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.