Reko-Diq And Balochistan’s Fate
By Yousaf Ajab Baloch The Supreme Court of Pakistan finally turned Reko-Diq project accord void , which was signed 20 years ago .This project was signed between Balochistan government and Tethyan Copper Company (TCC) a joint venture between Antofagasta of Chile and Canadian’s Barrick Gold corporation.. This costly project of gold and copper in twenty [...]
Who Will Implement B.N.P.’s Election Manifesto?
By Yousaf Ajab Baloch The Balochistan National Party (B.N.P-Mengal), surrounded by a number of crises created either by the state-sponsored death squads and the Baloch armed groups, has eventually decided to participate in the upcoming election of 2013. Prior to this, the BNP (M) had boycotted the election in 2008 against the military operation in [...]
Peaceful election in Balochistan…?
Yousaf Ajab Baloch The electoral process has not functionally started due to the huge reservations and sense of insecurity in Balochistan. It seems that 3,336,650 million voters, who are supposed to vote on May 11, 2013 for 300 candidates for the National Assembly and 941 for the provincial Assembly, may only partially be part of [...]
COMMENT: Friend of the Baloch and Balochistan
By Yousaf Ajab Baloch It was a shocking news when I heard Asad Rahman, alias Chakar Khan, 62, a prominent human rights activist, journalist and guerrilla leader of the 1973-77 resistance movement in Balochistan passed away on October 29, 2012. Asad Rahman was a frontline campaigner for Baloch rights. As a guerrilla commander, he played [...]
Mengal’s Trust in the Judiciary and the Reality
By Yousaf Ajab Baloch Sardar Akhtar Mengal, the former chief minister of Balochistan and the President Balochistan National Party (BNP-M),has recorded his statement at a hearing about the unrest in Balochistan in the Supreme Court. He said that he trusted the judiciary to possess the ability to solve Baloch issue. He has plainly spoken his [...]
Baloch Missing Persons and Expectations to UN Working Group
By Yousaf Ajab Baloch The United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) mission has concluded its 10-day visit Pakistan from 10 to 20 September 2012. The delegation of UN working group visited to ascertain regarding the cases of missing persons in Pakistan, mainly, in Balochistan, the natural resources rich Province of Pakistan. [...]
Balochistan’s Unprotected Hindus
By YousafAjab Baloch The July 28, 2012 abduction of three Hindu traders of the same family in Kalat District has caused intense fear among the Hindu community in Balochistan. The kidnapping of Sunil Kumar 25, Ratan Kumar 23 and Ramish Kumar, 35,has not received much official or media attention as such incidents have unfortunately become [...]
Threats to Baloch University Lecturer, Poetess Nausheen Qambarani
By Yousaf Ajab Baloch Nausheen Qambrani is a well-known Baloch poetess and an English language lecturer at the Sardar Bahdur Khan Women University in Quetta. She is a respected social activist and human rights defender in Balochistan. For the past one week, unidentified people have constantly harassed her with death threats. Talking to the Vsh [...]
The State of Press Freedom Has Worsened in Balochistan: Zar khan Baloch
Interviewed by: Yousaf Ajab Baloch Zar khan Baloch is the Director News at Vsh News, the world’s first Balochi language satellite news channel. He hosts the current affairs program Central Point. Mr. Baloch spoke in an exclusive interview with the Bolan Voice about the state of the media in Balochistan. We are republishing the interview [...]
M.I.R.P Holds Balochistan’s First Social Media Conference
By Yousaf Ajab Baloch On July 7, the Mehrdar Institute of Research and Publication (M.I.R.P) conducted a one-day seminar on Social Media: Imagination to Approach. A large number of social activists , journalists including students of the University of Balochistan’s Department of Journalism and Mass Communication participated in the event. The seminar, which lasted for [...]