After attending an event in Bonn about Balochistan in April 2022, we stopped at Lützerath on our way back. Lützerath was a resistance camp—one of the first efforts to block the RWE coal mine, which had become a focal point for Germany’s rising climate change resistance movement. The entrance roads were blocked with cardboard, branches, ...
Last Sunday, the Counter-Terrorism Department picked up a woman in district Kech and claimed she was planning to carry out a suicide attack on Chinese nationals. The contents of the FIR against the 40-year-old Noor Jan could not have been more fictional. The CTD is known to register fake cases. An M.Phil student, Abdul Hafeez, ...
In 2013, Saeeda Hameed became the first girl in her family to leave her hometown of Zehri in Khuzdar district of Balochistan to pursue an education in the cosmopolitan city of Karachi. Other girls of her age in the family had already got married and mostly looked after their children. Saeeda now goes to university ...
After much effort, Saeed Ahmed and Hafiz Abdullah received approval from their superiors to take the weekend off. Cousins Saeed and Hafiz served in Balochistan Levies, a law enforcement force in the rural areas with its origins back in the days of the British raj. Their last day at work, August 29, 2013, was also ...
In the middle of the night of October 28, 2017, I received a call from one of my colleagues in the Baloch Human Rights Organization (BHRO), a group working to highlight human rights abuses in Balochistan. It was unusual to receive a call from Pakistan directly on my mobile phone. Our colleagues there would usually ...
Abdullah Abbas
Abdullah Abbas
Abdullah Abbas