Saturday, February 28th, 2009
Islamabad: Baloch Students Organization (Mohiudin) organized a demonstration in front of Islamabad Press Club to condemn the assassination attempt on renowned Baloch scholar Jan Mamad Dashti. Sami Baloch, zonal organizer of BSO, lead the protest. Deputy organizer of BSO, Hakeem Baloch, Noor Baloch and Zaman Baloch were also among the organizers of… »
Rejecting allegations by Frontier Corps chief Maj-Gen Saleem Nawaz, the Baloch Republican Party, denied on Friday any of their members or leader was behind UNHCR official’s abduction.
Saleem Nawaz had told reporters a day earlier that Brahundag was the mastermind behind John Solecki’s kidnapping.
“We have already condemned the kidnapping of the UN official and our party… »
By Malik Siraj Akbar
QUETTA: While hundreds of Baloch Republican Party (BRP) activists protested on Monday in front of the Quetta Press Club against the ‘disappearance’ of BRP Secretary General Dr Bashir Azeem Baloch, the BRP’s fugitive chief Nawabzada Brahamdagh Bugti pledged to ‘repay’ the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) for its ‘brutal anti-Baloch policies’ during its… »
Reporters Without Borders today voiced its outrage at torture inflicted on Javid Lehri, of the Urdu-language Daily Azadi during the nine months he was imprisoned in Quetta, Balochistan province, in the south-west of the country.
The journalist was snatched by around 20 military intelligence agents from his student hall of residence in Kuzdar district on 29… »
Twenty-seven-year-old Nawabzada Bramdagh Bugti, a grandson of late Akbar Bugti, is a leading Baloch guerilla leader. Waging a battle against Islamabad for the “liberation of Balochistan” from the rocky hills of the province, a steadfast Bugti spoke to Daily Times in an exclusive… »