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100 arrested in Balochistan
Police have arrested around 100 suspects people from Quetta and other
areas of the province on Sunday in connection with rocket attack in Quetta
that claimed one live and injuring three others. 29.5.06 |
Protests against violation of Human rights
Women and children, under the auspices of the Human Rights Commission of
Pakistan, on Sunday took out a procession against extra-judicial killings,
illegal arrests of political workers and abduction of children. Protesters
assembled outside the press club where speakers called upon the government
to stop human rights violations in Balochistan. 29.5.06 |
Five killed including a woman, ten injured rocket attacks in Balochistan
Over 30 rockets were fired in various parts of Balochistan on Saturday,
killing one woman and injuring three other people in the capital. Mean
while, Baloch insurgents fired 26 rockets at army check posts in Kohlu
Dera Bugti and Harnai area. Killing four FC personnel and wounding seven.
A spokesman of Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) Merak Baloch claimed
responsibility for the attacks and said that the rockets had been fired to
protest against nuclear tests conducted in the province by the government
on May 28, 1998. 28.5.06 |
Six security personnel killed in Dera Bugti clashes, 29 rocket attacks
Six security personnel were killed and eight others were seriously injured
in clashes with Baloch insurgents in volatile Dera Bugti are on Saturday.
Meanwhile, a huge fire erupted when some insurgents blown up two gas
pipelines of 16-inch and 30-inch diameter near the Goth Mazari in the
Punjab-Balochistan border on Friday. 28.5.06 |
Selig Harrison says no US aid to Pakistan till it stops military activity
in Baluchistan
By Priscilla Huff, Washington: Noted American expert on South Asian
Affairs, Selig Harrison, has urged the Bush Administration to withhold
U.S. aid to Islamabad until Pakistan ceases military activity in
Baluchistan. 27.5.06 |
Fire breaks out in Sui after pipeline blasts, 60 shops burnt
A huge fire broke out in Sui after two pipelines supplying gas to the Sui
plant exploded on Friday night. Another pipeline was blown up near the
Goth Mazari in the Punjab-Balochistan border area suspending supply of gas
to some parts of Punjab, official sources said. A shop was destroyed in a
hand-grenade attack in the Nushki township, some 160 km west of here, on
late Thursday night. According to another report, some people fired three
rockets in the Loti gas field area, but the rockets exploded in an open
place. Police also found three rockets in the industrial town of Hub.
27.5.06 |
Two soldiers killed and one injured in landmine blast, several killed and
injured in attack
Two soldiers were killed and one seriously injured when their vehicle ran
over a landmine near Lehri in Sibi district. Baloch Guerrillas FC post,
several deaths and casualties but exact details not known, on Thursday.
Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) claimed responsibility for the attacks.
26.5.06 |
Senator Sana Baloch lashes out at Balochistan policy
The federal government was dealing with the Baloch problem as a fight
against the enemy rather than redressing genuine grievances of the people
of Balochistan, Senator Sanaullah Baloch told a seminar in Washington on
Thursday. Selig Harrison, of the Washington Centre for International
Policy and Frederic Grare of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
also talked about Balochistan. Dawn.com 26.5.06 |
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New Songs uploaded
23.5.06 |
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Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) Blows up an Army Truck Video Clip
22.5.06 |
Several casualties four FC post hit one totally destroyed, in Dera Bugti
Baloch Guerrillas attacked and destroyed a Frontier Corps (FC) check post,
at least eight rockets and hundreds of automatic machinegun fire was heard
in Dera Bugti. Several other FC check posts came under rocket and
machinegun attacks in Loti, Pir Koh and Chashma on Saturday. 21.5.06 |
Two Main gas pipeline blown up, supply to Punjab cut
Baloch Guerrillas planted high explosive under two 24-inch diameter
pipeline supplying gas to Punjab and blew it up in the Goh area, 10km from
Sui town, on Friday. Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) claimed responsibility
for the attack. 20.5.06 |
A soldier and 2 policemen killed 6 injured, Gas pipeline blown up
Baloch insurgent’s blowup a gas supplying pipeline to Sui gas plant from
Loti gas wells. Two policemen were killed in an attack on a police
check-post in Jaffarabad district, two bombs exploded in Mach and a
landmine exploded in the Nal area of Kahan, killing one soldiers and
injuring three others, on Wednesday. BLA claimed responsibility for the
attacks. 18.5.06 |
Blocking access to Baloch websites by PTA strongly condemned
It is worth mentioning, on one hand Musharraf and other authorities
endlessly keep on repeating that, electronic and print media is
unregulated, freedom of speech and democracy is restored in Pakistan. But
on the other hand let alone the print media in Pakistan, even the
electronic media, websites and other means of communications are under
strict State control. Press Release By Balochvoice.com 16.5.06 |
Six army men killed 8 injured, three pylons blown up near Quetta
Three pylons of a 132kv double-circuit power transmission line were blown
up in the Mainghundi area, some 25km off here, in another incidence,
Baloch Guerrillas launched an attack army camp in Gohri Nala at least 6
army personnel were killed, 8 wounded. in the attack. Meanwhile at least
19 rockets were fired on check posts in the Dear Bugti district early on
Monday morning. BLA claimed responsibility for the attacks. 16.5.06 |
Anti-terrorist police force in Quetta attacked: Six killed, 13 injured
Six policemen of the Anti-Terrorist Force were killed and 13 others
injured, six of them seriously, in five powerful explosions which rocked
the firing range of the Police Training College near the eastern bypass
area, here on Thursday. A spokesman BLA claimed the responsibility.
12.5.06 |
Blast damages Gwadar police station wall
A powerful bomb blast damaged a wall of a police station in Gwadar on
Saturday night. Another explosion occurred in a bungalow in the Quetta
cantonment area, close to the State Bank building in the Quetta
cantonment. 6.5.06 |
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Letter from Malcolm Smart Director Middle Amnesty International to His
Excellency Major-General Shaikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Amnesty
International urgently seeks from Your Excellency clarification of the
reasons for the arrest and continuing detention of Gazain Marri as well as
his place of detention. We also seek assurances that he is being treated
humanely and urge that he be given access to a lawyer of his own choosing
and released unless charged with a recognizable criminal offence. 4.5.06 |
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Pakistani air force jets bombing Kahan and surrounding areas
Exclusive footage of Balochvoice 1.5.06 |
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