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April 2006 Headlines |
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Authorities block access to Baloch nationalist sites
(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has condemned a decision by the
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) on 25 April 2006 to block four
Baluch nationalist websites for carrying "misleading information." The
move comes two months after the PTA blocked access to 12 websites
displaying the controversial Mohammed cartoons. Source: Reporters Without
Borders (RSF) Date: 28 April 2006 |
Proof of
MK-82 bombs fired from Pakistani fighter Jets
Bombs fired from Pakistani fighter jets on to homes of Marri Baloch
people. Pictures clearly show the craters and parts of MK-82 bombs with
made in USA stamped on it. 14.4.06
More pictures added on 22.4.06 |
Trains from Quetta halted, main line bridge blown up
Baloch guerrillas people blew up a railway bridge in Balochistan on
Saturday, halting train services from Quetta. Trains from Quetta to
Punjab, the Chiltan Express, Balochistan Express, Jaffar Express and Bolan
Mail had stopped at various stations. 23.4.06 |
Railway bridge blown up once again
Baloch guerrillas on Friday blew up a big railway bridge on the Sibi-Harnai
section and destroyed a gas pipeline in Pir Koh. Official sources said
armed men had planted powerful bombs under the bridge No 5 in Babar-Kach
area and blew it up in the early hours. “The 150-foot-long bridge was
completely destroyed,” a senior official of Sibi administration said.
20.4.06 |
Two levies personnel killed
Some unidentified men opened fire on levies personnel, two levies shot
dead in the Awaran area on Wednesday. 19.4.06 |
Gas pipeline blown up near Mastung
Gas supply to vast areas of Mastung and Kalat districts was suspended
after a gas pipeline was blown up near Mastung, 55km off here, on Tuesday.
A member of a security agency was seriously injured when he stepped on a
landmine in the Pir Koh area near Sui in Dera Bugti district. Baloch
guerrillas (Parraries) fired rockets at a Frontier Constabulary checkpost
in Kohlu town. 18.4.06 |
Pir Koh gas plant pipeline blown up: Rockets fired on FC checkposts
Baloch Guerrilla blew up a pipeline of the Pir Koh gas plant, causing
suspension of gas supply for some time on Monday. At least 19 rockets were
fired on Frontier Corps checkposts in Sangsilla, Chashma and Goltrakri in
the Dera Bugti area on Monday. A heavy exchange of fire between security
forces and armed guerrilla was reported from Dera Bugti and adjoining
areas on Monday, claiming several lives. 17.4.06 |
Several army personnel killed and seriously wounded in attacks
Three personnel of the Frontier Corps were seriously injured when they
were trying to defuse a landmine in the Sangsilla area of Dera Bugti here
on Sunday. Meanwhile, armed men blew up a 220 KV power transformer
supplying electricity to the Mand township, situated along the
Pakistan-Iran border. Bomb blast in Khuzdar armed insurgents fired 15
rockets at an FC checkpost in Narigaj and Tandori area of Sibi. 16.4.06 |
One killed in shootout
One person was killed and a major of Frontier Corps was injured in an
exchange of fire between security forces and militants in Toba Kakari area
of Pishin district on Sunday. 16.4.06 |
Explosions rocked Quetta and rest of Balochistan
A powerful explosion rocked the city on Saturday night. Meanwhile, heavy
fighting was reported between security forces and armed insurgents
in the Chashma area in Dera Bugti. Rockets fired on an FC checkpost in the
Mand area in Turbat district near Iranian border. Meanwhile, a BLA
spokesman, Merak Baloch said that militants had decided not to attack
power supply lines in the province for the next 45 days. “No power supply
line will be attacked in the next 45 days,” he said on satellite phone.
15.4.06 |
Railway Bridge blown up again
Baloch Freedom Fighters on Friday blew up a railway bridge and track on
the Sibi-Harnai section near the Tandori area. Meanwhile, armed Baloch
guerrillas fired at least 20 rockets on various Frontier Corps check-posts
on Friday. Other reports said that Baloch guerrillas fired five rockets on
a check-post in the Mand area near the Iranian border. 14.4.06 |
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Balochistan’s problem cannot be resolved by banning BLA
Banning an
organization that does not seek the government permission to operate
hardly affect its activities. such organizations do not maintain offices
with addresses and telephone numbers duly recorded in telephone
directories, nor do they keep bank accounts under their own names. The
measures are more likely to be employed, to harass political opponents
accused of being “associated” with the outfit. Editorials from four
renowned news sites 11.4.06 |
Allied to the problem
At the end of a French delegation’s visit to Pakistan recently, the
Pakistan Foreign Office put out its usual statement. It referred to
Pakistan as an anchor of peace in the region and said that the leader of
the French delegation, former Premier Senator (Francois) Poncet, had
commended Pakistan’s role in promoting peace and stability. One does not
know if this is a reflection of Gaul indulgence, Pakistan’s continued
self-delusion or simply a Foreign Office sleight of hand. One thing it
definitely is, is being elastic with the truth.
Hindustantimes.com Vikram Sood
April 11, 2006 |
BNP activists block Karachi-Quetta highway
Balochistan National Party activists blocked the National Highway at
different places between Quetta and Karachi from Wednesday midnight till
Thursday afternoon to protest against the arrest of two guards and a
driver of party chief Akhtar Mengal in Karachi. Police resorted to aerial
firing, tear gas shelling and baton charge in the Sariab area here to
disperse the protestors who had burnt tyres to block the highway. Several
persons were injured in police action. 7.4.06 |
Six army personnel killed and five injured in Balochistan
Three army personnel, including two senior officers, were killed and two
injured in an armed attack on army vehicles on the RCD Highway in the Wadh
area, some 400kms south-east from here, on Friday evening. Meanwhile, in a
separate incidence three army personnel were killed in a landmine
explosion in the Pir Koh gas field area. Reports said some guerrillas also
destroyed a gas pipeline of well number 10 of the Loti gas field.7.4.06 |
Hub Gas pipeline blown up, clashes all over Balochistan
Gas supply to factories was disrupted after a gas pipeline in Hub, the
industrial town of Balochistan, was blown. Baloch Liberation Army (BLA)
claimed that there movement BLA was behind the gas pipeline blast and a
hand-grenade attack on the house of a police constable in Quetta. There
were fighting between security forces and Baloch insurgents in Kahan,
Karmo Wadh, Kohlu, Qambar Lango, Loti and Dera Bugti district areas up on
Thursday. 7.4.06 |
FC check posts attacks in Balochistan
Baloch Parraries (Guerrilla) attacks two Frontier Corps FC check posts
with rockets and heavy machinegun fire in Dera Bugti district on
Wednesday. 6.4.06 |
Guards and driver of Mengal arrested
A day-long siege of the Clifton residence of the chief of Balochistan
Nationalist Party (BNM), Sardar Akhtar Mengal, on Wednesday came to an end
at around midnight when law-enforcement agencies arrested his two guards
and a driver. 6.4.06 |
Bugti sets terms for talks with government
The Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP) chief, Nawab Akbar Bugti, has said that
without international guarantees the issue of Balochistan cannot be
resolved as the Balochs have no trust in rulers. Talking to newsmen here
on Wednesday night on satellite phone, he said that with the increase in
atrocities against the Baloch people the resistance was gaining momentum.
6.4.06 |
Seven solders killed and eleven injured in Balochistan
At least seven personnel of Frontier Corps were killed and 11 injured in
two landmine blasts in Loti and Ghori area of Dera Bugti district on
Monday and Tuesday, according to Nawab Akbar Bugti. The JWP chief said
that security forces had fired many rockets and mortar shells at his fort
in Dera Bugti, which was lying vacant for the last two months. Nawab Bugti
also termed recovery of arms and ammunition a “drama”. 5.4.06 |
Protesters in Quetta call for release of activists
Dozens of women and children staged a sit-in outside the assembly building
on Tuesday in protest against detention of Ali Asghar Bungulzai and other
Baloch activists. The protesters chanted slogans against the government
and intelligence agencies and called for immediate release of all
illegally detained Baloch activists. 5.4.06 |
Nawabzada Gazain Marri arrested in UAE on Musharraf request
Nawabzada Gazain Marri son of Nawab Khair Baksh Marri a Baloch Nationalist
leader was arrested a week ago in UAE (United Arab Emirates) on personal
request of Gen. Musharraf to the rulers of UAE. Musharraf has requested
UAE government to extradite Nawabzada Gazain Marri to Pakistan. 4.4.06 |
Operation not to weaken struggle, says BNP chief
Balochistan National Party Chairman Akhtar Mengal has said the Baloch
people will continue to struggle till the recognition of their right of
ownership of the resources of the province. Speaking at a public meeting
organised by his party at Mannan Chowk here on Sunday, he said the
military operation or arrests of political workers would neither weaken
the struggle for national rights nor force them to compromise the
principle of sovereignty. 3.4.06 |
In Remote Pakistan Province, a Civil War Festers
Explosions at gas pipelines and railroad tracks are common in this remote
desert region. Now, roadside bombs and artillery shells are, too. More
than 100 civilians have been killed in recent months, along with dozens of
government security forces, local residents and Pakistan's Human Rights
Commission say. By CARLOTTA GALL The New York Times |
Pakistan strife widening on another front
DERA BUGTI, Pakistan — Explosions at gas pipelines and railroad tracks are
common in this remote desert region. Now, roadside bombs and artillery
shells are, too. More than 100 civilians have been killed in recent
months, along with dozens of government security forces, according to
local residents and Pakistan's Human Rights Commission. By CARLOTTA GALL
The New York Times 2.4.06 |
Baloch crisis can plunge Pakistan into civil unrest
Balochistan has been described as a simmering cauldron on the verge of
spilling over its boiling contents, threatening to engulf Pakistan in a
civil unrest. Very different from the Taliban insurgency along the
mountainous and porous Pak-Afghan border, and the Shia-Sunni clashes that
erupts sporadically across Pakistani cities, the Baloch crisis is all
about the ethic rights and self-rule of the Baloch's, and the struggle
threatens to completely dwarf Pakistan’s other conflicts. New York Times
2.4.06 |
Negotiate or face radical youths, Bugti tells govt
Baloch leader Nawab Akbar has warned in an interview with an American
newspaper that “the government would be foolish not to negotiate with the
senior tribal leaders to settle the conflict in Balochistan”. He asserted:
“If we are removed from the scene, I can guarantee the government will
have a heck of a time from the younger generation, because they are more
extreme.” By Masood Haider Dawn.com 2.4.06 |
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