by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, December 29th, 2023QUETTA: Balochistan caretaker Chief Minister Mir Ali Mardan Khan Domki has announced that both federal and provincial governments have formed separate committees to investigate the Balaach Mola Bakhsh killing case. Additionally, a separate committee from the federal government is actively engaged in talks with participants of the Turbat march sit-in in Islamabad. Chairing a meeting on law and order, CM Domki said the inquiry reports from both committees…
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by Imran Gabol in Dawn, Dec 20th, 2023LAHORE: Thousands of people joined the Baloch Yakjehti Council (BYC) marchers on Tuesday as they reached Taunsa Sharif on Tuesday, protesting against alleged extrajudicial killings. The marchers plan to spend the night in Taunsa Sharif and will decide whether to continue their long march to Islamabad on Wednesday. Previously, the protesters held a sit-in in DG Khan and blocked Globe Square, demanding transport for their onward journey. Their…
by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, December 17th, 2023QUETTA: Hundreds of political workers, human rights defenders and members of civil society along with the family of Balach Mola Bakhsh after a long journey reached Kohlu, where a complete strike was observed on the call of Baloch Yakjehti Council (BYC) to protest against his alleged extrajudicial killing on Saturday. The BYC leaders had decided to travel from Quetta to Islamabad along with other protesters to stage a…
By Naweed Samadi in TOLOnews, Dec 16, 2023 at 10:37 PMNAI, a group that supports open media in Afghanistan, reported that since the beginning of 2023 they have recorded 120 cases of violence, arrest, mistreatment and killing of journalists in the country. The head of NAI, Zarif Karimi, said that this statistic shows an increase in violence against journalists in recent years, based on the number of employees. “In the year 2023 we recorded more…
by Behram Baloch in Dawn, Nov 29th, 2023GWADAR: A comprehensive shutter down and wheel jam strike was observed throughout the Makran division on Tuesday in protest against the alleged extrajudicial killing of Balaach Mola Bakhsh during an intelligence-based operation on Pasni road in Turbat. The protest against the alleged extrajudicial killing has now entered its sixth day. The call for the shutdown and wheel jam strike was issued by the Baloch Yakjehti Council (BYC) in…
By Anwar Iqbal in Dawn, November 8th, 2023WASHINGTON: Former US president Donald Trump claims that former prime minister Imran Khan was elated at the assassination of Qassem Soleimani. Mr Trump made this claim this week while addressing a campaign rally in Houston, Texas, a city with a large Pakistani diaspora population. Many PTI supporters in Houston are leaning towards Mr Trump because they perceive the Biden administration as being hostile towards Mr Khan. Mr Soleimani…
report in The The Daily Star’, Oct 4, 2023Border killings by the Indian Border Security Force have increased this year compared to the year before, as per statistics compiled by human rights organisations. At least 17 Bangladeshis have been shot to death within the first nine months of this year, while one person was tortured to death, said Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) in a statement yesterday. On the other hand, the Human Rights Support…
by Zia Ur Rehman in Prism, Dawn, Oct 3, 2023The writer is a journalist and researcherTragedy struck at the heart of Balochistan’s Mastung district on September 29 when a suicide bomber targeted a gathering preparing for the 12th Rabiul Awwal procession. The blast echoed through the main market, killing 55 people and leaving over 120 injured. Muhammad Ashgar, a member of the procession’s organising committee, says despite threats from militant groups, conveyed to them by…
report in The Times of India, Sept 29, 2023NEW DELHI: The killing of Maulana Ziaur Rahman, a cleric, at a park in Karachi’s Gulistan-e-Jauhar would have attracted the attention of his kin, his friends and those convinced of his religious piety. In Pakistan, several of the clerics are engaged in extra-religious gigs with some of them getting regularly bumped off for various reasons. The assassination of Rahman by two motorcycle-borne unidentified gunmen who pumped multiple…
AFP report, Sept 7, 2023DUSHANBE: Tajikistan said on Wednesday that it had killed three members of a “terrorist group” who had infiltrated the country from neighbouring Afghanistan, the second such incident this year in the Central Asian nation. Tajikistan is a sparsely-populated, poor, mountainous ex-Soviet country where fears have risen that the return to power of the Taliban in its war-scarred southern neighbour could destabilise the country. “Three members of a terrorist organisation breached the…