Gwadar has witnessed repeated attacks, targeting China. In May 2019, four assailants from the Majeed Brigade attacked Gwadar's Pearl Continental Hotel, holding it for over 24 hours. In 2021, vehicles transporting Chinese engineers were targeted. Recently,...
On 15th May, Mama Qadeer, the vice-chairman of Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP) released new data regarding recent cases of missing people.
In a tweet, he wrote that 11 people have been abducted in 24 hours from different areas...
The life of a 69-year-old bank manager at United Bank’s Hazarganji branch in Quetta changed forever after his son went missing on 13 February 2009. Known then as Qadeer Reki, the old man was looking forward to...
Before dawn on Sunday, miners working on a coal field in Geshtri were resting in their residential quarters before the start of another gruelling shift. However, for many the next shift never commenced.
In...
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.
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...
Balochistan, where the stories of people's lives are tied to struggle, rarely sees a day without someone like Saira protesting for the return of a loved one. Saira’s story is neither unique nor isolated; every household...
The Chairman of Higher Education Commission(HEC) Pakistan, Mr Tariq Banuri on 18th March announced that his institution has apprised all the universities to commence the classes ‘online’. He also added that they have asked broadband companies to...
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...
Enforced disappearances are a distressing daily occurrence in Balochistan, primarily targeting youth, political activists, and students. Concerned Baloch parents have sent their children to educational institutions in Islamabad and Punjab to shield them from this threat....
