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01.07.2010
A letter to Ban Ki Moon on deteriorating Human Rights situation in Occupied Balochistan
Ban Ki-MoonSecretary- General United Nations OrganizationUnited Nations Secretariat New York, NY 10017-3515 Subject: Deteriorating human rights situation in Pakistan and Iranian controlled BalochistanDear Secretary General,On the occasion of International Day against Torture in support of victims of torture on 26 June, we would like to draw your kind attention towards the inhuman treatment of the Baloch by the Iranian and Pakistani security agencies. Baloch are facing the cruelest state oppression in the contemporary history. Cultural, social, historical, economical and political marginalization by both states is the hallmark of the subjugation of the Baloch. The Baloch have been resisting s... details >>
21.04.2010
Letter from Balochistan to Hillary Clinton
April 20, 2010
http://thebaluch.com/042010_appeal.php
Letter from Balochistan to Hillary Clinton
April 20, 2010Secretary of State Hillary ClintonU.S. Department of State2201 C Street NWWashington, DC 20520
Madam Secretary,Norway is a summer shy of an anniversary. In August 2009 Norwegian citizen Ehsan Arjemandi, my friend Mohammad Moosa Arjemandi’s younger brother, was plucked from a bus en route to Karachi and disappeared into Pakistan's 1970s Argentine-style security system. Witnesses on the bus from which he was removed have described his abduction to local police. A FIR (first information report) has been filed. A well-known Pakistani lawyer was retained. The Norwegian g... details >>
01.11.2009
Employment for Baloch
RASHID ORAKZAI, QUETTA
Why are the people of Balochistan just offered false promises of better future, while they continue to be denied their share of employment in state owned corporations like PIA, Pakistan Steel Mills, Gwadar Port, and Railway etc? The national airline has just hired another batch of over 60 cadet pilots. Candidates submitting domiciles from rural/interior Sindh were probed to verify their authenticity, while those who have never lived, neither studied, nor own any property in Balochistan and submitted bogus Balochistan domicile were accommodated. Why this duality of standards? Do the people of Balochistan not deserve justice or are those in authority so biased that they... details >>
26.08.2009
Writ of the state
RASHID ORAKZAI, QUETTA
Is the writ of state, with all its fury and thunder, confined to be imposed on the unfortunate people of Balochistan? What was fault of the Baloch if they asked for uniformity in royalties or their own gas to be supplied to people of their province, or their rightful share in allocation of jobs in state owned corporations? Even within Balochistan, jobs in Gwadar are being given to people from adjoining provinces and not to Baloch residents. Even after 63 years, Balochistan’s job allocation share in PIA, WAPDA, Ports Authority, Railways, etc continues to be usurped by others with falsified documents. However when it comes to delivering sugar hoarded by mill owners and ... details >>
18.01.2009
Wake-up call for Americans
A REPORT (12 Jan) states that the US is losing the ‘war for hearts and minds’ of Muslims. Having seen the unending killing of hundreds of innocent Palestinians, mostly children and women, and attacks from air, sea and ground on 1.5 million Gazans in an area of just 362 sqkm, one wonders if America or Israel can ever think of winning the hearts and minds of Muslims.The silence of Muslim leaders is also a testimony against them at this historic moment. The role of western media, especially CNN, the BBC, Fox News, Washington Post and New York Times, has exposed the double standards and a clear inclination towards Israeli propaganda.Switch on to CNN and the BBC and they compare killings of... details >>
26.11.2008
Baluch condemn Pakistan Resolution
American friends of Balochistan
--A voice for peace in southwest Asia
Nov. 25, 2008
The Honorable Madam Hillary Rodham Clinton
U.S. Senator and nominated Secretary of State
476 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington DC 20510
Subject: Advance alert Baluch condemn Pakistan Resolution
Honorable Madam Clinton:
Congrats. I am delighted you will be the new face of the United States to the world—a beautiful face, a warm heart and a sharp mind.
I just received a letter of appreciation from your friend the honorable Senator Barbara Mikluski for copying her in a letter I wrote to you about Baluchistan recently.
In addition, I am in touch with the offices of other leading U.S. senators an... details >>
20.07.2008
Open Letter to Obama, Hagel, Reed
By Ahmar MustikhanWASHINGTON D.C.: I am pretty sure as you landed in Afghanistan Saturday and met with U.S. and International Security Assistance Force commanders, and Afghan officials, you gained insight of the deadly game Pakistan is playing in the blood-weary region.It's very sad Pakistan, which officially says it was founded in the name of Islam, is using the same religion to foment killings and terrorism inside Afghanistan.Pakistan is bent upon turning Afghanistan into a bloody nightmare for President Hamid Karzai's government and the International Security Assistance Force under the command of General David McKiernan.For the rest of the world, the success of General McKiernan's mission... details >>
12.07.2008
Open letter to Senator Barack Obama for change in U.S. foreign policy.
Balochs, all over the world, are watching your promises of,"CHANGE" in U.S. policy, which we expect a just change as regards the question of "ethnic minority" groups of Iran and Pakistan and elsewhere. As regards Baluchistan, Iran occupied a western zone in 1932 and Pakistan occupied it in 1948.
The change in your foreign policy shall give freedom to Balochistan like France and other European countries by defeating the Hitler of Nazi Germany. Fall of Berlin wall is the other example for the emancipation of dozen of States in Central Asia and in East Europe, leaving the recent example of Balkanization of Yugoslavia, which if it was not dissolved, was a great thr... details >>
24.05.2008
Use of Sui gas
IT is very annoying to note that Balochistan, the major producer of gas in the country, is deprived of gas.Gas was first discovered in Sui (the subdistrict of Dera Bugti) in 1953 and it was initially supplied to Punjab in 1962, but surprisingly Quetta, the capital of Balochistan, received Sui gas in 1986 and Dera Bugti in the 1990s.Although Sui accounts for 40 per cent of Pakistan’s gas production, Balochistan receives only two per cent of it and the remaining 38 per cent goes to Punjab.According to an estimate, every year the federal government earns Rs90 billion from Sui gas, out of which Balochistan receives Rs4 billion as royalty.Moreover, out of 28 districts in the province, onl... details >>
24.04.2008
Baloch grievances
APROOS of Shehar Bano Khan’s article, ‘The displaced Baloch’ (April 6), regarding the atrocities committed in Balochistan, I agree with the writer that Balochistan has remained a victimised province.If one takes a glance at the 60-year history of Pakistan, one comes to know that the Baloch have not been allowed by the establishment to use their own resources.Since the inception of Pakistan, they have been enduring atrocities at the hands of the establishment, sometimes in the form of operations launched in 1948, 1958, 1963, 1973, 2005 and the one still going on in the area of Dera Bugti and Kohlu which already have done considerable damage.According to an estimate, 20,000 Baloch have been di... details >>
08.04.2008
Justice denied to the Baloch
IT is very sad to see the former chief minister of Balochistan, Sardar Akhtar Mengal, being treated in a draconian manner. It has almost been two years since he was arrested on a charge of detaining two personnel of the Military Intelligence who were harassing his children on their way to school.Akhtar Mengal did what probably any father would do to protect his children and had held the men to inquire as to why they were following his children. This act was seen as something so terrible that the ATC awarded 45 years’ imprisonment to the two bodyguards of Akhtar Mengal.His trial has not even begun despite being in jail for almost two years although, according to my knowledge, cases in... details >>
26.08.2007
Balochistan and other oppressed nationalities case in British Parliament
http://www.balochpeople.org/eng/2007/pressRel/BPP_In_British_Parliament.htm
<http://www.balochpeople.org/eng/2007/pressRel/BPP_LogoTra.gif> بلوچستانءِ اُستمانءِ گــَل Balochistan People's Party
حزب مردم بلوچستان ... details >>
26.08.2007
Message of gallant Baloch Warrior, Nawab Akbar Bugti
Message of gallant Baloch Warrior, Nawab Akbar Bugti
There comes a cry, like a thunder`s soundLike thousands swords..... Striking around,The Sound echoed, in the Towns aroundIn the valleys, Mountains and Villages around.
Lo!! The black clouds are lowering downon Sindh & Baluchistan`s plains and Towns,Listen!! Roaring guides of Nawab Akbar Bugti Khan
Sindh & Balochistan`s.............. Crown and Lion
"Oh Sindh-o-Balochistan, Seistan-O-KhorasanThe land, the rivers, the coast of Makran,The men, women and the children of my beloved landWho will be the Protector of Sindh & Balochistan?"
Be firm, conscious and struggle ... details >>
25.08.2007
Nawab Sahib was a national leader
Dear friends,
August 27, 2006
I start my mail with bitter sadness and our helplessness to see our greatest of all Baloch leader statesmen, father of all Baloch freedom fighters, The Great Nawab Mohammed Akbar Khan has embraced Shadeth who as promised when he left his home said I prefer death while defending Baloch rights in battle field then to lay dying in bed.
We Baloch swear by the name of almighty Allah that Baloch struggles lights lit by Nawab will continue and its flames will burn down all the chains of slavery in Balochistan I regret that I was not there when the enemy attacked and killed him even though we decided that we shall meet some where soon in Balochistan.
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25.08.2007
The Dream Of Shaheed Nawab Akbar Bugti Lives On
By Juma Baloch
26th August 2006 was a day of big loss for the Baloch nation. We lost the father figure of our nation Shaheed-e-Wattan Nawab Akbar Bugti. With every tragedy that falls on a nation, it either brings it together or shatters it apart. The shahadat of Nawab Akbar Bugti brought the Baloch nation together. The fury of the Baloch nation could be seen in the streets from Karachi to Quetta. This is what living nations are made of.
On the murder of Shaheed Akbar Bugti, the occupying Pakistani forces and their puppet government in Balochistan with all their propagating machinery declared the end off insurgency of the Baloch nation. One year have passed since the shahad... details >>
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