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Sajid Hussain

Dr Allah Nazar makes dramatic comeback

  In a dramatic comeback, Baloch rebel leader Dr Allah Nazar comes out of the dead to rubbish the Pakistan army’s claims that they had killed him months ago in a military operation in Balochistan’s Mashkay area. In a video released by the Balochistan Liberation Front, which he leads, he says the government is running ...

Sajid Hussain

Army burns down another three villages in Balochistan

Qazi Ali Murad, who himself doesn’t know exactly why people call him Qazi, is a livestock farmer and he has a guest for lunch today (Wednesday). So, according to Baloch traditions, he slaughters a goat and gives its meat to his wife to make lunch for the guest. While his wife is cooking, arrives around ...

News Desk

Army announces head money for information about Dr Allah Nazar

The Pakistan army has announced head money on several Baloch separatist leaders, including Dr Allah Nazar Baloch, the chief of the Balochistan Liberation Front, in return for information about their whereabouts. Posters have been posted on walls in Dr Nazar’s native town of Mashkay in Balochistan by the army with the photos of around a dozen ...

News Desk

Confident Brahmdagh takes strong stand on freedom struggle

  Baloch leader Brahmdagh Bugti on Monday took a strong stand on Balochistan’s independence struggle, and asked Pakistani establishment to conduct a referendum under the UN’s supervision to find out what the Baloch nation wanted. While talking to a Pakistani television channel, he said he was not ready for any talks when the Pakistani military ...

News Desk

FC burns to ashes Ghulam Mohammed’s house

Personnel of paramilitary FC has set on fire the houses of late Baloch leader Ghulam Mohammed Baloch and his relatives which are located in the same compound. Late Sunday evening, hundreds of FC soldiers surrounded the compound and torched 14 mud houses belonging to Ghulam Mohammed Baloch and his relatives, including Abid Hussain, in his native Mand ...

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Top Dubai official calls for free Balochistan in Iran

The Head of General Security for the Emirate of Dubai and former Dubai Police Force chief, Dhahi Khalfan Tamim, has urged the Arab world to provide diplomatic support for a sovereign country for the Baloch in Iran. The Lieutenant General took to Twitter to express his sympathy with the Baloch. He, however, remained tight-lipped about ...

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Specially trained military force being formed for Gwadar

The Pakistan government has formed a special security division comprising 1,200 strong security personnel specially trained to protect Chinese engineers and workers, and to secure multi-billion Chinese investments in Balochistan’s port city of Gwadar. A meeting on Friday finalized the formation of a new force consisting of 1,200 personnel for the so-called “Gwadar Safe City ...

Sajid Hussain

Baloch writers get death threats for ‘blasphemy’

A man claiming to be representing Tehrik e Taliban Afghanistan has threatened to kill two Balochi writers if they were confirmed to be running an anonymous Facebook account which is “posting blasphemous images and content.” The concerned Balochi writers are Dr Naguman and Dr Hanif Sharif, both well-known in Balochistan for their fiction works. They ...