Baloch Homeland

The Baloch homeland is known as Balochistan. It is larger in size than France. The Baloch people are living in their natural geographical boundaries. Balochistan was intentionally divided up with pieces going to three countries: Iran , Afghanistan , and Pakistan. In Pakistan again, this nation is cut into three pieces: Sind, Punjab , and Balochistan.

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Juma Khan Raisani senior leader of BNP gunned down, man killed in Dera Bugt

( July 23, 2011 ) Occupied Balochistan: Unknown armed men shot dead senior leader of Balochistan National Party (BNP) Jumma Khan Raisani and three others in Gizigi area of Khuzdar, about 300-kilometer south of Quetta. According to local police officer Mr. Qambar, Jumma Raisani was on his way back home after offering Jumma prayers when unknown armed men opened fire on his vehicle. Resultantly, Mr. Jumma, his two security guards identified as Mohammad Ishaq, Mohammad Zareef and driver Mohammad Baksh received serious bullet wounds and died on the spot.

US refused permission for Quetta consulate

Pakistan Army has also objected to the presence of US personnel in Balochistan and has already terminated CIA’s drone operations from the sand strip of Shamsi in Kharan...The United States had proposed that consulate in Quetta will help oversee the development activities carried out by Americans in Balochistan. “It will also ensure a close liaison between the Baloch people and the US since visa facility at the consulate would save lot of time being wasted in going to Karachi and Islamabad,” the US had stated.

ISLAMABAD - July 23, 2011 By: Azhar Masood, Pakistan has refused permission to the United States for opening consulate in Quetta, sources told The Nation here Friday.An approval was earlier accorded by Islamabad in 2010 but fast changing circumstances had made Pakistan realise that this can create numerous problems for Pakistan as well as the US. The Nation

We're Allah's army and fighting for Allah the almighty only, And these Baloch are infidels

Indians and Israelis helping them (Baloch) to fight against Allah and our beloved prophet..You're enemy of Allah, his prophet and Islam. You kill Punjabis here, and we're here to safeguard them. Any Baloch who'd say wrong about any Punjabi, We will cut off his tongue!'

Occupied Balochistan; July 22, 2011, Killing these Baloch is a serving Islam' said one of them. They chanted "Allahu Akbar" and one moved forward opening fire at me', said Nasir Dagarzai Baloch who miraculously escaped death the first time after being shot and dumped by Pakistani army. He wasn't so lucky the second time.

Bomb blast kills four workers in Balochistan

Victims were riding in an oil company vehicle

Gulf News: (July 22, 20110 By Mohsin Ali, Correspondent: Four people were killed in a bomb attack yesterday in a remote district of Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province, police said. The province is plagued by a low-scale insurgency involving Baloch separatists. Gulf News

Pakistan using Cobra helicopters to target Baloch civilians in Chamalang

Baltimore Foreign Policy Examiner

Baloch Martyrs Honoured at the Vancouver BHRC-IVBMP Joint Gathering

Speech By Ayesheh Baloch:Today we have gathered here to pay tribute to our heroes and to the martyred. They sacrificed their precious lives, resisted occupation, and left a lasting legacy for the coming generations to carry on the struggle for freedom

(July 17, 2011) Some of us may ask how long the road to victory is. All I can say is that no matter how beautiful the thought of the final victory may appear but it is the sum total of our everyday achievements that make that outcome possible. As long as there is resistance, we stand undefeated. This is what weakens the resolve of our enemy and gives strength to our nation to move on. Our martyrs have paid a heavy price for the everyday battles fought on the streets, hills, colleges, and torture chambers to reach where we stand today. Bygwaah

Balochistan is forgotten Tibet of South Asia, Mehran tells Europe

( July 16, 2011 ) by Ahmar Mustikhan: While Baloch culture is secular and open minded, Balochistan has been filled with Taliban militants and integrists building madrassas and trying to impose strict Islamic code on the population. People are forced to replace their mother tongue with Urdu and to abandon their ancestral culture.

According to the latest Amnesty International reports 40 Baluch leaders and political activists have been killed over the past four months. Activists, politicians and student leaders are among those who have been targeted in enforced disappearances, abductions, arbitrary arrests and cases of torture and other ill-treatment. Bygwaah

Mentally Unstable man shot by Pakistani Coast Guards

Armed personnel of Coast Guards in Pasni shot dead a man who was stated to be mentally deranged on Friday, police said.

( July 16, 20 11) Occupied Balochistan: Police quoting the personnel of Coast Guards said a man displayed a pistol from a distance and approaching towards the check post situated ward No.1 in Pasni when personnel deputed there opened fire killing him instantly. “Later we came to know that the man was carrying a toy pistol and was not mentally stable,” said a police official quoting security guards. The deceased was shifted to the nearby hospital for autopsy where he was identified as Miandad s/o Pasand Khan.

Prof. Saba Dashtyari Honoured for his Role as the Cultural Icon for the Baloch Freedom Struggle at the Toronto Gathering

Mr. Chaharyar, representative of the Turkoman movement, indicated that in Pakistani occupied Balochistan they have murdered Prof. Dashtyari and in the Iranian occupied Balochistan they hanged Yaqoob Mehernehad – and one day this artificial boundary will disappear and a united free Balochistan shall re-emerge on the map of the world.

Toronto, July 10, 2011 – Baloch Human Rights Council (Canada) and the International Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (IVBMP) held a joint memorial reference event for Prof. Saba Dashtyari who was murdered in cold blood on June 1, 2011 by the Pakistani military death squad in Quetta, Balochistan. A diverse group of people attended the event at the North York Civic Centre from communities including Baloch, Sindhis, Kashmiris, Ahwazi Arabs, and Turkoman to pay their respects to the revolutionary scholar, Prof. Dashtyari.

The memorial event began with a moment of silence to respect and contemplate on the struggle and the ultimate price Prof. Dashtyari willingly paid for the freedom of his people from occupation and repression. Secretary General, BHRC (Canada), Mohammad Ali Baloch presented the audience with patriotic Balochi poetry and conducted the deliberations for the evening. Bygwaah

IVBMP (Canada) & BHRC (Canada) hold Remembrance Day in July 17

( July 11, 2011 ) Press Release: (Vancouver) Canada) International Voice for Baloch Missing Persons – Canada and Baloch Human Rights Council - Canada both are jointly holding a Remembrance Day on July 17.

Baloch nation remembers their fallen heroes who fought for their homeland, and rejected to live under the slavery and oppression of their occupiers. They resisted exploitation of their rich natural resources at gun point by occupying states, non democratic (Pakistan) and theocratic (Iran) and they proudly defended their ancestral land, national identity, culture and their mother language. Link

COMMENT: Callous indifference - Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur

For the state and its institutions, including the judiciary, the brutalities and atrocities inflicted on the Baloch people do not register as crimes against humanity. (Below is mutilated body of Hanif Baloch, Former Zonal President of Baloch Student Organization-Azad in Pasni)

( July 11, 2011 ) The Pakistani state’s ‘abduct and dump’ policy in Balochistan continues as viciously as ever and the recent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) report was a lot of water off duck’s back. Those who put no premium on human lives exhibit callous indifference and care not a whit for reports. This newspaper reported on the July 5 that bodies Zubair Baloch and Hafeez Baloch abducted a few months back were recovered and one Khalid Haji Hatim abducted by security personnel. On the July 7, it reported that bodies found from Turbat, Khuzdar and Gwadar included that of Hanif Baloch, a former president of BSO-Azad (Pasni zone), kidnapped from Hub two days before, and Azam, Rahim and Qadir Baloch. Daily Times

UN and International Community must declare Balochistan as an occupied territory: Hyrbyair Marri

“I am totally against referendum in occupied Balochistan and I call for unconditional pull out of occupying troop from Balochistan"

(July 10, 2011 ) Quote: Baloch leader congratulate South Sudanese people on their Independence. South Sudan’s declaration of Independence determines that Nations cannot be forced at gun point to live under slavery. If North's indiscrimination and exploitation has result in the birth of new state then no one should be a hurdle in way of Balochistan’s National Liberation. Baloch Nation will decide for their future. Baloch Warna

Bodies of two abducted Marri Baloch found in Loralai

Eyes-witnesses say that the bodies were at least two weeks old and one of them was only a Skeleton of bones because the wild animals had eaten his flash. The relatives have only recognized their clothes and shoes.

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( July 10, 2011 ) Occupied Balochistan: Two bodies were recovered from the Maikhtar area of Loralai district on Saturday. Levies Force official said that, on being informed Levis teamed spotted the site and evacuated two decomposed bodies to the morgue of the Loralai hospital for identification where they have been recognized as Wadera Habibullah Marri and Wazir Khan Marri both resident of Kohlu.

National Remembrance Day to be held in London on 17 July to tribute the Baloch Martyrs

“The Baloch Martyrs Day 15 July”- “Shahmiren Balochaane Roch' 15 July”

( July 9, 2011 ) The Baloch nation, like many other nations, in their struggle for freedom has endured great sacrifices. In their endeavor to achieve these aims many have encountered and experienced the wrath of the occupying states. In consequence, many Baloch men, women and children in their struggle for National Liberation have been treated violently and inhumanly by the military and the intelligence services of these occupying states. The very harsh treatment of Baloch people is well recorded, particularly by states such as Pakistan and Iran. Since their illegal occupation of Balochistan these states have been involved in the systematic imprisonment, torture, abduction and extra-judicial killings of Baloch. Bygwaah

Baloch women demand recovery of their brothers

“It is surprising that the superior courts and judges are endorsing and ignoring this matter,” We are citizens of this state but why our people are being kidnapped and brutally killed at the hand of government functionaries,” questioned the teenaged girl with tears rolling down from her cheeks.

( July 8, 2011 ) A teenage girl and a woman, both from very poor families and residents of Turbat, have demanded world humanitarian organisations and the United Nations to play their decisive role for safe and instant recovery of their missing brothers Ghulam Qadir and Mazhar Baloch.

“Qadir, a schoolteacher, Mazhar and Khalid Jan were kidnapped by security forces from their residences in Nasirabad area of Turbat on May 22. The mutilated body of Khalid Jan was found dumped along the road next day while whereabouts of other two are still unknown,” said sister of Ghulam Qadir while addressing a news conference outside the Quetta Press Club on Wednesday. Daily Times

Charting a Course of Unity, Forging a New Arrangement

The Baloch National Movement at this critical and pivotal juncture cannot afford deception and double standards of Baloch parties that in reality are siding with the state and silent on state’s atrocities in Balochistan. They should mince their ways if they want to win the hearts and mind of Baloch masses.

( July 7, 2011 ) By Archen Baloch: Let us put our efforts together to forge a new pact under a single agenda which should be acceptable to all Baloch parties that believe in liberation of Balochistan. A strong, disciplined and united agenda is needed to advance the Baloch national liberation struggle and to complete the mission of fallen heroes of Liberation movement. Baloch Warna

Clashes Rage In Pakistan's Baluchistan Province By Julie Mccarthy - NPR Report

On one side of this fight is an insurgency, a mix of nationalist groups such as the banned Baloch Liberation Front. Non-violent groups support independence as well.

JULIE MCCARTHY

Ms. HANI SAFEER BALOCH: My name is Hani Safeer Baloch. My father, Mr. Safer Baloch was abducted on 15 August 2010.

MCCARTHY: Hani Safeer Baloch recalls how her ailing father checked into the hospital on a Sunday afternoon when suddenly a group of men, wearing she says, the uniform of the paramilitary Frontier Corps, or F.C., pulled up in three vehicles, and took her father and a friend of his away.

Ms. BALOCH: They abducted my father in front of many people, there were many witnesses. They saw the people themselves that they were the forces of F.C. And there were no investigations at all.

MCCARTHY: In May, her father's bullet-ridden body was found dumped in a ditch near a waterway. Safeer Baloch was a teacher and reported to be a member of the pro-independence Baluchistan National Movement. It's not banned and daughter Hani Safeer says her father did nothing illegal. Ostomaan       

Candle Light Vigil in the Memory of Prof. Saba Dashtyari and Saleem Shehzad in Canada

(Vancouver, June 12, 2011) Baloch Human Rights Council (Canada) and the International Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (Canada) joined hands with the secular and democratic representatives of the local communities and the provincial parliament to pay tributes to the martyred professor of Balochistan University, Prof. Saba Dashtyari and investigative journalist Saleem Shahzad at Holland Park, Surrey, British Columbia.

Conference on Baloch language and cultural in the United Kingdom – report

April 5, 2011, London: Baloch Cultural Society – UK has held a conference on Balochi language and Culture in London United Kingdom. Distinguished speakers shed light on the importance of Balochi language and culture. Veteran Balochi language poet waja Akbar Barakzai chaired the first half of the conference while the second half was chaired by Hoshang Naruee. A fair number of Baloch, and speakers of other languages attended the conference. 

Protest for the recovery of Baluch forced-disappeared person, govt deceiving people: Nasrullah Baluch

Occupied Baluchistan: (August 23, 2020) Hunger strike camp for release of Zakir Majeed Baloch entered into 102nd day but there is no information of Zakir Majeed’s whereabouts so far. A large number of people protest outside Quetta press club here on Monday. Addressing the protesters and media men Zakir Majeed Sisters said that the family has been sitting on protest for more than hundred days but the ignorance of the state (Pakistan) is unimaginable. “If Pakistan has even a shred of decency then they should surface Zakir Majeed and present him to their own court of law for a trial”.

Zakir was struggling for human dignity, disappearing people for years like this shows the state’s savageness and uncivilised manners, he said. She appealed to all human loving organizations, Religions and Nations to take notice of State atrocities and play their vital role to save the life of her brother and thousands of other Baloch illegally detained persons.Balochwarna

Baloch Professor Interrupted While Addressing Group of Journalists and General Public

Karachi: Professor Saba Dasthyari, a Baloch intellectual, poet and linguists addressed a group of journalists and the public about the Pakistan’s crimes against the Baloch. He stated that since forceful occupation of Baluchistan from1948 till 2010, “This missing person issue is going on in Baluchistan”. Similarly, he stated in western occupied Baluchistan where Iranian Savak (Organization of National Security and Information), and Mullahs rulers hand Baloch have been disappearing, and the execution of Baloch is going on till today.

He stated if someone writes a book about the Pakistan's war crimes against the Baloch, like Bertrand Russell who had written a book of American “War Crimes in Vietnam” Pakistan’s war crimes list will be endless in Baluchistan.

While addressing such bitter historical facts to the audience he was interrupted on stage by a Pakistani female journalist, Nargis Khanum. She attempted to stop him during his speech. But he stated to the Pakistani journalist that you are also a journalist then do not disrupt me, let’s have courage to face the truth and not be afraid from the truth.

He told the audience; as long as the historical facts of Baluchistan are not accepted such as Baloch and Baluchistan are separate than Pakistan. The decades of ongoing Baluchistan political conflict will not be resolved.

Professor Saba Dasthyari himself, as an educator and linguistic clearly rejected the false claim of state of Pakistan, that Baloch should have good education and good schools. He stated it is not Pakistan’s problem and Baloch nation is going to handle that problem once Baluchistan has become independent. Balochhomeland.

Life on the Geopolitical Fault Lines: Does Contemporary History of Balochistan Reflect Poland’s Past? Part 11

By Belaar Baloch, (July 14, 2010) Since their incorporation into Iran and Pakistan, both parts of Balochistan have been controlled in a brutal fashion. Tehran and Islamabad continued to extract resources while maintaining internal security through a crude mix of terror and inducement. To strengthen its hold on the Iranian part, Tehran systematically crushed tribal power – the last line of defence guarding against Persian domination of the people of western Balochistan. By contrast, Pakistan never succeeded in fully imposing itself on eastern Balochistan; instead, it relied on tactics redolent of earlier colonial modes of control: first, offering meagre bribes to an elite willing to collaborate daylight natural-resource robbery; and second, constant use of force or threat of force against nationalists, who opposed their plans.

Despite the relative success of this strategy in maintaining for decades their  exploitative policies, these two countries now appear to bent on full-scale  control of the region, transforming the native population into an aboriginal-type minority. In Search of Baloch National Interest

Baloch people are hanged in public by Iranian regime

The Iranian regime is executing Baloch people based on allegations such as sedition, drug smuggling and terrorism. Through such false allegations the fundamentalist regime is portraying the Baloch legal and legitimate struggle wrongly to the international community.

Meanwhile the non-democratic Iranian regime has been denying the Baloch people their birth rights in their own homeland of Balochistan for many decades.

Hundreds of Baloch youth and Baloch Sunni religious scholars have been executed without any fair trial nor have they had any chance to present their evidence in court. Recently, on June 20th 2009, two Baloch were executed in Zahedan, the capital city of Balochistan, by the order of Iranian regime's Islamic court.

List of Young Baloch Men hanged/killed by Iranian Regime in 2004-2009

A Baloch mother threatens to go on hunger strike till death if her son is not released

Quetta: The mother of Chakar Qambarani has threatened to sit on hunger strike till death if her son is not released within five days. Chakar Qambarani Baloch was abducted by the Pakistani intelligence agencies on 6 February 2009 and has been missing ever since. His family member, party colleagues and well-wishers have already started a token hunger strike earlier this month, today is the 17th day of their hunger strike. The hunger strike participants appealed to the international Human Rights Organisation, the EU and the UN to take notice of the Pakistani atrocities against the Baloch nation.

"The international community must put pressure on Pakistan to make sure the safe release of the missing Baluch because we fear that the missing Baluch might suffer the same fate as the martyred of Murghab (Turbat town in Balochistan). I want to remind those who call themselves the champions of human right but they are silent on the death and destruction of Baloch Nation." said one participant of the strike.

Meanwhile Chakar Qambarani Baloch's mother today came in public and addressed the newsmen at Quetta press club. She said that her son Chakar Qambarani Baloch and Dr Bashir Azeem Baloch were whisked away by the personal of Pakistani intelligence agencies on 6 February 2009. After one and a half month's illegal imprisonment Dr Bashir Azeem was released but her son (Chakar) was still missing. She warned that if her son was not released within five days, she along with the sister and little daughter of Chakar Qambarani Baloch will sit on hunger strike till death. She said if anything happened to them during the hunger strike, the provincial governemnt of Balochistan and Pakistan's federal government should be held responsible for that.

She said "we have tried all democratic ways and means of protests i.e. we took to streets, we informed the governor of Balochistan, we submitted appeals to Balochistan high court but nothing seems to work. Only those people can understand my pain and suffering whose loved ones are also missing. I appeal to all those mothers, sister and daughter whose loved ones have been separated from them, come and help me and together we can raise voice and make it possible for our sons and relatives to come back home safe".

She said that her son did not commit any crimes and she did not know why he was still being held and possibly severely tortured. She appealed to the international Human Rights Bodies to take notice of the abduction of innocent Baloch by Pakistani intelligence agencies. She however questions those so called Baloch who are a working for Pakistan government that what if their loved one were missing? Don't they love their children? Aren't they human being and don't they have any feeling? She said today these Baloch are only excited for a seat or a post but they are forgetting that they will be answerable to their motherland someday.

She said the governor of Balochistan has told them that her son was in the custody of intelligence agencies but the intelligence agencies denied this in court. However it is obvious now that her son was in the custody of intelligence agencies of Pakistan because Shahzeb Baloch of BSO - Azaad who was released on 17 Jun from Loralia said that Chakar Qambari Baloch and other Baloch youth were with him in Army barracks in that place, where he was held in past several months.

On the other hand family of Juma Khan Marri has said that he has once again been abducted by Pakistani's intelligence agencies. They said Juma Khan was first abducted on 21 October 2006 and was released after several months of torture and agony. However he has been picked up on 12 Jun 2009 once again. They said that Juma Marri is a contractor at Hazarganji fruit and vegetable market. Other contractors and family of Mr Marri have tried to register a case against the intelligence agencies in Shalkot police station but the police refused to register a case. They alleged that the intelligence agencies have abducted 1500 persons from New Kahan "also known as Marri camp" only and thousands of people including women and children have been abducted and are being illegally detained from different parts of Balochistan including Quetta, Hub, Panjgur, Turbat, Kohlu, Dera Bugti and Noshki. They appealed to the UN to take notice of the abductions of the citizens of Balochistan.

News source: Daily Tawar

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