Since I arrived in Canada as a political asylum seeker and after being able to speak and write in English, I have been spending most of my time and energy creating awareness about the Pakistani government’s human rights violations and the humanitarian situation in Balochistan. I have reached out to dozens of human rights organizations ...
In the early morning of May 20, Noor Jan, a farmer, hanged himself near his village in Awaran, Balochistan. He did that to avoid the continuous threats and summons from Pakistani army officials, who had ordered him to hand over his daughter to them. His crime was that he had married off his daughter Nazal ...
ساجد و منی سنگتیۓ اُمر اینکس دراج نهاَت که سد ھمینکس من چه آییا در بُرتگ۔ چار سالیێن سنگتیا من چه ساجد ھمنچک چیز ھیل کرت که منا وتا باوَر نبوت۔ آ ھم آنلاین۔ اے ھبر منا مدام بژنیگَ کنت که من گۆن ساجدا هجبر ھم دُچار نکپتان۔ ساجدا تئیی ھبر انچۆ په دلگۆش گۆش ...
In Balochistan, almost every day ends with a sad, painful story and dying hopes. Last Sunday, it ended with the news of the passing away of Ilahi Bakhsh, the father of former BSO chairman Zahid Baloch who has been in the illegal custody of Pakistani intelligence for the past six years. The old man waited ...
Nothing stops the Pakistani army from violating the Baloch people’s rights, not even natural calamities. There have been reports of enforced disappearances in Balochistan on a daily basis despite a call from the United Nations to stop armed activity during the ongoing global pandemic. The army in fact tries to cash in on natural disasters ...
A Baloch who previously worked as a sergeant in the United Arab Emirates police has been whisked away by security forces just after he arrived in Karachi. Haji Abdul Samad, apparently in his sixties, posted a video on the Facebook Page News Gidroshia, saying his brother, Haji Sher Jan, was detained at the Jinnah International ...
In October three years ago, I, accompanied by a few fellow refugees from Balochistan, waited outside a Canada Border Services Agency office for another Baloch refugee friend who was being investigated to ascertain he was not a bad guy. As we waited, we received the news that another friend, a Baloch student leader, has been ...
As enforced disappearances and kill-and-dump operations continue in Balochistan, an increasing number of evidence is surfacing to prove Pakistan army’s involvement in extorting money from the families of victims. On August 20, 2019, a friend sent me a link to a news story on WhatsApp with the headline: “[Pakistan] Army major gets life term for ...
On Feb 18, 2019, online Baloch activists shared a picture of a smiling eight-year-old child with a caption that read that Bohair was an eight-month-old infant when his father, Atiq Ur Rahman, was abducted by Pakistan military and he is still missing. Atiq was taken away during a late-night raid on his house in Khuzda’r ...
Family members and friends lost connection with Sarfaraz Ahmed, 20, a student at the Department of Psychology of Peshawar University, at the midnight of Feb 13, this year. Sarfaraz was expected in Dera Ghazi Khan (D.G. Khan), a Baloch-dominated city in Punjab, by 11:00 am the following day to spend time with his student friends. ...
