Free Balochistan shall foil ISI plans to talibanize Afghanistan & Pakistan.

Quotes by Samunder Askani Baloch, a prominent Baloch freedom activist.

"Free Balochistn shall not only pave way for peace & prosperity in South Asia, open a corridor to Afghanistn and the Central Asian Countries but also, free Balochistan is the totall defeat to ISI efforts to talibanize Afghnistan and Pakistan. If this burning question is ignored to-day, the democrtic world community shall be loosers in the history of men-kind in foreseeble period."

Needs surgical strikes against Pakistan to save the lives of innocent Baloochs

Bodies of two abducted Baloch found

Occupied Balochistan: Pakistan has been continuously disappearing and killing Baloch freedom loving political activists from past ten years but it has intensified the kill and dump policy from past two years. Bodies of two more enforced-disappeared Baloch youth have been found dumped in Murgaap area of Mand Balochistan on Thursday (06/10/2011).

The latest victims of state security forces genocidal policy have been identified as Kareem Jan Baloch S/o Muhammad Hassan was abducted from Tump district Kech on 8 of August 2011 and Arfath Baloch S/o Ibrahim Baloch abducted from Pasni cross on 23 September 2011.
Their tortured and bullet-ridden bodies were found near Murgaap earlier today (Thursday). It must be noted that Muraap has become the “Killing Field” Balochistan for occupying Pakistani forces as they often dump the bodies of Baloch missing persons after killing them under-custody. Arafat Baloch was a student of Turbat Degree College he has been abducted along with two other friends, Zahoor Baloch and Musadiq Baloch, whose were released after few days. They are students of Balochistan Residential College Turbat. Karim Jan Baloch was a political and social activist and he was also cousin of Banuk Karima Baloch, the Central Chairperson of Baloch Students Organization Azad.

In an appeal published on their official website, the BSO –Azad has urged the International Human Rights Organisations to take notice of Pakistani army’s atrocities against Baloch people and to play their role to prevent the kill and dump of the unarmed political workers and students by state functionaries.
Source: Baloch Warna

The key to curb Pakistani terrorism in Afghanistan is .....free Balochistan.

Talibani-ISI acid attacks on Baloch female School teachers in Balochistan.

ISI fanatics acid attack on four Baloch female school teachers in Quetta

 

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(September 12, Islamabad, Sri Lanka Guardian) Pakistani fanatic intelligence agencies ISI and MI third time acid attack on Baloch women in order to spread panic among the Baloch female teachers and women who are playing a vital role in Balochistan’s independence movement. Four female Baloch teachers of a private school were attacked with acid by unknown culprits in Killi Alam area of Saryab here on Saturday. According to local police officer Malik Arshad, the female teachers were sitting in a van outside their school in Killi Alam on Saryab Road when two men on motorbikes hurled acid and fled from the scene.

Disclosure of Paki Military stray-dogs atrocities in Balochistan.

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Join in the Protest and Appeal to International Community for Intervention against Pakistan’s Atrocities against Baloch People in Balochistan

 

In front of USA Embassy, Grosvenor Square London

Sunday 31 July 2011, 2-5 pm

(Nearest underground: Marble Arch and Bond Street)

·        In last six months, Pakistani agencies have thrown more than 200 mutilated bodies of Baloch political activists, writers. journalists, academics, intellectuals and human rights activists

·        In July alone, until 23 July, 22 mutilated bodies of Baloch people have been found

·        A brutal army operation is continuing in Balochistan since 2004

·        Baloch & Sindhi leaders have been target killed, arrested and humiliated since then

·        Eight thousand Balochs and scores of Sindhi people are missing

·        Pakistan is not listening to international human rights organisations, human rights and civil society organisations in Pakistan and Pakistan’s own supreme court to stop the killing of Baloch people

·        Only international community’s effective intervention could save the Baloch people from one of the worst massacre in their history     

Organisers:

Baloch Human Rights Council UK, Balochistan Liberation Organisation,

World Sindhi Congress

Contacts:

Samad Baloch 07825087032, Sultan Mahar 07862207829

                        Masood Sardarzai 0780900500,Mir Hussain 07506696954

For more details Please view the attached flyer Or click the links below,

http://balochistanhcr.blogspot.com/2011/07/protest-rally-in-front-of-us-embassy-in.html

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Baloch-Human-Rights-Council/153593348036053

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The long-duel for "free Balochistan."

July 15: Martyr’s day of Balochistan

 

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No retreat! No Surrender! No compromise!

Pakistani ISI is slaying Balochs to freighten NATO forces in Afghanistan.

Central leader of BRP

Sangat Sana Baloch

 Martyred

JUL 6, 2011

Posted by thebalochpost

Mastung:

Pakistani Occupied Balochistan. 

6^th July 2011,

 

 Mutilated dead body of former voice

 chairman of Baloch Students Organization (Azad)

 and Central leader of Balochistan Republican

Party (BRP) has been found in Mastung some

 40 km from capital city ofBalochistan. According

 to the local sources and Vsh TV, a Balochi News

 Channel that mutilated and bullet-riddled dead

 body of Sangat Sana Baloch has been recovered

in Mastung Balochistan.

 

Sangat Sana Baloch had been abducted on

December 7, 2009, when he was going to Bolan

along with his college when personnel of government

 agencies whisked them away at Kolpure area

and shifted them to unknown location,
Pakistani government Intelligence agencies

 are alleged to abduct him from Kolpure area

 of Bolan district some 50 kilometres away from

Balochistan capital, Quetta.

 

The martyrdom of Sangat Sana Baloch is

continued “Kill and dump” policy of Pakistani

 Intelligence agencies .

 

Prior to this, according to the Baloch National

 Voice,  158 dead bodies of abducted Balochs have

 been recovered in Baloch districts of Balochistan,

who all were firstly abducted and later they were

kill edand dumped.

 

Pakistani Military`s ISI is behind the

brutal extra-judicial killing of Balochs

backed by Pakistani Establishment and

silence of world community.

 

http://thebalochpost.wordpress.com/2011/07/06/central-leader-of-brp-sangat-sana-baloch-martyred/

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U.S. ally -Pakistan- kills secular Balochs to faciliate Quetta Shura to controll Balochistan.

Occupied Balochis- tan, 1 July 2011: Baloch patriot and  pro-liberation leader Abdul Ghaffar Langov was killed under- custody by Pakistani security  forces, his bullet-riddled and mutilated dead body was recovered today in Gadani area of district Lasbela, Balochistan. Mr. Ghaffar Langove Baloch was abducted by Pakistani security  agencies from Karachi on 11 December 2009, from hospital where his wife was admitted. Till his extra judicial murder his whereabouts remained unknown. He had no access to legal representation neither was he family  allowed to meet him.

Paki Military Cannibals killed a Baloch Student Leader, Mr. Shafi Baloch.

Central leader of BSO-Azaad Shafi Baloch killed in Pakistani custody

Occupied Balochistan – June 23: Central leader of the Baloch Students Organization (BSO-Azad), Mr. Shafi Baloch’s mutilated dead body has been found from Bolan area and shifted to his ancestral town of Sibbi for burial. Shafi Baloch was abducted by Pakistani intelligence agencies on Friday June 17th 2011 near Lakhpass area of Mastung district.

Continue reading →

http://baluchsarmachar.wordpress.com/2011/06/23/central-leader-of-bso-azaad-shafi-baloch-killed-in-pakistani-custody/

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Professor Saba Dashtiyari, the candle of Baloch Freedom

Vancouver, June 12, 2011 – Baloch Human Rights Council (Canada) and the International Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (Canada) joined hands with the secular and democratic representatives of the local communities and the provincial parliament to pay tributes to the martyred professor of Balochistan University, Prof. Saba Dashtyari and investigative journalist Saleem Shahzad at Holland Park, Surrey, British Columbia.

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http://baluchsarmachar.wordpress.com/2011/06/14/candle-light-vigil-in-the-memory-of-prof-saba-dashtyari-and-saleem-shehzad-in-canada/

Pakistan`s Secret War.....Balochi freedom.

Pakistan's 'secret' war

 

Baloch insurgents in the rugged mountains of Pakistan.

Armed groups of Balochs in southwest Pakistan are gaining momentum at a critical point for the country's future. Deutsche Welle looks at the phenomenon which presents yet another problem in the troubled region.

 

A province marked by floods and images of burned-out NATO tankers, Balochistan is the land of the Baloch, who today see their country in southwest Asia divided by the borders of Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Balochistan is the size of France and boasts enormous reserves of gas, gold and copper, as well as untapped sources of oil and uranium. The exploitation of these natural resources in combination with repressive and discriminatory state-run policies have led to armed uprisings in the region.

In his book "Descent into Chaos," best-selling writer and renowned Afghanistan commentator, Ahmed Rashid, says that the Baloch have instigated five insurgent uprisings to date. These insurgents take shelter in the rugged mountains of southern Pakistan and across the border, in Afghanistan.

Karachi, the Capital city of Sindh, becamno-go area for Sindhis......!!!!

The Capital-city of Sindh, Karachi, has become a no-go area
for Sindhis, the sons of the soil of Sindh. What is going on in
Pakistan? Is Pakistan occupied by Urdo-speakers of U.P. and
C.P. and Bihar of India? Why the Dugga-panjabis are following
 Pashtun Mullas and Pakistan`s  Brahamins - Urdoistanis- and 
 while keeping their distance from their own Panjabis who are
Balochs and rejecting Sindhis, their near neighbours?

SNP man gunned down in Korangi

By Our Staff Reporter | From the Newspaper

(18 hours ago) Today

KARACHI, June 7: Tension gripped parts of Korangi on Tuesday after the early morning killing of a young activist of the Sindh National Party (SNP) in an armed attack that left another worker badly wounded, police said.
They said Shahzado Banglani, who was in his late-20s, was targeted by armed motorcyclists in Korangi 1 ½ near R Check Post, where he was waiting for a bus with his friend Pappu Bajkani.

Saba Dashtiyari, the Baloch who refused to bargain on Balochistan`s Freedom.

The most gallent Baloch,

Professer Saba Dashtiyari,

 led the

Baloch nation to throw the yoke of

slavery and refused to bargain on

the freedom of Balochistan.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/multimedia

The blood-thirsty Vampires of Paki Military killed a Baloch Professor.

The Pro-talibani Pakistani Military and the most dreadful Paki ISI
has killed Mr. Saba Dashtayari, the Baloch Professor, intellectual,
writer and the man whose heart was bleeding due to  13000 Balochs
who were arrested by Paki Military, target killing of prominent Baloch
Journalists, lawyers,writers, human right activists and above of all
the extra-judicial killing of Balochs whose blood was sucked by the
Vampires of ISI in the dark cells of Pakistani Military.

The neighbouring countries of Pakistan and the whole world is paying
the price for their silence about the genocide of Balochs. The Vampires
of  Pro-talibani Military are crossing the borders of humanity.

The elites of Pakistan are silence as the Paki Military Corporation is
struggling to increase their Industrial and commercial units in
Balochistan by eliminating the secular Balochs. .... But they shall
pay a heavy price for their silence alongwith others who encourge
the Vampires of 21st Century i.e. Pro-talibani Paki Military and
their dreaded ISI.

Prof. Saba Dashtyari Baloch in Quetta

Occupied Balochistan – June 01: Pakistan Military death squad has target killed Renowned Baloch scholar, writer and poet Professor Saba Dashtyari at Sariab Road, Quetta Balochistan.

Continue reading →

https://baluchsarmachar.wordpress.com/2011/06/01/pakistan-military-death-squad-target-killed-prof-saba-dashtyari-baloch-in-quetta/

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Free Balochistan......A nuclear free-zone.

Samachar News Item Condemning the Paki nuclear tests on Baloch soil.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2zyX0gVrqo
 

A Baloch youth`s description of the atrocities of Paki ISI.

Please listen  the following link in which and to share with the members of this group and ask you to forward it to as many groups and people as possible. It is really heart-rending. I can't stop thinking of this small young boy who feels his life is finished now. He can't go to school, can't  go out for shopping, can't go to his home, and literally lives like a dead body. How many more Baloch youth are passing through the same mental torture whom about we know nothing. It is really painful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zSCZAr3PGA&feature=related

Balochistan, a corridor for logistic supplies to NATO forces in Afghanistan.

The ancient castle of the ruler of Kech Makuran,

Baluchistan (occupied by Pakistn)

        Balochistan, a Corridor to NATO logistic supplies to Afghanistan.

 

         Balochs, all over the world, condemn the black-mailing double-policy of Pakistani Military, ISI and their establishment towards NATO/ISAF

forces on the question of the supply of logistic supplies for NATO forces

in Afghanistan.

 

         To protect their assets - Talibans & Al-quida - from drone attacks,

the Pakistani Military through their so-called Parliament  threatens to cut the supply line of logistic supplies for NATO forces in Afghanistan

through Pakistan.

 

         On this critical movement, Baloch wholeheartly offer NATO forces

to open a corridor of Balochistan with the disposal of  ports of  Gwader to Ormara to U.S. Navy. For the time being, District Makuran and Khaaran

should be controlled by NATO forces, declaring them as `no fly-zone`  for

Pakistan Air-force for the safty of convoyes.

 

The protection of the lorries  carrying supplies for NATO forces,  should be entrusted to Baloch rebel forces including BLA, BLF,  Lashkare Baloch and others from Gwader/Ormara through Balochistan till Durrand line.

Pro-talibani Pakistani Army killed more Five abducted Balochs.

World watches in silence as Pakistan continues Baloch mass killings, five more bodies found in Balochistan on 2011/5/12 0:00:00 (356 reads) Occupied Balochistan: Five more decomposed, mutilated and bullet-riddled bodies of Baloch missing persons, including a teacher, were found from Panjgur, Khuzdar and the Quetta, the capital of Balochistan, on Wednesday ending the mysteries of their families who have been on hunger strike for months in Islamabad, Karachi and Quetta. As many as 149 dead bodies of Baloch missing persons or political opponents had so far been found for the past nine months. Panjgur police recovered three decomposed and mutilated bodies dumped in ditch near a seasonal river.

May-hem Call... "Balochistan needs International intervention".

Balochistan international conference demands international
intervention in Balochistan.

WASHINGTON DC--April 30, 2011-- The First Balochistan International conference, organized by Baloch Society of North America at Carnegie Endowment for Int'l Peace in Washington DC, asked UN, USA and the International community to immediately intervene in Balochistan to save the lives of Baloch people in occupied Balochistan, who are in great danger under the Pakistani and Iranian illegal occupation.


The conference was attended by may Baloch leaders, international law experts, eminent scholars and analysts from all over the world. Opening the conference, Dr. Wahid Baloch, the president of Baloch Society of North America,  condemned the Pakistani and Iranian illegal non-ending occupation of Balochistan and asked International community to immediately intervene in Balochistan as Baloch lives are in grave danger from the occupying forces. "We are having this conference in a time when Baloch people are collecting the bullet riddled tortured dead bodies of their love ones every day " , Dr. Baloch said.

Again Paki Butcher Establishment killed two Baloch missing persons.

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Two more Baloch missing person bullet-riddled bodies found near Ormada Balochistan

 

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Occupied Balochistan – April 28: Two more bullet-riddled bodies of Baloch missing persons were found in Makran Coastal Highway near Ormada Balochistan on Thursday morning. The bodies were taken to the local hospital Ormada, where they were identified as Siddique Eido Baloch and Yousaf Baloch. Siddique Eido Baloch was Balochistan based Journalist and member of Human Right Commission of Pakistan. Yousaf Baloch is a tailor master in Pasni. Both are abducted in main Gwadar road Pasni by Pakistani military intelligence on December 21, 2010. According to a press release issued by HRCP’s Balochistan chapter, Siddique Eido Baloch, along with his companion, Yousaf Baloch, was on his way home to Pasni after appearing in a court in Gwadar when two vehicles, usually in the use of secret agencies, intercepted them on the main Gwadar Road of Pasni. The personnel bundled both of them into the vehicle and sped away. As many as 150 bullet-riddled bodies of Baloch political opponents and students have so far been recovered during the past eight months from different parts of the province. They were all young and mostly students, who were picked and killed.

Vampire of ISI sucked the blood of five Balochs.

5 bullet-riddled bodies found in Balochistan

Updated at 12:10 PST Monday, April 25, 2011

 

QUETTA: The Khuzdar police found three-bullet riddled bodies in an area on Monday morning. “The police received information about lying of three bullet-riddled bodies in Zidee area of Khuzdar district", police told reporters. The bodies were taken into custody and shifted to Khuzdar Civil Hospital.

The roaring Call of Nawab Akber Khan Bugti, the great !!!

"The roaring Call of  Nawab Akber Khan Bugti. 

There comes a cry, like thunder's sound Like thousands of swords . . . striking around, The Sound echoed, in the Towns around In the valleys, Mountains and Villages around.   Lo!! The black clouds are lowering down on Sindh & Baluchistan' s plains and Towns, Listen!! roaring guides of Nawab Akber Bugti Khan Sindh & Balochistan' s...crown and Lion.   "Oh Sindh-o-Balochistan , Sistan-O-Khorasan The land, the rivers, the coast of Mekuran, The men, women and the children of my beloved land Who will be the Protecter of Sindh & Balochistan? "   Be firm, conscious and struggle not lonely United & faithfully, protect your land bravely, Forget it not . . . for a while!! Keep it in your conscious minds "That for thousands of years our forefather's land is threatened, now by a Robber's band."   As long as the cruelty in the land runs And the Sindhians arms, takes the Guns. Balochs, Sindhis and their friends to their duty go Sindh and Balochistan are kept free from the foe.   Boldly striking, defeating & expelling the Fascism Rises the sun of Holy Freedom, The long duel from Sindh to Sistan Happily ends to free 'Sindh-Balochistan' . .............................................................. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qGrJsWHcUw&feature=share

Sindhi & Baloch leaders face death by MI death-squads while ISI engages with CIA.

Breaking Up of Pakistan is good for the Sovereignity of Balochistan.

	belaar baloch <belaar3@yahoo.com>

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In dealing with fractured states, particularly those of which are torn apart by ethno-national conflicts, the society of states often overlooks a fundamental issue, the one that lies at the root of such conflicts: Arbitrary nature of international boundaries.

Drawn by war victors and colonial powers in South Asia, Middle East and Africa, in a protracted period beginning in the wake of the First World War up until the end of the decolonisation of 1960s, these artificial boundaries have remained to be one of the major sources of intra-state violence – not to mention various inter-state border wars. Indeed, these boundaries are not social but political constructs; they do not reflect cultural, national and historical realities.

And yet, ironically, they are deemed essential for maintenance of order and stability.

What was the prime motive that drove the European powers to fiddle with centuries-old cultural frontiers is an inquisitive subject that, of course, requires thorough investigation. What became clear, however, in the wake of decolonisation was that both former colonial powers of Europe and the successor states in Africa and Asia were seen determined to defend these unjust arrangements.  

In spite of their mutual differences on a host of international issues, such as trade and aid imbalances as well as equal representation in international institutions, both groups of states were, nonetheless, united in preservation of newly established status quo ante: The present international boundaries must remain intact.

Conscious of their legally protected status within international law as “sovereign entities,” the elite of each newly independent state embarked on an aggressive path to create a unitary state, often crushing not only the customs and traditions of small nationalities but also, in some cases, pushing for new settlements in their territories in order to change the demographic facts in the pretext of developments and economic progress. Xingjian in China and Balochistan in Iran and Pakistan are obvious cases in this regard.

Faced with criticism on the foreign front, a series of resolutions were passed by these quasi states (to borrow a term from Robert Jackson) during the 1970s in UN General Assembly, soon, followed by another set of resolutions from African Union: defending the legal norm of non-interference in the domestic affairs of sovereign states. When questions raised by the former colonial powers over their repressive treatment of minority groups, the leadership of quasi states were quick to invoke international legal norms. Hence, any criticism on their abusive conducts was tantamount to intervention in state sovereignty.

But, as the Cold War came to a dramatic end, so did the myth of inviolability of international borders. From the breakup of Yugoslavia in early 1990s to the recent independence of South Sudan, and the ongoing crisis in Libya, it has increasingly become clear that the legal norms, such as non-interference and respect of state sovereignty, are not applicable when it comes to abusive behaviour of dominant groups, rogue armies or regimes within the quasi states. Sovereignty, indeed, comes with responsibilities.

Release Mr. Muzafar Bhutto, the Sindhi freedom fighter.

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To raise the voice for the release of Muzafar Bhutto,Secretary,JSMM

Muzaffar Bhutto is General Secretary of Jeay Sindh Muttaheda Mahaz (JSMM), a political party advocating greater autonomy for the province of Sindh from Pakistan. He was travelling in his car on 25 February 2011 with his wife and younger brother, when they were stopped by around twenty men in plain clothes who came out of unmarked cars and were escorted by a number of police waiting at the area of Saeedabad Tool plaza in Hyderabad city of Sindh province.

Detainees & the" death of due process" in Pakistan.

Detainees and the death of due process in Pakistan

By Mehlaqa Samdani, April 8, 2011 Friday, April 8, 2011 - 12:04 PM Share

At the start of his presidency, President Barack Obama outlined his vision for Pakistan and Afghanistan in a speech that emphasized the need for "security that can only come through the rule of law" and stressed that "a campaign against extremism cannot be won with bullets and bombs alone."  Yet for hundreds of Pakistanis the subsequent campaign launched jointly by the Pakistani and American governments has been used as a pretext by the Pakistani government to pursue its own counterterrorism agenda, which has delivered nothing but bullets and bombs.

"With the death of a language, the nations are extinguished from the surface of the earth",said HeyerBiyaar Marri Baloch.

 "If yours limbs are cut, you become a disable person, if you loose your eye-sight you become blind,
you can survive even if you loss the  five senses. If you die, your nation lives further but if you have lost your
language, your nation shall be extinquished from the surface of the earth."..........Khan  Jan  Baloch.

Great speech of Baloch Leader waja,Hayrbyar Marri on First Baloch Culture  and Language Conference held on 3rd April 2011 at London.

 

visit: http://balochculturalsociety.blogspot.com/

BALOCHISTAN : A Slaughterhouse of Pakistan`s military butchers..

BALOCHISTAN : A perfect Slaughterhouse of Pakistan’s military butchers

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(April 12, Karachi, Sri Lanka Guardian) The Baloch land once was a free and sovereign country, on August 11,1947,the British acceded control of Balochistan to the ruler of Balochistan, Mir Ahmad Yar Khan - the Khan of Kalat. The Khan immediately declared the independence of Balochistan, and Mohammad Ali Jinnah signed the proclamation of Balochistan’s sovereignty under the Khan.

The New York Times reported on August 12, 1947: “Under the agreement, Pakistan recognizes Kalat as an independent sovereign state with a status different from that of the Indian States. An announcement from New Delhi said that Kalat, Moslem State in Baluchistan, has reached an agreement with Pakistan for free flow of communications and commerce, and would negotiate for decisions on defense, external affairs and communications.” The next day, the NY Times even printed a map of the world showing Balochistan as a fully independent country.

United States is ridding on the back of fail horse in South Asia.

Again, Pakistani Army killed two Balochs - Ghulam Qadir s/o Waris
and Ghulam Qadir s/o Shermohd -
in Panjgur, Mekuran, Balochistan.
on 9th April, 2011.

Balochs regard  the west world, specially U.K, European Union and United States as their allies and hope,  to obtain their civil rights and freedom but none of them assist Balochs diplomatically, financially and militarily. While Pakistani ISI is endeavouring to impose Talibanisation in Balochistan by killing secular Balochs and encourging Talibani elements in Balochistan.

The Baloch who refused to accept the life of Slavery!!!

An interview with Dr. Allah Nazar
April 2011
The policy makers of the West must know that we are a peace-loving and secular people, and a free Balochistan is in the best interest of all those countries that love, and fight to maintain, peace — not only in the region but in the whole world.

Dr. Allah Nazar

You’ve probably never heard of Balochistan. A resource rich province of Pakistan wedged between Afghanistan and Iran, it is an area of great geo-political importance that includes the port of Gwadar, which many eye as a profitable road to China and Central Asia. Balochistan is also the site of what historian Selig Harrison has called “a slow motion genocide” of the Baloch people.

Despite its strategic importance and harrowing human rights scandals, however, the region and its problems go virtually unreported because Pakistani authorities rarely grant journalists permission to travel beyond the capital of Quetta and its intelligence agencies routinely monitor and mistreat those journalists who do enter the province.