistani elections days no international media was allowed to enter Balochistan to report directly. Pakistani media does not report what the government does not want reported. Baloch nation entirely refused to participate in Pakistani elections, but Pakistani media, as biased as it could be, reported distorted facts about elections results. Actual Pakistani election turnout in Balochistan was 0.5% but Pakistani media, controlled by Islamabad, said it was around 35% to 40%. But, of all, the most serious situation for us is the Gwadar Port control that has been assigned to China against the will of Baloch nation. Internationally we want to say that we’re against Chinese presence on our soil but through what sort of media we can say that? Pakistani media will not risk the wrath of the state. We’re in need of effective media access so that our leaders and intellectuals can present the interests of Balochistan and expose the intrigues Pakistan weaves in the Indian subcontinent against Balochistan and of course, against India too. To oppose and expose Pakistani and Chinese designs about Gwadar in the future, we want Indian electronic media to allow us voice so that we can express our concerns. Baloch resistance to all Pakistani designs, including Gwadar Project in the Indian subcontinent has created the condition whereby we find that our national interests are dependent on each other’s success. The Balochistan conflict is a struggle for freedom for decades without assistance. Pakistan serving the strategic interests of powerful countries in the the Indian subcontinent leaves no one to insist on our rights. Therefore, as a secular people and natural allies in the Indian subcontinent, Baloch nation has high expectations that the great Indian nation would come forward and support Baloch national cause for freedom in real time for moral support. After having consultation with fellow human rights activists, we have identified one of our intellectuals, Hafeez Hasanabadi who can participate in an interview in Hindi language, as he is a well-informed journalist among Baloch intellectual circles. We request Indian media to discontinue their bias and allow us access to present the facts about Balochistan and let the world and Indian nation as well know what the ground situation in Balochistan is! Facts that Pakistani media ignores. Indian media routinely interviews Pakistani journalists and political and Pakistan Army figures, who represent only one side of the situation here in Balochistan and their talk on Balochistan is enforcing silence. We believe that a fair media would strive to give voice to those who are silenced. I am sending this open letter in the hope of stirring the conscience of Indian media and requesting aid to present the massive humanitarian crisis and devastation of the Baloch people wreaked by the Pakistani state. Ongoing attacks on people using massive weapons of war, deprivation of basic needs, radioactive contamination of our soil leading to strange illnesses, silencing of our voice, killing and dumping of our intellectuals and brutal attacks on civilian homes continue to devastate the people of Balochistan on a regular basis.


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Why “Daily Tawar” is singled out For Persecution?

By Archen Baloch The difficulties that the Daily Tawar faced right from the beginning are still persisting but now their intensity has increased to extreme. It was only Journalists who reported and presented the real picture of the society and the death and destruction of the world’s horrific big wars. In its journalistic responsibilities, Daily Tawar has always strived to adhere to the principles of real journalism in the war of justice and unfairness. Despite facing the state sponsored conspiracies and bitter hostilities and having lost some of its exceptional team members, Javid Naseer Rind, Razzaq Gul, Lala Hameed, Ali Sher Kurd, Rahmtulla Shaheen and others, Daily Twar has never wavered in its ten years journey of presenting the truth. Within the parameters of real journalism, Daily Tawar not only refused to become a commercial enterprise, but also it assumed the responsibility of interpreting Baloch aspiration and worked hard to expose the real face of God gifted State of (Pakistan) and its conspiracies against Baloch identity and Balochistan’s integrity. The established role of opposition in political system world over is to effectively check the corruption and wrong doings of the state machinery. The same role of opposition is also established in Pakistani parliamentary system. It not only opposes government’s wrong decisions and misdeeds but also it helps the rulers to see the right way. This was what Daily Tawar did right from the beginning which is supposed to be the role of an opposition party in the political system of a democratic state. If you go through the archives of its ten years issues, you will not be able to find that it has ever indulged in any activity against the state. Rather, you will find that it has played the role of opposition depicting the real face of the state. Nowhere in the world is opposition regarded as a state enemy. But unfortunately, the state has designated daily “Tawar” as a state enemy, which is nothing more than hypocrisy. Daily Tawar kept changing its office in different places because of the heinous criminal threats of abduction and kill its staff members, the reporters, subeditors and proof readers received from different state security agencies. Despite being under tremendous psychological pressure and difficult financial situation, the staff members, the reporters from all over Balochistan never severed their relationship with the Tawar. The state failed to break the strong will of the Tawar because of the editorial’s strong policy of adherence to the parameters of the law. The news items or reports that Tawar publishes are the same items as disseminated from different news agencies to newspapers. As Daily Tawar has no source of its own. The only difference is that it highlights the news items that are specifically related to Baloch and Balochistan. This is the main sin that irked the Pakistan authorities and made them commit atrocities against Journalists working with Tawar. The Baloch journalists are not only harassed but many of them have also been killed after their abduction. When the state failed to suppress Daily Tawar, out of utter desperation, it burned its office and the records and computers were looted in the mid of the night. It all depends on good intention. The opponents of Daily Tawar must realize that Tawar is strongly committed to Baloch Society. It continues its struggle to remain as part of Baloch society and is ready to face any crisis that might come on its way.

The continuous strike of the families of abducted Baloch is being ignored by world media: VBMP

MARCH 23, 2013 · 10:18 PM

Reported by Archen Baloch

Occupied Balochistan: The chairman of the Voice for Baloch Missing Persons, Mr Nasrullah Baloch, told the media on Thursday that extra judicial killings, abduction of Baloch people and throwing their mutilated dead bodies on deserted areas is not a good example of civilized societies.

He said the International Media and Human Rights bodies were ignoring the plight of the Baloch people which is why the rights violations continue in Balochistan unabated.

He said Hakeem Bugti and Sanwal Bugti had been released, but Ali Bugti and Asgar Ali Bugti were still missing. These people were extra abducted by security forces a few days back from Jamshoro area of Hyderabad city in Sindh. He said these people were among the Baloch internally displaced persons (IDPs) who were forced to seek refuge in Sindh in 2006 when Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti was murdered by Pakistani forces.

“Three more people, Sanaulla, Jalil Ahmed and Naseer Ahmed have been arrested from Quetta,” Mr Baloch said, adding that the families including women and children of the disappeared persons have been constantly protesting but nobody listens to them.

He said, “The abduction of Baloch political workers and youth is still continuing unabatedly across Balochistan. The abductors throw the mutilated dead bodies in deserted areas after subjecting them to inhuman torture.”

However, he said, that Supreme Court was constantly putting pressure on the security establishment to stop extra judicial arrests of people and present the abducted people before the court of law. “The security establishment do not need to the orders of the court,” he said.

The Chairman of Voice for Baloch Missing Persons urged the United Nations, International Human Rights Organisations and International Court of Justice to take notice of on-going human rights violations in Balochistan. Mr Nasrullah Baloch said it was the moral duty of UN human rights bodies to take strong action against inhuman practice of enforced disappearances in Balochistan and help Baloch nation to get released their loved ones from the illegal custody of Pakistani security forces.

Throwing of Mutilated Dead Bodies of Enforced Missing Persons isn’t a Good Example of a Civilized Society! VBMP

Archen Baloch   22/03/13

Occupied Balochistan: Quetta- The chairman of the Voice for Baloch Missing Persons Mr Nasrullah Baloch told the media that extra judicial abduction of Baloch people and throwing their mutilated dead bodies on deserted areas isn't a good example of civilized societies!

Informing the media he said Hakeem Bugti and Sanwal Bugti had been released, but Ali Bugti and Asgar Ali Bugti were still missing. These people were extra judicially abducted by security forces a few days back from Jamshoro area of Khaiderabad city of Sindh provice.  He said these people were among those IDPs who were forced to seek refuge in Sindh when Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti embraced Martyrdom.

Three more people, Sanaulla, Jalil Ahmed and Naseer Ahmed have been arrested from Quetta, he informed the media while talking to “Online” he said families, women, children of the missing persons are constantly protesting but nobody listens to them.

“Extra judicial abduction of Baloch political workers and youth is still continuing unabatedly across Balochistan. The abductors throw the mutilated dead bodies in deserted areas after subjecting them to inhuman suffering in torture cells” he said.   

However, he said that Supreme Court was constant putting pressure on the security establishment to stop extra judicial arrest of people and produce them before the courts who’ve been abducted extra judicially by security forces. However, he said security establishment was not heeding to court orders.

Urging the United Nations, International Human Rights Organizations and International Court of Justice, Mr Nasrullah Baloch said “It is the moral duty of UN’s human rights related bodies to take strong steps against inhuman practice of enforced disappearances in Balochistan and help Baloch nation to get released their all love ones from their abductors”.

AN OPEN LETTER TO HAMID MIR (GEO TV)

 March 19, 2013

Translated from Urdu by Archen Baloch

Dear Hamid Mir,

I’m writing you this letter with the hope that perhaps the historians of the next century – standing in the witness box of history – will reveal the truth about the oppressed Baloch nation, hold the colonial powers and occupying rulers of the day accountable and examine the role and discourse of its advocates and intelligentsia. It should not be the case that today’s columnists and intellectuals are restrained by the fear of the ruler or its lust for conquest.

A century ago, British Lord B. Fell said, “We know and understand the history of Egypt far better than the Egyptians do.” Even one hundred and 25 years later these contemptuous words remain on the pages of history. Similarly, the President of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, when in Gadhi Khuda Baksh said, “Baloch should learn politics from us.” His implication was that the Baloch are ignorant, illiterate and unfamiliar with statecraft–born to be slaves. There is only the gap of a century between the words of Lord B. Fell and President Zardari, but the subject and message is the same: the lesson of slavery.

Mr. Hamid Mir, you hold the leading position among contemporary intellectuals belonging to the colonial state’s electronic and print media. Many of the policies of the state are devised and executed with the counsel of your community. But knowledge and consciousness demand to be on the side of truth. Jean-Paul Sartre, who despite being French, supported the Algerian freedom movement against the colonial system with his pen and wrote a golden chapter of history. Like Sartre, Mr. Hamid Mir, you are an intellectual. Yet you not only support the inhumane, immoral and terrorizing conduct of the occupying state in Balochistan, you have also actively advised the state regarding how to eliminate the Baloch freedom fighters and how to perpetuate its occupation over Baloch land. With the intimidation of the younger brother of Shaheed Assad Baloch, Akhar Mengal, you would enable the state to conquer the strong fortress of Baloch by building a Trojan horse out of him. If Akhtar Mengal is intimidated and taken in by you, it would be a master stroke of your molding hand. With the threat of state terrorism, not only have you tried to intimidate him into submission, but you have become a bridge to encourage him to cut a deal with the secret agencies of the state.

You have never regarded the Baloch as a nation and freedom a right of every nation. Is it just to deprive a nation of its freedom through the use of intellectual ploys? Five hundred years ago Nicholas Machiavelli advised a prince that kings and rulers are not bound by any values and permanent morals. If that is just, then why is Machiavelli under critique? Kings and rulers are never incriminated because all court intellectuals are subservient to their respective masters. In order to maintain their stranglehold, they advise their masters and propagate their policies. The struggle of the oppressed is portrayed as wrong and the result of ignorance. Sometimes religion is also utilized to subdue the oppressed. At present the intelligentsia of the Pakistani occupier is doing the same to the Baloch and you are a participant in this oppression.

Mr. Mir Sahib, you claim to be the banner bearer of human rights. When Malala Yousufzai was attacked you were among the first to condemn this inhumane act. Although it is commendable, on December 25, 2012, when Pakistani occupying forces were showering fire and iron from their helicopter gunships at Tank of the Mashkay area, in which 18 innocent women, children and elderly men were killed–among them Bahti was 2 years old and Bibi Mahnaz, 70–all Pakistani intellectuals, including you, were silent.

Is this justice to a man of your intellect? Or is it beneficial to vicious rulers? You decide. Two years ago, Bibi Zamur Baloch and her daughter were martyred by Pakistani beasts in the streets of Karachi. Previously, Pakistani state agents abducted Zarina Marri, along with her infant child Murad, while she was on her way to school in Quetta. On January 21, 2013, in Besima of Kharan district, Pakistani forces, along with the local death squad, broke into a house and martyred a prominent Balochi and Brahvi poet, Qasim Baloch, along with his sister Rozina Baloch. Over such poignant, heart-rending incidents, not a single word comes out of the mouths of Pakistan intellectuals. Perhaps it is because these oppressed people are Baloch.

At present Baloch are fighting a war for their freedom and the blood of this freedom loving nation is cheap. The only way to do justice with their blood is to forget it altogether. Because forgetting is the only way to escape the wrath of the master.

Those are just a few examples among thousands of incidents, mutilated dead bodies of our martyrs and Baloch prisoners that I mentioned herein. Mir Sahib, nations never die. If it were so, then the Israeli nation would have not existed at all. Even after two thousand years of persecution they have their state, although their suppressive treatment of the Palestinians is condemnable. General Dyer is not alive anymore, but the British Prime Minister calls the Jalyanwala Bagh mishap shameful. And your Bangladeshi history is a recent example.

Mir Sahib, it may come to pass that the words of Zardari and Lord B. Fell and your silence will be deemed Machiavellian. Perhaps our great grandchildren, while reading the bitter facts of history after a century, will conclude that today’s enlightenment was not directed against oppression, but utilized to maintain oppression. In any case, it is now a chapter of history that Pakistan’s intellectuals have encouraged the occupying army to control Makuran and Bolan in order to successfully control Balochistan.

Regards,

Dr. Allah Nazar Baloch

March 15, 2013

The so Called Nationalist Parties are forming an Evil Alignment against Baloch Freedom
Movement: BNM

18/12/2012 

By Archen Baloch

Occupied Balochistan Quetta:The central spokesperson of Baloch National Movement has said that occupying state is engaged in a sinister design to align all so called nationalist parties into a front against revolutionary forces of freedom movement. To revive the dead politics of vote and money these Parties have been given the task to spread lethal propaganda against popular freedom movement. Referring to a statement issued by National Party in which it was said that “the Elections are the only way to prevent civil war in Balochistan” the spokesperson said that that statement was the clear proof of National Party that it was collaborating with occupying state.
The spokesperson further said that National Part has now become a propaganda machine for occupying state which has interpreted the resistance movement as a civil war so that the revolutionary freedom
movement does not get the public support which help them to solidify Punjabi rule over Baloch as a slave nation. He said that one cannot reject the fact that it was National Party leadership that took a U turn from revolutionary path of freedom movement by selling the sacred blood of our fallen heroes. They traded the sacred freedom ideology of martyrs
for some privileges of the enemy.
The spokesperson said that BNM continues to oppose those parliamentary parties who have now started lacing themselves for upcoming elections.
He added that a strong public campaign would be launched against Pakistani elections in occupied Balochistan.
He said that Baloch nation is well aware of the real face of these state salaried parties. He urged the workers of the BNM to proactively work for public awareness so that the colonial state and its henchmen are not succeeded in their ill design against freedom struggle of the fallen heroes for an independent of Balochistan.

Pakistan’s new Army doctrine and the Baloch freedom struggle

By Archen Baloch  06/01/2013 The people of Balochistan greeted 2013 with a bloodbath inflicted upon them by Pakistan military offensives on the eve of Christmas day 25th December. In this gory operation more 51 person were reportedly killed with several losses of livestock and properties. Different Baloch organisations having different identities, yet with a shared ideology and purpose - mostly called pro freedom forces – have engaged the occupying Pakistani state in a defensive resistance with sheer determination get rid of Pakistan’s occupation over Balochistan. The main expression of Baloch resistance is reflected in daily incidents occurring at the length and breadth of Balochistan whereby the state writ is totally challenged. The strength of the Baloch resistance can be measured by objective’s popularity among general public where the “Sarmachars” the freedom fighters, draw their sustenance in obscurity. The current Mashkay siege, Balochistan operation by Pakistan army and its brutal use of heavy war machines, including three Jets, seven gunship helicopters and seventy military vehicles is a case in point to gauge the popularity of the movement where no one but Pakistan itself has located the source of support for the freedom fighters. What has gone into the heads of the panic stricken Pakistani military establishment is the very nightmarish realisation that Balochistan has virtually gone out of their immoral control. They realised the fact that without Balochistan, Pakistan would go back to ‘Stone Age’ because the immense geopolitical importance and the vast reservoir of natural resources, that Pakistan has been exploiting without any hindrance so far, has come to a halt. Fire power is no more an only option left for Pakistan to determine the fate of Balochistan. The major credible factor that Pakistan wants to use to take in the international community is a new found doctrine. Whereby the state thinks it might find a solace by posing as a genuine partner willing to work for peace with international community on terrorism. Each and every Pakistani writer and intellectual has tried hard to excel other in performing the feat of offering a best solution to Balochistan crisis how to grapple with the gruesome situation. The GHQ (General Head Quarters) of Pakistan army never listened to anybody for any solution to what they thought was best for Pakistan future: “Kill and dump Policy”. Army considered this inhuman tactic so far the only best policy that Pakistani generals pursued to deter Baloch insurgency until Najam Sethi doctrine of Isolationism came in picture on Feb 21, 2012. His guideline changed entire Pakistan army security doctrine and took a paradigm shift from east to west regarding Baloch insurgency. Najam Sethi is one among most prominent Pakistani pro-establishment Journalists. He visited Balochistan as part of ‘London Group’ in 70s and is well-aware of the nature of Baloch resistance. In his famous TV program, Apas ki Baat, the solution he suggested is quell or even crush the Baloch liberation struggle was as follows: - Isolate “the Baloch insurgents living abroad” by adopting a strategy of carrot and stick. Show them carrot or olive branch by announcing general amnesty and stack does not work unless Push factor of foreign support is in place. Put an end to national security state and stop the proxy war against India, America and Afghanistan. Sethi thinks they are the ones who are assisting Baloch insurgency. He suggests to the military establishment, when you establish good relations with them [the above name countries] and stop supporting the Taliban then the will also stop supporting “Baloch insurgents”. Unless Pakistan’s security establishment struck a peace agreement on East and West borders, there will be no peace in Pakistan and Balochistan crisis will not be resolved, Sethi believes. The same was also conveyed to India by Pakistan’s foot in mouth interior minister Rehman Malik while talking on alleged Indian interference in Balochistan he said, “We have non-state actors, you have non-state actors, so that we find a way forward.’’ He was attempting to imply that Pakistan was ready to lend her support in peace process if only Baloch are not abetted by neighbouring India. Then a follow up visit took place by retired Gen Talat Masood, an expert in defence studies. He was sent to convince the Indian intellectual societies against growing support for Baloch freedom movement. According to Masood, “Pakistan expects that with improvement in relations, India would cease supporting the insurgency in Baluchistan. In future, both India and Pakistan could play a constructive role in Afghanistan. They could cooperate in reconstruction activity and promote regional integration.” It must also be put on record that Baloch people have always rejected Pakistani’s allegations of foreign support to Baloch liberation struggle. Pakistan on its part has also failed to provide a single shred of evidence to back her claims. It can easily be said that allegation against Afghanistan, India and United States as fabricated as they are against Baloch freedom movement. In other words Pakistan is trying blackmail the aforementioned countries to accept her hegemony and continue to support her ignoring that fact when she breeds religious extremist from its Madrisas (religious school) and sends them to West to blow up buildings, busses and train stations in India and Western capitals. Exactly the same policy is being pursued by Pakistani security establishment, particularly about the Taliban issue with Afghanistan. Pakistan agreed to support a negotiated settlement of Afghan crisis. As a sign of good will gesture Pakistan started releasing the Taliban leaders from her detentions. Pakistan recently received a $688 million tranche from US as Coalition Support Fund on December, 28 last year. This amount was given to Pakistan to support the war against Taliban and Al Qaeda terrorists; and expect to receive more as reward for the support to a negotiated settlement of Afghan crisis. “Pakistan is working with the United States to facilitate an Afghan-owned and -led reconciliation process,” Dawn News quoted Sherry Rehman, Pakistan’s ambassador to United States. Now in the scheme of things it seems that a concerted military and diplomatic milieu is in place to contain the freedom movement with a new doctrine of peace with neighbours - to crush the Baloch freedom struggle in isolation. I would rather call it Najam Sethi’s Doctrine. No wonder internally Pakistani writ has melted away in Balochistan. The very fact that International media and impartial observers are not being allowed to assess the situation in Balochistan registers the case in favour of Baloch freedom loving forces’ argument. They say they have psychologically defeated the state forces employed in on Baloch soil and the morally defeated Pakistan is now taking her anger at innocent civilian and non-combats of Balochistan. The fifth phase of Baloch resistance started almost eleven years ago, and it has achieved tremendous success both at home and abroad. During the course of these eleven years struggle, Baloch have successfully navigated their ship of freedom struggle in the unchartered waters amidst compromises of interests’ of world powers in the region where Baloch homeland is situated. The Baloch national struggle for freedom has also gained a solid ground in the form of popularity in general public and in international media after offering tremendous sacrifices. Peace is what that Pakistani state is interested in Balochistan the most at any cost, its Chief Justice ordered state officials to use every mean to bring peace in Balochistan during seventy one hearings on missing persons cases. But, it is on record; so far not a single culprit has been arrested in the cases of mutilated dead bodies of Baloch political workers, found dumped on roadsides and desolated areas in Balochistan. Even though the Chief Justice has gone on record and said that Pakistani state security apparatus are involved in human rights abuses in Balochistan. Last but not least, an addition filthy feature of containing Baloch struggle is the sectarian violence that Pakistan has introduced in the concerted atmosphere of Baloch restraint policy to smear the secular feature of Baloch nationalism. Pakistan’s military intelligence is trying hard to characterise it into a mixture of insurgency and sectarian violence by killing innocent Shia (Hazaras) and kidnapping the Hindu merchants communities in Quetta and other parts of Balochistan and Pakistani media is also at best in supporting such policy that help Pakistan to obscure Baloch secular forces. So far Pakistan has successfully prevented international media and human rights organisations from visiting Balochistan to assess the on ground realities. However, on Sept 10th last year, a high powered seven member’s delegation the UN Working Groups on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) made a country visit to Pakistan with a limited access to Balochistan to assess the human rights situation there. As usual, to hoodwink the UN delegation, the state started to use its entire tools to create the impression that Balochistan crisis was an internal matter and that it could be managed by internal efforts. Given its so called judicial activism, the smokescreen of Supreme Court’s concerts in Baloch missing person’s cases was used to prevent United Nations from taking a pragmatic step against human rights violations. The impression was created that Baloch are satisfied with Pakistani federation and its judicial system for delivering justice to them. It is not the case that Baloch did not explore the democratic or peaceful mean of struggle. Yes they did, but the opposite not only did not listen to them but always pushed them against the wall by accusing them as being foreign agents. The peace in term of security took a new meaning in the mind of Baloch leadership when they felt that their national identity and resources are unsecured within Pakistani compressed federation as they had already exhausted all their options seeking democratic solution within Pakistani federation. In 1991 when Nawaz sharif was about to resume his second term of office in Islamabad, two full mandated leaders, Nawab Akbar Khan Bugi and Sardar Atuallah Khan Mengal did their Yatra (visit) to Islamabad with a good will gesture, their aim to find a permanent solution to Balochistan’s chronicle conflict with Islamabad. The then political workers, now the leaders, were hoping that Punjabi leadership would recognise that gesture and a new social contract would be agreed upon within Pakistani federation. Pakistani rulers disappointed the aforementioned Baloch leaders and they came home empty handed. Later we learned that Punjabi military Junta had no trust in Baloch leadership which has been a clear policy of Pakistan since the occupation of Balochistan. Pakistan wants to loot and plunder Balochistan’s natural resources and keep the people of Balochistan backward and enslaved. Punjabi establishment wants Baloch land minus Baloch people. The Baloch youth have harsh memories of Pakistan’s brutalities against their elders and families. They have learned bitter lesson including not trusting Pakistan at any cost. The question is that why the Baloch should waste their time, energy and political resources in convincing and entreating the Punjabi generals and politicians. Why should they ask an undemocratic and artificial state to respect democracy and recognise the Baloch people’s ownership their resources? They will prefer to go for the bigger achievement which worth every effort and struggle and worth dying for – that is a free united and democratic Balochistan. The new Baloch generation is not welling to abdicate their ancestral rights of being the sole sovereign rulers of their own homeland Balochistan. They want to breathe in new air of freedom as they have started to smell the fragrance of it. They want to see a new dawn and they have already started to see the light after dawn. The Baloch are adamant to continue their struggle for freedom because they have nothing to lose but the shackles of slavery and the bondage of occupation.  http://balochwarna.com/features/articles.65/Pakistan%E2%80%99s-new-Army-doctrine-and-the-Baloch-freedom-struggle.html