Two More Disappeared Baloch Men Safely Return Home
The Baloch Hal News QUETTA: Two more missing persons, who were allegedly picked up by security forces from Marwar area, some 60 kilometers east of Quetta, have reached home on Tuesday. Nasurllah Baloch, chairman Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP), a local organization struggling for safe recovery of missing persons and force disappearances, confirmed that two missing persons Sanaullah and Shah [...]
Four People, Including Two Women, Killed in Balochistan
The Baloch Hal News QUETTA: Four people, including two women, were killed in separate incidents of violence in Kohlu and Naseerabad district on Monday. According to reports, unknown armed men killed a woman and a man in Kohlu and swiftly fled after committing the crime. However, names of the deceased could not be confirmed. Motives [...]
Police Thwart Terror Plot on Quetta-Chaman Train
The Baloch Hal News QUETTA: The Police have foiled a terror plot on the Quetta-Chaman bound passenger in Qila Abudllah district on Sunday by recovering 20-kg explosive materials. According to the police, acting upon a tip-off police searched the passenger train at Chaman Railway Station and found suspected plastic bag in one of the bogies. The [...]
Three Men Killed, Two Truck Drivers Kidnapped in Balochistan
The Baloch Hal News QUETTA: Three people, including a member of Hazara community, were killed in separate incidents of firing in different towns of Balochistan on Sunday while two truck drivers were kidnapped from district Kachhi. Unidentified armed men opened indiscriminate fire on a tyre-shop on Quetta-Sibi Highway in Dasht area of Mastung district. As [...]
Editorial: Lessons From Lyari
The eight-day long police operation in Baloch-populated Lyari district in Karachi has created enormous problems for ordinary citizens of the under-privileged locality. While the operation has been temporarily halted in the wake of a 72-hour ultimatum given by Interior Minister Rehman Malik to the People’s Aman (Peace) Committee (PPC), tensions are certain to engulf Lyari [...]
Supreme Court Bar President Says Situation in Balochistan is “Very Serious”
The Baloch Hal News QUETTA: Yaseen Azad, president of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), has termed the situation in Balochistan very serious and announced that SCBA will hold a seminar on Balochistan issue by May 26 in Islamabad. “Lawyers will invite all the stakeholders, including self-exiled Baloch leaders, Pashtun nationalists and other political forces of [...]
The Supreme Court Says, “We Don’t Know Who to Ask for Attention” as Rights Abuses Increase in Balochistan
The Baloch Hal News QUETTA: The Supreme Court of Pakistan said on Friday that a dangerous trend of violating law and constitution is emerging in Balochistan and regretted that nobody was paying serious attention toward the state of affairs in the troubled province. The Chief Justice, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry is currently heading a three-judge bench hearing a petition [...]
BRP’s Call For Shutter Down Against Lyari Operation Receives Positive Response in Balochistan
The Baloch Hal News QUETTA: A complete shutter down strike was observed in different Baloch-populated districts of Balochistan on Friday to condemn the operation in Lyari, a Baloch-dominated area of Karachi. The strike call was given by the Baloch Republican Party (BRP) and supported by Baloch student organizations and other nationalist parties. Business and trade activities [...]
Two Slain in Naseerabad Feud
The Baloch Hal News QUETTA: An old tribal enmity claimed two lives in Naseerabad district of Balochistan on Friday. According to police, two people, who were identified as Muhammad Aslam and Shabir, were on their way on a bike when armed assailants sprayed a volley of bullet on them within the limits of Saddar police station [...]
Interior Minister Promises an End to “Kill and Dump” Operations Within a Week
The Baloch Hal News QUETTA: The Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that the recovery of decomposed dead bodies of missing persons would be stopped within a week as restoration of law and order in the province is the top priority of the government. “No military operation is underway in any part of Balochistan and [...]