Some Balochis support sardari, others democracy.’ Brahmdagh Bugti

US threatens airstrikes in Balochistan

The United States is threatening to launch airstrikes on the Taliban leadership in Quetta, the Times reported on Sunday. The threat comes amid growing divisions in Washington about whether to send more troops or reduce them and start targeting the terrorists. In a leaked strategic assessment of the war, top US and NATO commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal warned that he needed reinforcements within a year to avert the risk of failure. Although no figure was given, he is believed to be seeking up to 40,000 troops by the end of this year. Last week McChrystal denied any rift with the administration, saying “a policy debate is warranted”. The Biden camp argues that attacks by unmanned drones on Pakistan’s Tribal Areas, where many Al Qaeda leaders are thought to be hiding, have been successful. Sending more troops to Afghanistan has only inflamed tensions. The Times story quoted “senior Pakistani officials in New York” as saying that the US had asked to extend the drone attacks to areas of Balochistan, including Quetta. There has been tacit cooperation over the use of drones although publicly Islamabad denounces their use. Some British officials told the Times drone attacks on Quetta would be “unthinkable”. Western intelligence officers have alleged that Taliban sympathisers have helped some of the insurgency’s leaders to move to Karachi, where it would be impossible to strike. daily times monitor

Your urgent action needed today

Dear Supporter, There is a real danger that the best chance for accountability and justice for civilians in Balochistan - we need as many people as possible to email Amnesty International Secretary General right now ( eamil: ikhan@amnesty.org) to prevent this from happening. Ehsan Arjemandi Baloch, Norwegian citizen who went to Balochistan to visit his family and friends in Balochistan (Pakistani occupied) was forcefully abducted by the Pakistani Intelligence Agencies, on his way to Karachi. Mr Ehsan’s family have not heard from him since his abduction. The family members say that Ehsan is suffering from heart disease and it very likely that he will be tortured by the Pakistani security forces. Mr. Zakir Majeed, the senior vice chairperson of the Baloch Student Organisation –Azaad (BSO). He was abducted by the Intelligence agents on June 8, 2009, while he was at the marketplace in Mastung, near Quetta with two other BSO members. Plain-clothed men identified themselves as intelligence agents working for the Pakistan Army, before taking Majeed away without informing him of any charges against him. Another student, Miss Karima Baloch, 23, was sentenced to three years in prison and fined Rs 150,000 (US$1,875) by the Anti Terrorist Court (ATC) in Turbat, Balochistan, on June 2, 2009, after she and several others women had demonstrated in August 2006 against disappearances. She was charged with defiling the flag of Pakistan and with sedition. (3) Dr Deen Mohammad Baloch a young Baloch doctor has been abducted on June, 29, 2009, from his official residence in Ornarch Hospital; he is also a member of a Baloch political party BNM (Baloch National Movement). He children say that he was the only bread earner of the family and after his arrest the children cannot even afford to go to school. Chakar Qambar Baloch another young Baloch student has been arrested from Quetta on July 10, 2009. After two nights of sever torture he has been charged with anti state activities. But his family and friends say that he is one of the brightest students in his class and has never been involved in anti militant activities. His only fault is that he raised voice against the abduction of his fellow student leader Mr. Majeed Baloch, which is why he has been arrested and charged. I missed his exams and his career has been ruined. Mr. Jalil Reki Baloch, the central information secretary of BRP (Baloch Republican Party) has been abducted by the Intelligence Agencies of Pakistan on 13 February 2009. He is still missing and family and beloved ones have not heard from his since his arrest. Master Yahya has been abducted from Noshki, Balochistan, on 11, August, 2008 his whereabouts are not known to his family and friends. His beloved ones do not know about his conditions. Some source on conditions of anonymity said that Mr Yahya is being held in Army Cantt in Quetta. Iqbal Baloch has been abducted from Mand Balochistan on 14, March 2007 along with two other friends. His friends have later been released but Iqbal Baloch is still missing. Mr Iqbal’s mother recently passed away due to the shock of her son’s missing from last many years. This list of missing person is so long, as there are thousands of Baloch who are either missing or languishing in Pakistani jails accused of crimes they did not commit. We the participants of this rally today are appealing the International community, EU, UN, US, UK and other western powers to stop supporting Pakistan unless it resolves Balochistan issue. The support of Western countries is directly being used against our unarmed civilians and hurting our people. We also appeal to International media to report the Balochistan conflict and press Pakistan to allow the international media to go to Balochistan and interview the Baloch people, especially the relatives of missing person and those who have been victims of state sponsored brutalities Sincerely, Shahid Baloch Campaign Coordinator Baloch Unity Conference BUC-UK

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Norway said it will take up the issue of one of its nationals

Norway said it will take up the issue of one of its nationals, who went missing after being abducted by the Pakistani Military Intelligence in the restive Baluchistan province more than six weeks ago, at a meeting with Pakistan foreign minister during the United Nations General Assembly in New York. A senior official of the Norwegian embassy in Washington DC said his country's foreign minister Jonas Gahr Støre would raise the issue of the abduction of Ehsan Arjemandi, 34, with his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mehmood Qureshi when the two meet during the UN general assembly in New York. Ehsan Arjemandi was abducted by a team led by Military Intelligence officer Major Mohammed Shahid, who is posted in coastal Mekran Division, local Baluch sources said. "We do not know if he is alive or dead," his brother Ali Arjemandi said on phone from Oslo. But Oslo which gives as much as 800 million krones to Pakistan each year in humanitarian assistance was confident Islamabad would not take such an extreme measure against one of its national. "After all this pressure, we do not think they would take such a radical step," the Norwegian official said. At least two Baluchistan ministers, Mir Zafarullah Zehri and Ehsan Shah -- both with known contacts with officials of the Military Intelligence and infamous Inter Services Intelligence -- had without success tried to arrange a meeting between Ehsan Arjemandi and one of his brothers, Musa Arjemandi who travelled to Quetta from Oslo for his brother's freedom. Ali Arjemandi said his brother's case is being handled by Iqbal Haider Advocate, who is trying to get a First Information Report lodged against his abductors. There are little chances of justice for those who are abducted and made to disappear in Baluchistan by the Pakistani intelligece spooks. Since Pakistan is a rogue state, officials of the supra state Military Intelligence and ISI seldom acknowledge their extra judicial acts. On April 3, when three prominent political activists Ghulam Mohammed Baluch, Lala Munir Baluch and Sher Mohammed Baluch were abducted their lawyer Kachkol Ali tried to register an FIr against the intelligence sleuths and bring the matter to the notice of the judicial authorities without success. The badly mutilated bodies of the three were found four days later. On top of the killings by the intelligence sleuths, Pakistan home minister announced a reward for those providing information about the killers of the three activist. Though a civilian government is in place in Pakistan for more than one-and-half years, Occupied Baluchistan is primarily being run by the powerful military and para-military forces and intelligence sleuths under the colonial. cantonment policy. Arjemandi had obtained his visa on Juy 23 from the Pakistan embassy in Oslo and had arrived in Pakistan three days later. He was returning after visiting relatives and friends in the Makran towns of Mand and Turbat. He was returning to Karachi when a mixed convoy of Military Intelligence sleuths and police abducted him after stopping the bus he was travelling in at the Zero Point in Uthal. He is on medications and his family is extremely concerned about his fate. Arjemandi's relatives in Karachi had tried to lodge a First Information Report, but police rejected their appeal. Later on August 23 a leader of the Baluch National Movement Rasool Baksh Mengal was abducted by intelligence officials from the same area from where the Military Intelligence abducted Arjemandi. His mutilated body was found hanging from a tree 40 miles away. In a letter to to Pakistan chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, Ali Arjemnndi sought the help of the highest court for his brother's freedom and asked him to order the Pakistani authorities to produce him in front of a court if he committed any crime or release him. "The only crime he has committed is that he is a Baluch," Arjemandi's brother wrote to the chief justice. Ehsan Arjemandi was active in Europe to expose the human rights violations of the Baluch people by the Islamic Republics of Pakistan and Iran. He is a former general secretary of the Greater Baluchistan Organization. Even prior to the kidnapping of Arjemandi, Norway had raised the appalling human rights situation in Baluchistan at the two-yearly meeting in Islamabad. Norway's assistance is based on respect for human rights. Baluchistan is in the throes of a bloody military operation for five years now. The Texas-sized territory was annexed against the wishes of the Baluch people on March 27, 1948. Tens of thousands of Baluch have been killed in their struggle for independence since then. Meanwhile, two presiding council members of the DC-based American friends of Baluchistan called upon the Norwegian government to cut off all aid to Pakistan without further delay.

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نصیر بلیدی ایران میں بلوچوں ’مذہبی آزادی بھی نہیں ہے

The first death anniversary of Baloch nationalist leader Saleem Afshani

Baloch Republican Party (BRP) District South President Saleem Afshani, He was killed on Sep 17, 2008 in Karachi.

Gas exploration hampered by Balochistan security situation

ISLAMABAD: The law and order situation is the foremost factor that has hampered the exploration of gas and production activity in Balochistan over the last few years, according to the recently-released ‘Balochistan Economic Report’. The report – a copy of which is available with Daily Times – said over three-fifths of the 657 terrorist attacks in 2006, nearly one-third of deaths in such attacks and almost half the injuries were reported in Balochistan. The report said the security situation in Balochistan worsened in 2006 compared to the previous year. It said the number of terrorist attacks in 2006 was almost twice as high as the period between 2002 and 2005. According to the report, the gas fields of Sui, Uch, Pirkoh and Loti are all located in Dera Bugti, which is at the heart of a violent conflict. The report identifies the principal reason for the deteriorating security situation as “a violent conflict between security forces and the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) and Bugti tribesmen”. It said the BLA, the Balochistan Liberation Front and Bugti militiamen launched 403 terrorist attacks in the province during 2006, killing 277 people and injuring 676 others. It said gas pipelines, security checkpoints and camps, government offices, rail tracks and bridges were targeted in these attacks. According to statistics compiled by the Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS), Dera Bugti accounted for two-fifths of the 136 terrorist attacks reported in Balochistan between January 2006 and July 2006. The attacks killed 137 people and injured 315 others. According to the Balochistan Economic Report, Kohlu district – a stronghold of the BLA—along with Quetta and Sibi represent over a quarter of the terrorist attacks. The report said Balochistan accounted for three-fifths of all terrorist attacks in Pakistan during 2006, and most of them took place in or around Dera Bugti. It said the precarious security situation in Dera Bugti was the main reason behind the decline in gas output – with the financial impact felt throughout the province. According to the study, the security situation in Balochistan was “highly unsatisfactory” during 2007, as terrorists continued attacking state installations and security apparatus. The report said with gas fields exhausting, security worsening, fiscal receipts declining and community support in doubt, Balochistan’s gas economy was in urgent need of reforms.

The Balochistan ‘package’ By Sanaullah Baloch

B.S.O. Azaad’s message on EID DAY

Baloch nation has been facing hard times from the day when it was teared apart by the British colonialists. The state of Baloch nation has worsened with the period of time, specially when the state of Pakistan and Iran occupied its regions for their strategic and economical interests. To date, thousands of Baloch children, women, elders and youth have been martyred by the occupying armies, where as another thousands are facing harsh conditions in the Pakistanian and Iranian torture cells, as both the states are famous for their violations of the international charter for human rights. The families of the missing people are in complete agony, waiting for their loved ones to return, while others in grief for their loved ones who have embraced martyrdom. These moments when whole of the nation is in pain and distress, in a state of war where it is fighting for its freedom, Baloch Student Organization Azaad requests the nation to observe the Eid with simplicity, and should remember the martyrs and the abducted people of the nation in each moment of their lives. B.S.O. Azaad, on this day of Eid notifies the international human rights organizations that Baloch nation is presently mourning on the innocent bloodshed of our people, and the only day when the Baloch nation would rejoice would be the day when the light of freedom enter into the souls of our nation and the day when the darkness of brutality would end, till that day Baloch nation would struggle against the breeders of international terrorism, Pakistan and Iran, and the day when Balochistan would emerge as an independent state that day would not only bring smiles to the Baloch nation but to the victims of terrorism all around the world.

افغانستان میں امریکہ کو شکست کی وارننگ

کوئٹہ:پولیس اہلکار ہلاک، چھ زخمی

’خفیہ ادارے تعاون کریں‘

Baloch leaders’ murder case: BHC issues notice to Defence Ministry

QUETTA: A two-member bench of the Balochistan High Court (BHC) on Thursday issued a notice to the Defence Ministry, directing it to instruct Military Intelligence (MI) and the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) to cooperate with Turbat police in the Baloch National Movement (BNM) leaders’ murder case investigation. The bench, consisting of BHC Chief Justice Qazi Faez Essa and Justice Ghulam Mustaffa Mengal, issued the orders while hearing the statement of Kech District Police Officer (DPO) Abdul Rauf Barech. The court also directed the Defence Ministry to submit detailed comments within a week. The orders said that if the officials failed to cooperate, police would be at liberty to register cases against those who, in their opinion, had information about the offence but did not provide it. The Kech DPO informed the court that lack of cooperation by the MI and ISI personnel had stalled the investigation. He said police had recorded statements by seven witnesses who could identify the abductors. Identification: The DPO said police had been directed to arrange the identification parade in accordance with the Qanoon-e-Shahdat. If disclosure was not forthcoming by the MI and the ISI about the persons concerned, all personnel employed in the agencies between April 3 and April 8, 2009 should be subjected to an identification parade, he said. Former opposition leader in the Balochistan Assembly and BNP leader Mir Kachkol Ali had alleged that security personnel whisked away the three leaders from his chambers at gunpoint.