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BLF frees 4 Punjab workers for work on military sites in Awaran

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BLF frees 4 Punjab workers for work on military sites in Awaran

The Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF), a prominent Baloch freedom fighter group, has claimed responsibility for detaining four residents of Pakistan’s Punjab province, who were working on military installations in Awaran district of Pak-occupied-Balochistan.

In a statement, the BLF stated that their “Sarmachars” (freedom fighters) arrested the four workers on January 28, while they were engaged in construction activities on military sites in Awaran. However, the freedom fighter group announced that the detained workers were released on February 14, 2024, on humanitarian reasons.

The BLF said that they have repeatedly cautioned against the exploitation projects of the occupying Army and the mobile tower companies utilized by the Army, as they are the legitimate targets.

The freedom fighter group has long opposed development projects in Pak-occupied-Balochistan, as the Army is exploiting the region’s resources and using infrastructure initiatives as a means to strengthen its military presence and control over the territory.

Balochistan, Pakistan’s largest but least populated province, has grappled with a long-running freedom struggle. The BLF have waged an armed struggle against the Army, for subjugation of the Baloch people and exploitation of the resource-rich region’s natural resources.

Muslim landlord brutalizes Hindu woman in Bahwalpur Pak (Punjab)

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Muslim landlord brutalizes Hindu woman in Bahwalpur Pak (Punjab)

In a shocking case highlighting the plight of minorities in Pakistan, a Hindu woman laborer was subjected to horrific brutality by her Muslim landlord and his accomplices in Bahwalpur city of Punjab province.

Reportedly, the woman had visited the landlord’s residence to request her pending wages. However, instead of receiving her salary, she was stripped naked, hung upside down, beaten, and gang-raped by the landlord and his henchmen.

This appalling incident is not an isolated case of violence against the Hindu community in Pakistan. Numerous cases have come to light where Hindu girls have been raped, abducted, killed, and forcibly converted to Islam. Minorities in the country face widespread marginalization, harassment, oppression, and threats, often being targeted with derogatory language and actions.

The systemic discrimination and lack of legal safeguards for minorities in Pakistan, where they often face violence, forced conversions, and lack of access to economic opportunities and social services.

As details of the Bahwalpur emerged, it has once again put a spotlight on the dire situation faced by religious minorities in Pakistan and the urgent need for reforms to ensure their safety and equal rights.

Students in occupied Gilgit-Baltistan protest over lack of education facilities

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Students in occupied Gilgit-Baltistan protest over lack of education facilities

In a display of courage and determination, residents of the Thang village in District Astore of Pakistan-occupied Gilgit-Baltistan have taken to the streets, protesting the lack of school facilities and teachers in the region.

Similar protests have erupted in other parts of the occupied territory, with students and parents alike demanding a resolution to the dire shortage of school teachers, which has left the region’s education system in shambles. Earlier, student protests emerged in Dadimal and Nagar, with parents joining their children to voice their concerns.

Occupied Gilgit-Baltistan has been dealing with a lack of basic infrastructure for ages, with frequent protests erupting across the region due to the issue. The main reason behind the Pak Army’s refusal to provide basic rights is its perception of the land and its people as foreign, leading to oppression and exploitation as the sole agenda that prevails.

Protesters have called upon the authorities to prioritize the appointment of teachers and the establishment of adequate school facilities to ensure the right to education for the region’s youth.

Paki Minister calls missing victims ‘terrorists’ in Gwadar incident

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Paki Minister calls missing victims ‘terrorists’ in Gwadar incident

Pak-occupied-Balochistan’s Interior Minister Ziaullah Langove has revealed the arrests of two individuals, Niaz s/o Abdullah and Bashir s/o Abdul Ghani, who were subjected to enforced disappearance by Pakistan Army from the coastal city of Gwadar. The minister leveled serious allegations against them, accusing them of being responsible for the killing of non-locals in an attack in Gwadar earlier this month.

According to the puppet authorities, both men belong to the Baloch pro-independence organization, the Baloch Liberation Army, as stated in a statement issued by the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD).

On the May 9, unidentified armed men attacked a residential quarter near the Fish Harbor Jetty in Gwadar, resulting in the deaths of 7 individuals on the spot and one person injured. The deceased and injured belonged to Khanewal district of Punjab province. No group had claimed responsibility for the attack.

In the aftermath of the attack, the Army launched a large-scale operation in Gwadar and surrounding areas, subjecting a large number of people to enforced disappearance and transferring them to unknown locations. It was during this crackdown that Niaz and Bashir were taken into custody from their homes on May 13 and transferred to an undisclosed location.

This latest incident has raised concerns among public circles regarding the fate of the two arrested youths. There are apprehensions that they might be killed in a fake encounter or subjected to enforced disappearance, a recurring issue in PoB.

Enforced Disappearance

In the past, after similar incidents in PoB, the Army have revealed the arrests of previously enforced disappeared persons, leveling serious allegations against them. Despite revealing arrests on multiple occasions, these individuals have often not been presented in courts or have been killed in custody.

Earlier this year, despite revealing the arrest of Balaach Moulabakhsh, who had previously been subjected to enforced disappearance by the forces in Turbat, he was killed in custody. In another case, on August 31, 2018, Aasif Baloch and Rashid Baloch were taken into custody from the famous picnic point Zangi Naur in Noshki and were later presented before the media in Quetta by the CTD, but they remain missing to date.

These statements show how shamelessly and audaciously these Army stooges frame the innocent Baloch individuals. The role and history of the CTD is laced with the blood of the Baloch community. They have enforced disappearances of victims, killed and dumped them, conducted raids, harassed and committed human rights violations anywhere and everywhere they can. They have inflicted all sorts of brutality known to humankind. Since the Pak Army forcefully occupied Balochistan in 1948, the resource-rich nation has gone to the dogs. The community is living in a nightmare that we can rarely imagine.

BLF attacks Pak Army convoy, kills four Pak soldiers in Kharan POB

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BLF attacks Pak Army convoy, kills four Pak soldiers in Kharan POB

The Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF), a prominent Baloch freedom fighter group, has claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on a Pak military convoy in the Kharan district of Pak-occupied-Balochistan province.

In a statement issued to the media, Major Gwahram Baloch, the spokesman for the BLF, said their freedom fighters targeted a vehicle in a convoy of the occupying Pak Army on the Gwash Road in Kharan city on May 31 around 1:30 pm. The vehicle was hit by a remote-controlled bomb blast, resulting in its complete destruction.

This blast killed four personnel on board, and several others were injured. Asserting their responsibility, the BLF spokesman warned that the freedom fighters’ attacks on the occupying forces would continue until the “complete liberation of the land”.

Balochistan, Pakistan’s largest but least populated province, has grappled with a long-running freedom struggle. Various Baloch freedom fighter groups, including the BLF, have waged an armed struggle against the Army, for subjugation of the Baloch people and exploitation of the resource-rich region’s natural resources.

Pak security forces arrest students peacefully protesting against land grab in POGB

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Pak security forces arrest students peacefully protesting against land grab in POGB

Tensions escalated in the Pakistan-occupied Gilgit-Baltistan region on Friday when security forces arrested several students for participating in a peaceful demonstration against the land grab in the name of promoting “green tourism.”

The arrests took place after students from Karakoram International University in Skardu held a symbolic protest walk in the city’s park on May 26. Among the arrested were Comrade Babar, Owais Ahmed and others. They voiced vehement opposition to the Pakistan Army’s attempts to seize control of forests, rest houses and other lands across Pak-occupied-Gilgit-Baltistan under the guise of environmental initiatives.

The students accused Pakistan military of trying to deprive locals of their land resources and make them landless and voiceless minorities in their own territory for corporate gains. The demonstration came after the POGB authorities recently leased out 20 guest houses and 16 forest nurseries to a private company favored by the Army.

Pak police randomly arrests PTM Coordinator Fateh Mohammad at midnight

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Pak police randomly arrests PTM Coordinator Fateh Mohammad at midnight

In the early hours of the morning, at around 1 a.m.,Pak police conducted a raid on the home of Fateh Mohammad Kakar, the PTM coordinator in Killa Saifullah. Kakar was arrested during this raid, an action that has been widely condemned as unjust and unconstitutional.

This incident is part of a broader pattern of oppression against the Pashtun community. Just days earlier, on May 4, the family of Wali Salam, a Pashtun man from North Waziristan, received his lifeless body. Salam had been forcibly disappeared three years ago and reportedly endured severe torture at the hands of the Pakistan Army. He ultimately succumbed to his injuries in an internment center.

Salam’s tragic death is not an isolated case. Numerous Pashtuns have reportedly faced similar fates, suffering abduction, torture, and other human rights abuses.

The Army is not only harboring terrorists in the region but also engaging in the abduction, torture, and rape of innocent Pashtuns. These actions are aimed at maintaining control over the region, perpetuating the deprivation of the Pashtun people, and exploiting their resources for monetary gain.

Balochistan Awami Party President’s convoy comes under attack in occupied Balochistan

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Balochistan Awami Party President’s convoy comes under attack in occupied Balochistan

Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) President Nawabzada Khalid Hussain Magsi’s convoy came under attack in Pakistan-occupied- Balochistan on Thursday, though he remained unharmed in the incident.

Reportedly, unidentified gunmen opened fire on the vehicle of Magsi, while he was traveling on the Notal Central Highway near Nasirabad town. Magsi was en route from the provincial capital Quetta to his hometown of Jhal Magsi when the attack occurred.

According to the Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Sibi, the dacoits from the riverine areas opened fire while trying to flee from the Levies personnel chasing them. As is often seen, the Army tries its best to fabricate stories to hide the truth about its struggles in the region.

Pakistan-occupied- Balochistan has experienced a long-running unrest because of the oppressive Army regime and therefore the demand for independence from Pakistan is very important as the cases and crisis of enforced disappearances, indiscriminate killings, kill and dump policy, raids, harassment & discrimination and lack of provincial autonomy has become a daily norm.

In these circumstances, pro-Army figures who are not only the puppets of the Pak ‘establishment’ but are also against Baloch community. Therefore, such attacks are not out of the ordinary. However, so far, no group has claimed responsibility for the attack on Magsi.

Muslim family beats and chains Christian sanitation worker for hours in Lahore

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Muslim family beats and chains Christian sanitation worker for hours in Lahore

In another disturbing case of violence against Pakistan’s marginalized Christian minority, a sanitation worker was brutally assaulted and left chained in the street for hours by a Muslim family angered over delayed garbage collection.

Yasir Masih, 35, was found severely beaten and shackled to a chair in the blistering heat in Lahore’s Gujjarpura neighborhood on Tuesday. His body was covered in bruises after being attacked with iron rods and repeatedly punched and kicked, according to his father-in-law Hussain Masih. 

The vicious assault occurred after Masih, a Christian employed by the city’s sanitation department, did not immediately clean the doorstep of Muhammad Khadim Hussain’s home as demanded. Masih explained he would complete the request after finishing his official street cleaning duties.

However, when Masih later arrived at Hussain’s residence, he was lured to the roof where Hussain, his son, and three others were waiting. They proceeded to violently beat him before shackling him to a chair out on the street.

“I found my son-in-law chained on a chair, his body was full of bruises”, recalled Hussain Masih.

Though still restrained, the bloodied victim managed to drag himself into the street where passersby eventually noticed and alerted his family, who had grown concerned over his absence from work that morning.  

Christians in Pakistan are often referred to as Chuhra (low caste), a pejorative term used for sanitation workers. They continue to suffer the same discrimination and are pushed to jobs seen as degrading. In Pakistan, road sweepers are mostly Christians and are referred to by other abusive slurs.

Recently, a Christian man was nearly lynched, looted and his shoe factory was set ablaze because he was accused of blasphemy. These deplorable incidents are just the latest example of the deeply-rooted discrimination, violence, and lack of basic rights faced by Pakistan’s Christian minority community. Such abuses, often borne from perceived insults to the Muslim majority, occur with little accountability.

Grenade attack on Pakistan’s Levies Force headquarters in POB

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Grenade attack on Pakistan’s Levies Force headquarters in POB

One person was injured on Wednesday when unknown armed men launched a grenade attack on the headquarters of the Levies paramilitary force in Mastung district of Pakistan-occupied Balochistan.

Reportedly, unidentified armed men lobbed a powerful hand grenade at the Levies headquarters in Road Tehsil area of Mastung before fleeing the scene. The grenade detonated with an intense blast, leaving at least one person wounded.

No group immediately claimed responsibility for the brazen attack. However, Pakistan-occupied-Balochistan has experienced simmering resentment against the Pak Army due to human rights abuses and atrocities committed against the ethnic Baloch community on a regular basis.

The Levies force is a key law enforcement body assisting Pakistan’s regular police and military in killing and harassing the Baloch in the name of maintaining security. The Pak Army has time and again damaged Pak-occupied-Balochistan either directly or with proxies. 

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