Balochistan, with an abundance of mineral resources, lays in abject poverty due to mismanagement and oppression that has continued for decades. The gross unemployment and poverty in the region is one of the worst in the world.
On 16th April 2020, an anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Pakistan issued non-bailable arrest warrants against 15 people, allegedly belonging to the banned Balochistan Liberation Army, for being involved in an attack on the Chinese consulate on November 23, 2018.
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On 3rd February February, individuals donning Pakistan Army uniforms forcibly abducted Rahim Zehri, his wife Rashida Zehri, mother, and two children from Gushkuri Town, Quetta. While Rahim Zehri's mother and children were released after two days,...
The same policies that provoke protests in Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan are now being enforced in Sindh too. Hidayat Lohar, a key figure in Sindh's nationalist politics, was forcefully disappeared for the months, after hus release he...
On the 13th of August, a roadside IED (Improvised Explosive Devise) hit Frontier Corps’ (FC) convoy in Absar town of Kech district in Balochistan. As a result, multiple casualties were reported; however, the...
The US state department’s report on Human rights violations in Pakistan has extensively reported on Balochistan unlike Amnesty International’s annual report on the Asia Pacific where the rights organization seemed to have forgotten the existence of Balochistan...
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...
In war-torn Balochistan, Baloch women are victims of dual oppression. On one hand, they are held captive by outdated traditions imposed by local Sardars and feudal lords, and on the other, they are victims of state...
Sardar Mengal along with Balochistan National Party chief Akhtar Mengal, and Shafiq Mengal's group, have been engaged in a months-long conflict in Wadh Tehsil, Khuzdar. In response, Balochistan National Party Mengal has announced a long march.
Collective punishment is more often considered as physically hurting a group of people for someone else’s wrongdoings. This has been a common occurrence in erstwhile FATA (Federally Administered Tribal Areas), where whole villages were punished whenever Pakistani forces were...
