In a surprise twist of political power game ahead of general elections, Nawabzada Lashkari Raisani joined the Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) on Sunday. Lashkari Raisani is the younger brother of former chief minister Balochistan Aslam Raisani. He has also served as the the former Balochistan chief of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP). In 2013, he ...
The Pakistan military has escalated a weeks-long sweeping operation in Balochistan’s Mashkay area, the hometown of Baloch militant leader Dr Allah Nazar Baloch. Although several areas of Balochistan have been under constant military assault for over a decade, the latest military operation is unprecedented in terms of the number of the affected women and children. ...
“When darkness engulfed the streets, I lit myself like a candle”, reads the cover photo of Hassam’s Facebook account. He is a total misfit for politics. He doesn’t have the bombastic and harsh political tone which has become a characteristic feature of Baloch nationalist activists. Before he was picked up by the Sindh Rangers from ...
A Baloch human rights group has claimed that officials of Karachi and Quetta press clubs refused to give space to the relatives of missing persons for press conference. The Baloch Human Rights Organization (BHRO), a group helping the relatives of missing persons highlight their cases, said in a press release that the press club officials ...
Nine-year-old Aftab might have heard of the conflict in Balochistan, but he is too young to understand any of it. That did not stop him from becoming a victim of this simmering conflict. He was picked up by the Sindh Rangers and personnel of Pakistan’s intelligence agencies from a Karachi apartment on 28th of October ...
Nawaz Atta was an aspiring poet who helped the family members of Baloch missing persons, and then he himself went missing. Born in 1995 in the small town of Gichk in district Panjgur of Balochistan, he had long dreamt of becoming a poet and a fiction writer. Therefore, after completing his primary education from his ...
Seven people were wounded on Monday in a hand grenade attack at the office of the National Party in Balochistan’s Turbat city. Three among the injured are stated to be in serious condition while others sustained minor injuries. Eyewitnesses told Balochistan Times two motorcyclists slowed down in front of the party’s office and the one ...
After years of separation, a number of Baloch nationalist groups jointly held protest rallies on the World Human Rights Day to highlight human rights abuses in Balochistan. The Baloch National Movement (BNM), the Baloch Republican Party (BRP), the Baloch Republican Students Organization (BRSO) and the Baloch Students Organization (BSO) held joint demonstrations in different countries ...
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Some influential human rights activists, writers and artists expressed concern over the enforced disappearance of Wahid Baloch in a press conference at the Karachi Press Club today, November 25. Wahid is a Baloch literary figure, who was abducted 120 days ago, on July 26 this year, near Toll Plaza around Karachi’s suburbs while on ...
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