Balochistan

BNP, BSO hold protest rallies

Rallies staged to condemn the killings of Baloch political opponents Jamil Yaqoob and Qayyum Baloch.

Express February 12, 2011

QUETTA: Balochistan National Party (BNP) and Baloch Student Organization (BSO-Azad) staged separate protest demonstrations in front of Quetta Press Club on Friday, condemning the killings of Baloch political opponents Jamil Yaqoob and Qayyum Baloch.

Their bodies were recovered on Thursday morning near Turbat city. The protestors chanted slogans against the PPP-led government accusing them of carrying out military operation in Balochistan. Separately, BSO also held a demonstration and accused secret agencies of killing Baloch political opponents in illegal-detention.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 12^th, 2011.

COMMENTS (8)

saba baloch | 13 years ago | Reply Only a right wing extremist can call BNP and BSO-Azad as terrorist organistions. These very people are involved in the extra-judicial killings, the very same killings that have prompted such protests. Punjabis really do not care about Balochis, as also the Sindhis and the Pastoons. It is exhibited in the way they are commenting over here, in the way they support the extra-judicial killings, in the way they hand over innocent Balochis to Iran. It is clear that they only care about themselves. It is these very same Punjabis who are hand in glove with their American masters and who ask the americans to bomb the innocent pashtoons. Every time a Punjabi gets killed in retaliation there is so much hue and cry but this is never the case whenever an innocent baloch gets eliminated and his body is found lying unclaimed. To top it all he gets labelled as a terrorist. A similar scene is seen in Pakhtunistan, where hordes of innocent Pashtoons keep getting eliminated and no one even talks about them; this country cares only about a punjabi. Precisely why anyone who opposes getting killed at the hands of these punjabi terrorists gets labelled as a terrorist. Shameful to say the least. Shame Shame.

wahab | 13 years ago | Reply I am a Punjabi but I love Balochistan as much as I love Punjab. Lets not fight with each other and fight against these forces that work day and night to develop tensions between different provinces, casts and creeds in Pakistan.

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Yasar | 13 years ago | Reply @Baloch: killing Punjabis, just like killing the coal miners of Chamalang. Give us a break, not just punjabis, so are kashmiris. four miners were killed last year,

Baloch | 13 years ago | Reply This wrong to say that Punjabis are being killed in Balochistan because of their ethnicity. Baloch do not believe in religious and ethnic violence, in fact, Baloch themselves are being erased from the face of earth due to their democratic and secular thinking. There are still thousands of Punjabi who are living safely in Balochistan. The military intelligence and the Intelligence agencies are behind mos of the target killings in Balochistan and elsewhere.

Aslam Khan | 13 years ago | Reply Better Balochistan become part of India and be a West India to protect itself from problems of Pakistan.

ashfaque ahmed | 13 years ago | Reply @arsalan nizam: No one cares for those who don't care for themselves. The punajbis havae stopped feeling proud of their mother tongue,their culture,their heritage.When they don't feel proud of their own language & culture then naturally the media doesn't care when punjabi settlers are deliberately killed in balochistan because the media knows no one will raise any hue & cry over the murder of punjabis & so the media ignores these ethnic murders.

arsalan nizam | 13 years ago | Reply why hasn't the media given any coverage to the brutal & deliberate killings of punjabi settlers in balochistan?? All the time this hue & cry about the missing persons but not a word,not a single talk show,not a single article on the systematic genocide against punjabis in balochistan!!

muhammad tanvir ahmed | 13 years ago | Reply These are terrorist organizations involved in the killing of thousands of innocent civilians for the last several years.They've killed numerous doctors,professors,businessmen,labourers only on the basis of thier ethnicity. These terrorist organizations have been conducting a campaign of ethnic cleansing of punjabis in balochistan for the last several years.These punjabis had been living & contributing to balochistan for the last 40,50 years but they were ruthlessly targetted & killed because of their being punjabis. Our media especially the tv channels have kept shamefully quiet on this campaign against a particular ethnic group.All the anchors have given hundreds of hours of airtime to the death of akbar bugti but not even a single hour on the holocaust against the punjabis in balochistan.

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