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Report: Baluch, Sindhi expatriates protest before UK PM's residence

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Pakistan's interior minister Rahman Malek acknowledged before a Norway TV reporter that Ehsan Arjmandi is in the custody of Pakistani authorities. He stated that Mr Arjmandi was carrying a fake Pakistani ID; therefore, it has to be investigated thoroughly before he is released. This acknowledgement came after nearly one year of his arrest while traveling from the East Baluchistan to Pakistani

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Members of UK Baluch community gathering outside 10 Downing Street London –UK to ask the UK government stop supporting Pakistan which is involved in assassination of liberal Baluch political activists. The demonstrators chanted slogans against Pakistan and called it a state that was breeding and supporting terrorism. Amongst the speakers was the NP’s central committee member Aslam Boledai who

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QUETTA: A younger brother of Mir Khalid Langove, a central leader of the National Party, was killed and three other members of the Langove tribe were injured in a deadly attack on the van of the Mir Khalid Langove on Saturday evening. According to the details,Mir Khalid Langove and his younger brother were returning to Quetta after offering Fateha at the residence of Mir Najeeb Langove when they

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Islamabad. Baluchistan Students with civil society and political activists held a protest demonstration in front of National Press Club Islamabad on Wednesday to condemn the cold- blooded target killings of Habib Jalib Baluch and Maula baksh Dashti. The Protesters while demonstration chanted slogans condemning the continuing assassination of the Baluch political workers and expressed their anger

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"I condemn in the strongest possible terms today's terrorist attacks claimed by Jundallah that targeted Iranians at a mosque in the Sistan-Baluchestan province of Iran," Clinton said in a statement. "The United States extends its sympathy to the families and loved ones of those injured and killed. We also call for the perpetrators of this horrific attack to be held accountable for their actions,"

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The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: The Secretary-General strongly condemns the suicide bombings in Zahedan, Iran, which have reportedly claimed the lives of scores of people and left many more injured. This senseless act of terrorism at a place of worship makes it all the more reprehensible. The Secretary-General extends his

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The national Party in statement published in the East Baluchistani Urdu daily ‘Intekhab’ urged the armed nationalists to come clean about the target killing of  Party’s founding activist Maula Bakhsh Dashti. Dashti was killed on 11 July 2010 near Turbat. Two different, but previously unknown, organisations claimed reponsibility of his murder, while BNF distanced itself from a statement of

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Ali Abdollahi, an Iranian security official in Zahedan confirmed the number of dead in twin Zahedan bomb attack as 27. He added that 167 people are injured. Amongst those injured condition of 11 people is critical. Source: Fars News Meanwhile Jondollah has released the pictures of the two attackers wearing their suicide kit. They are named as Mohammad Rigi and Abdolbasset Rigi.

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The Rigi founded Jondollah claimed responsibility of twin suicide attack on Zahedan Mosque. The statement says there were revolutionary guards in the Mosque who were celebrating ‘Revolutionary Guard’s Day’ and the attack killed 10s of them. The Jondollah statement has named the two suicide bombers as Mohammad Rigi and Abdolbasset Rigi. It adds that the attack was a message sent to the barbaric

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Two suicide bombers in the capital city of the West Baluchistan -Zahedan kill scores of Shiite worshipers. The attacks occurred on the Central Mosque when worshipers were performing special prayers on the occasion of Abolfazl and Imam Hussain’s birthday. According the a statement of Hossain Ali Sharyari -Zahedan representative in the Iranian parlaiment- the first suicide bomber was dressed as

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... In an urgently issued press release, B.H.R.C. condemned in strongest words the extra judicial assassinations of Mr. Maula Bakhsh Dashti and Mr. Habib Jalib in Baluchistan. Mr. Dashti was gunned down on July 11, 2010 by unknown assailants in Kech Makuran. He was a central committee member of National Party, former chairman of Baluch Students Organization (B.S.O. - Awami), and district Nazim

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Pakistani Prime Minister Yussef Reza Gillani phoned Sardar Attaulla Mengal and expressed commiseration over the Mengal party’s secretary general Habib Jalib’s murder. The PM also instructed Baluchistan Chief Minister Raeesani to form a judiciary to investigate the murder. In return Attaulla Mengal promised to not bow to the pressure of those who are trying to push the party ‘to the point of no

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ISLAMABAD, Jul 14 (APP): President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday strongly condemned the assassination of senior Baluch nationalist leader and former parliamentarian Habib Jalib Baluch in Quetta.The President termed it a heinous and despicable act and asked the provincial government to investigate and track down theperpetrators. He said justice would be done and those responsible

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Quetta,Gunmen assassinated a nationalist leader in insurgency-torn Baluchistan on Wednesday as he left his home on the outskirts of Quetta, police and relatives said. Habib Jalib was an ex-chairman of BSO and secretary general of the opposition faction of Baluchistan National Party, which advocates greater autonomy for the southwestern province and campaigns peacefully for self-determination.

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The four day strike and boycott of court proceedings by the East Baluchistani lawyers over the killing of prominent Baluch leader Maula Bakhsh Dashti enters its third day, Wednesday. According to a Daily Intekhab report the Makran Bar, Lasbella Bar, Baluchistan High Court Bar and Baluch Bar had jointly announced the strike. Meanwhile a general strike called by the NP was observed across the East

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The former BSO chairman, Kech Nazim and the NP's leading activist Maula Bukhsh Dashti was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in the town of Turbat, the East Baluchistan. His attackers escaped on a motorbike. Two of Mr Dashti's companions were also injured in the shooting. No group has said it carried out the attack. Thousands of people with tearful eyes attended Mr Dashti's funeral in Turbat,

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Quetta—Baluchistan Provincial Minister for Irrigation Mir Aslam Bezinjo on Monday warned that water supply from Hub Dam to Karachi would be stopped with immediate effect if the Sindh Irrigation Department did not release complete water share of Baluchistan without further delay. Addressing a news conference here at Civil Secretariat, he alleged that dishonest and wrong attitude of the Sindh

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Pakistani agencies have dumped another Baluchistani’s body following his death during torture. The body named as Faizollah Baluch in a Baluch National Movement statement and was found near civil hospital Quetta. The BNM statement published in ‘Balochwarna’ says “three Baluch youth namely Mangay Khan, Bahar Khan Baluch and Faizullah Baluch were abducted by the intelligence agencies of Pakistan

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TEHRAN: Iran hunged on Sunday two Baluchistani men convicted of ‘waging war against God’ after they were found guilty by a kangaroo court of drug trafficking, armed robbery and abduction, a report said. The two Amanollah Pourian and Younes Rahmani were hanged in the West Baluchistan's capital city of Zahedan, Fars news agency reported quoting a local judiciary statement. The report said the two

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Baluch nationalism and Islamic nationalism cannot comfortably go side by side. If the mere fact that Regi was a Baluch attracted BNF reaction then one wonders if similar reaction would be shown on the death of a Baluch who is a part of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI), Pakistan People’s Party and Muslim League? BNF should not judge people merely on their Baluch ethnicity. It should support the people

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Two Baluch residents of Karachi and active members of separate political parties were gunned down in broad daylight in Korangi area of Karachi, Tuesday.The two were named as Naseem Hayder Baluch of PPP and Mohammad Bakhsh Bacchal from JSQM. The other two people who were travelling in the same car also got killed. The killers escaped in two motorcycles and a car. source: thenews.com.pk There are

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Iranian authorities have announced that 10 more Baluch are being persecuted on charges of being members ‘Jondollah’ –a group created by Abdolmalek Rigi which staged an armed struggle against the current barbaric Iranian regime. Abdolmalek Rigi himself was hanged on 20th June 2010, about 25 days after his brother Abdolhamid Rigi’s hanging. Following the hanging of Abdolmalek Rigi, media reports

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