In Balochistan, Pakistan has continued to assert its authority through force rather than functioning as a federal state. Advocates of resistance politics were already under state persecution, but now even parties affiliated with Pakistan’s federal politics are...
Pakistan's ruling institutions have reportedly adopted a multi-pronged strategy in Balochistan to counter the Baloch national independence movement. This includes infiltration of religious extremists into Baloch society to counter the Baloch movement.
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In front of the Islamabad Press Club, hundreds of families affected by policies aimed at countering the Baloch insurgency and state repression continue their sit-in. However, instead of addressing the issue of forcibly disappeared persons, state...
Fourteen years ago, on April 3, 2009, in Turbat, Baloch National Movement Chairman Ghulam Muhammad Baloch, BNM leader and Baloch National Front Secretary General Lala Munir Baloch, and the Baloch Republican Party leader Sher Mohammad Baloch...
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan's arrest has created a tense situation in Pakistan. The central leadership of the Tehreek-e-Insaf Party has also been detained. Protests have been taking place for three days in various cities, including...
Dera Bugti is counted as one the regions of Balochistan that remains entrenched in poverty and turmoil. A dark chapter was etched into its history when General Pervez Musharraf's authoritarian rule initiated a violent campaign in...
Let’s forget for a moment that Baloch movement is not 70 years old and stories of enforced disappearances had not started half a century ago, but all this started at the beginning of this millennium. What have the last...
On Sunday, Pakistan’s major opposition parties flexed a power-show in Quetta against the federal government. This is the third such event by the 11 – party anti-government Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM). Like the preceding two, the event in Quetta...
On the night of April 3rd and 4th, serious attacks targeted the headquarters of Iranian forces in the coastal city of Chabahar in western Balochistan, including Colonel Kochzai Police Station, Colonel Musrat Police Station, and the...
For the past week, the entire province of Balochistan has been in a state of protest, with the families of forcibly disappeared persons and members of the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) staging sit-ins on major highways. Over...
