Shahzain Bugti Arrested on Weapon Smuggling Charges in Quetta
The Baloch Hal News QUETTA: The president of Jamori Watan Party (JWP) Shahzain Bugti has been arrested by the Frontier Corps (FC) along with a heavy cache of weapons, confirmed Hamid Shakil, Deputy Inspector General (DIG-Operations). Government sources said Shahzain’s 12-van convoy had been intercepted at around 4:00 a.m at Baleli check post in Quetta [...]
Senior Journalist Whisked Away Around Gwadar
The Baloch Hal News PASNI: In another case of ‘enforced disappearance’ of a journalist in Balochistan, a senior member of Pasni Press Club Mohammad Siddiq Eidho and one of his friends Yosuaf Baloch were whisked away by what the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) blamed as personnel working for the country’s intelligence agencies. According [...]
Baloch Magazine Journalist “Kidnapped” Near Pasni
The Baloch Hal News PASNI: A Baloch magazine journalist in the conflict-stricken Balochistan was “kidnapped” allegedly by the state intelligence agencies while traveling from the provincial capital, Quetta, to his native Turbat District, family sources said. According to the details, Mohammad Ilyas Nazar, a young journalist in his 20s who is affiliated with Balochi language [...]
Balochistan Chief Minister Narrowly Escapes Suicide Attack
The Baloch Hal QUETTA: Chief Minister of Balochistan Nawab Mohammad Aslam Raisani narrowly escaped a suicide attack on Wednesday morning which killed the suicide attacker who struck CM’s convoy while nine people, including four security guards, were injured in the attack, police said. The attack took place a week after a similar attempt to kill [...]
BNP Announces 10-day Mourning Against Turbat Killings
The Baloch Hal News QUETTA: The Balochistan National Party (BNP) staged a protest demonstration in front of the Quetta Press Club condemning the killing of its activists in Turbat District and billed it as a “deliberate and preplanned action” against BNP leaders and workers in order to eliminate them from the political scene. They shouted [...]
Six, Including Cop, Killed in Turbat Fire Exchange
The Baloch Hal News TURBAT/QUETTA: At least six people, including two cousins of BNP president Sardar Akhtar Mengal, were killed during a fierce exchange of fire between security forces and the residents of a house raided by the Frontier Crops in Turbat on Wednesday. According to a press release issued by the Frontier Corps (FC), [...]
WIKILEAKS: Iran ‘Losing Effective Control’ of Sistan-Balochistan
Iran faces increased ethnic unrest in one of its southeastern provinces, mirroring similar trouble in neighboring Pakistan, U.S. diplomats in Azerbaijan reported in a cable disclosed by the website WikiLeaks this week. A rail line connecting Iran and Pakistan “has recently been repeatedly subject to rocket attacks and other disruption” by tribes in Sistan-Balochistan province, [...]
WIKILEAKS: Bramdagh Bugti Not a Terrorist: President Karzai
By Declan Walsh in Islamabad A tribesman loyal to the Bugti clan, leaders of an insurgency seeking autonomy for Balochistan Tribesmen loyal to the Bugti clan which is seeking autonomy for the Pakistani province of Balochistan. WikiLeaks cables show Afghanistan has been sheltering their leader Brahamdagh Bugti. Afghanistan’s president, Hamid Karzai, has been sheltering a [...]
BLA Says Assassination Attempt on Governor “Reaction” to Activists’ Killings
The Baloch Hal News QUETTA: A banned underground organization, the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), has accepted responsibility for yesterday’s assassination attempt on the life of Balochistan governor Nawab Zulfiqar Ali Magsi by trying to blow up his official convoy on its way from Kalat to Quetta. Azad Baloch, a spokesman for the underground organization which [...]