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FC soldier among six injured
http://www.dawn.com/2006/07/11/top10.htm
By Saleem Shahid
QUETTA, July 10: Six people, including a soldier of the Frontier Corps, were injured after a vehicle of the paramilitary force hit a landmine in the Sangsilla area of the Dera Bugti district on Monday.
The injured were identified as Munawar, the FC solider, and five civilians, Shahbaz Khan, Shakeel Ahmed, Gul Ahmed, Mohammad Anwar and Asmat Khan.
An attempt to blow up two electric pylons was reported from the Kohlu area, but the power supply was not affected.
Sources said that the two towers of the Barkhan-Kohlu transmission line were only slightly damaged.
According to another report, security forces arrested two suspects from the Toba Nokhani area of Dera Bugti and recovered four rockets, ammunition and cellphones. The sources claimed that the two planned to attack gas installations.
Meanwhile, Kamal Khan, a suspect arrested by the Nushki police a few days ago, was shifted to Quetta for interrogation. He was arrested in connection with bomb blasts and other subversive activities.
The sources said that Kharan Rifles, a wing of the Frontier Corps, seized illegal arms and ammunition from the Taftan area near the Iran border. They said that security forces had conducted an operation after receiving information about the illegal arms and ammunition dumped underground.
KARACHI: Halt to operation in Balochistan sought
http://balochwarna.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=592
KARACHI, July 10: Baloch nationalist parties and social organizations staged a rally here on Monday to condemn the ongoing military operation in the Bugti and Marri areas of Balochistan, and urged the international human rights organisations to take notice of ‘massive human rights violation’ by the armed forces.
They claimed that in the latest aerial bombardment, a large number of people, including women and children, had perished.
Carrying banners and placards, the protesters chanted slogans against the government and asked the international community to help stop killing of Baloch people.
The demonstrators, a large number of them youth, women and children, gathered outside the Karachi Press Club where they were joined in by the family members of the arrested or missing Baloch activists. The protesters alleged that the missing people had been ‘kidnapped ‘ by government agencies from different parts of Balochistan and other provinces.
The rally, which was organised by the Baloch Prisoners Release Committee, was also joined in by activists of the Jamhoori Watan Party, Baloch National Movement, Baloch Rights Council, Baloch Students Organisation, Baloch Unity Conference and National Party.
Addressing the protesters, leaders of these parties and organisations condemned the bombardment in Kohlu and Kahan, as well as the alleged attempts on the lives of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti and certain other leaders, saying that the government had crossed all limits in unleashing atrocities on the people of Balochistan.
Pointing out that innocent people were being picked up and tortured by government agencies, they accused the government of committing ‘genocide of Baloch people’ in their own province through the armed forces.
Describing the current situation as grim, they urged all political forces in the country, as well as international organisations to help stop the military operation which had already left hundreds of people dead and forced a large number of Baloch families to flee their ancestral land.
Khuda Bakhsh Baloch and Zahid Barakzai of the BPRC, Ghulam Mohammad Baloch of BNP, Shehzad Zafar Jan of JWP, Jawad Baloch of BSO and Abdul Wahab Baloch of BRC were among those who spoke at the rally.
Sanaullah Baloch accuses PTA of blocking his website
Senator says telecom authority has not responded to his letter written 6 months ago
http://balochwarna.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=593
QUETTA: Senator Sanaullah Baloch of the Balochistan National Party (BNP) has said that the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has still not responded to a letter he wrote to the body six months ago, after it blocked his website.
Talking to Daily Times via telephone from Geneva on Monday, Baloch said that the PTA had blocked his personal website, www.sanabaloch.com, on the grounds that it contained “anti-national material”.
“I submitted an application to the PTA chairman six months ago asking exactly what material on my website was ‘anti-national’. But he has not replied yet. The ban on my website is a violation of the freedom of expression,” Baloch said.
He said that his website only contained his personal photographs, interviews and speeches. “I am being punished for demanding that the government give the Baloch their rights. We are exposing the injustices of the military leadership against the innocent Baloch to the international community. But mine is a completely peaceful and democratic struggle. I consider the blocking of my website another effort to muzzle the Baloch voice,” he said.
The PTA blocked another four websites, all belonging to Baloch nationalists, on April 28. “It is the worst form of oppressing the Baloch. Earlier, they used to have our activists picked up and tortured for protesting against Punjab’s domination,” he said. “The latest trend that the government has adopted is to block websites of Baloch nationalists.”
PTA officials in Islamabad said that they had been ordered “from the top” to block these websites. “It (blocking Baloch nationalist websites) runs contrary to General Musharraf’s claims of freedom of expression,” a telecom analyst said. “All India-based, anti-Pakistan websites, television and radio channels are easily accessible from Pakistan, while websites owned by nationalists have been banned.”
Sources said that the PTA had sought technical assistance from the US government to block websites allegedly owned by the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA). “However, the nationalists appear to have superior technology to combat official restrictions,” one government official told Daily Times.
He cited instances of two other websites (www.bson-na.org and www.balochunity.org), which had been “unofficially blocked” two weeks ago by the PTA but were now accessible.
Government agencies are also accused of having taken into custody Munir Mengal, the managing director of Balochi television channel ‘Baloch Voice’, on his return from Bahrain on April 4.
Munir’s father has been on a hunger strike against his son’s kidnapping, and has threatened to commit suicide unless his son is returned.
Judiciary asked to take note of arrests
http://balochwarna.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=594
QUETTA, July 10: Kachkol Ali, Leader of Opposition in Balochistan Assembly belonging to the National Party, has appealed to the judiciary and human rights organisations to take note of the “extra-constitutional arrests” of the Baloch by intelligence agencies.
In a statement issued here on Monday, Kachkol Ali alleged that many Baloch nationals were arrested by intelligence agencies in violation of the law. However, they were never produced before the court, proving that they were not involved in any crimes, he added.
He said a few days back, the personnel of an intelligence agency picked up Ghaffar Lango and some of his colleagues from Mastung and took them to some unknown place.
The opposition leader called upon the provincial Public Safety Commission to play its role against the “unlawful” arrests.
“It is also the responsibility of the judiciary to take note of the extra-constitutional actions of the agencies,” he said.
http://www.dawn.com/2006/07/11/top10.htm
By Saleem Shahid
QUETTA, July 10: Six people, including a soldier of the Frontier Corps, were injured after a vehicle of the paramilitary force hit a landmine in the Sangsilla area of the Dera Bugti district on Monday.
The injured were identified as Munawar, the FC solider, and five civilians, Shahbaz Khan, Shakeel Ahmed, Gul Ahmed, Mohammad Anwar and Asmat Khan.
An attempt to blow up two electric pylons was reported from the Kohlu area, but the power supply was not affected.
Sources said that the two towers of the Barkhan-Kohlu transmission line were only slightly damaged.
According to another report, security forces arrested two suspects from the Toba Nokhani area of Dera Bugti and recovered four rockets, ammunition and cellphones. The sources claimed that the two planned to attack gas installations.
Meanwhile, Kamal Khan, a suspect arrested by the Nushki police a few days ago, was shifted to Quetta for interrogation. He was arrested in connection with bomb blasts and other subversive activities.
The sources said that Kharan Rifles, a wing of the Frontier Corps, seized illegal arms and ammunition from the Taftan area near the Iran border. They said that security forces had conducted an operation after receiving information about the illegal arms and ammunition dumped underground.
KARACHI: Halt to operation in Balochistan sought
http://balochwarna.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=592
KARACHI, July 10: Baloch nationalist parties and social organizations staged a rally here on Monday to condemn the ongoing military operation in the Bugti and Marri areas of Balochistan, and urged the international human rights organisations to take notice of ‘massive human rights violation’ by the armed forces.
They claimed that in the latest aerial bombardment, a large number of people, including women and children, had perished.
Carrying banners and placards, the protesters chanted slogans against the government and asked the international community to help stop killing of Baloch people.
The demonstrators, a large number of them youth, women and children, gathered outside the Karachi Press Club where they were joined in by the family members of the arrested or missing Baloch activists. The protesters alleged that the missing people had been ‘kidnapped ‘ by government agencies from different parts of Balochistan and other provinces.
The rally, which was organised by the Baloch Prisoners Release Committee, was also joined in by activists of the Jamhoori Watan Party, Baloch National Movement, Baloch Rights Council, Baloch Students Organisation, Baloch Unity Conference and National Party.
Addressing the protesters, leaders of these parties and organisations condemned the bombardment in Kohlu and Kahan, as well as the alleged attempts on the lives of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti and certain other leaders, saying that the government had crossed all limits in unleashing atrocities on the people of Balochistan.
Pointing out that innocent people were being picked up and tortured by government agencies, they accused the government of committing ‘genocide of Baloch people’ in their own province through the armed forces.
Describing the current situation as grim, they urged all political forces in the country, as well as international organisations to help stop the military operation which had already left hundreds of people dead and forced a large number of Baloch families to flee their ancestral land.
Khuda Bakhsh Baloch and Zahid Barakzai of the BPRC, Ghulam Mohammad Baloch of BNP, Shehzad Zafar Jan of JWP, Jawad Baloch of BSO and Abdul Wahab Baloch of BRC were among those who spoke at the rally.
Sanaullah Baloch accuses PTA of blocking his website
Senator says telecom authority has not responded to his letter written 6 months ago
http://balochwarna.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=593
QUETTA: Senator Sanaullah Baloch of the Balochistan National Party (BNP) has said that the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has still not responded to a letter he wrote to the body six months ago, after it blocked his website.
Talking to Daily Times via telephone from Geneva on Monday, Baloch said that the PTA had blocked his personal website, www.sanabaloch.com, on the grounds that it contained “anti-national material”.
“I submitted an application to the PTA chairman six months ago asking exactly what material on my website was ‘anti-national’. But he has not replied yet. The ban on my website is a violation of the freedom of expression,” Baloch said.
He said that his website only contained his personal photographs, interviews and speeches. “I am being punished for demanding that the government give the Baloch their rights. We are exposing the injustices of the military leadership against the innocent Baloch to the international community. But mine is a completely peaceful and democratic struggle. I consider the blocking of my website another effort to muzzle the Baloch voice,” he said.
The PTA blocked another four websites, all belonging to Baloch nationalists, on April 28. “It is the worst form of oppressing the Baloch. Earlier, they used to have our activists picked up and tortured for protesting against Punjab’s domination,” he said. “The latest trend that the government has adopted is to block websites of Baloch nationalists.”
PTA officials in Islamabad said that they had been ordered “from the top” to block these websites. “It (blocking Baloch nationalist websites) runs contrary to General Musharraf’s claims of freedom of expression,” a telecom analyst said. “All India-based, anti-Pakistan websites, television and radio channels are easily accessible from Pakistan, while websites owned by nationalists have been banned.”
Sources said that the PTA had sought technical assistance from the US government to block websites allegedly owned by the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA). “However, the nationalists appear to have superior technology to combat official restrictions,” one government official told Daily Times.
He cited instances of two other websites (www.bson-na.org and www.balochunity.org), which had been “unofficially blocked” two weeks ago by the PTA but were now accessible.
Government agencies are also accused of having taken into custody Munir Mengal, the managing director of Balochi television channel ‘Baloch Voice’, on his return from Bahrain on April 4.
Munir’s father has been on a hunger strike against his son’s kidnapping, and has threatened to commit suicide unless his son is returned.
Judiciary asked to take note of arrests
http://balochwarna.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=594
QUETTA, July 10: Kachkol Ali, Leader of Opposition in Balochistan Assembly belonging to the National Party, has appealed to the judiciary and human rights organisations to take note of the “extra-constitutional arrests” of the Baloch by intelligence agencies.
In a statement issued here on Monday, Kachkol Ali alleged that many Baloch nationals were arrested by intelligence agencies in violation of the law. However, they were never produced before the court, proving that they were not involved in any crimes, he added.
He said a few days back, the personnel of an intelligence agency picked up Ghaffar Lango and some of his colleagues from Mastung and took them to some unknown place.
The opposition leader called upon the provincial Public Safety Commission to play its role against the “unlawful” arrests.
“It is also the responsibility of the judiciary to take note of the extra-constitutional actions of the agencies,” he said.
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