Pak military generals main culprits of genocide in Balochistan

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Attending the silent vigil to pay homage to the victims of the Pakistani military in Balochistan, Baloch representative at the United Nations and the European Union, Mehran Marri said Friday,"The main culprits to be held accountable for the massacres in Balochistan are the military generals who should be taken before the international criminal courts and ideally be hanged for the crimes they committed". He said, "We are here to pay our homage and respects to the victims of kill and dump policy by the Pakistani Government which has started in recent years. There are tens of thousands of victims of this kill and dump policy." He added, "We hope to raise awareness internationally and especially in the human rights council, of the atrocities Pakistan is committing in Balochistan. I am very happy with the high number of people present here that it has been very effective".

 

The protest was also attended by European Parliament Vice President Ryszard Czarnecki, who said, "I told the European Union during our human rights debate that if our partner countries do not accept human rights and standards, in this situation we should react and seek sanctions like some moves in economic fields". Stating that Islamabad has dual standards, the European Parliament Vice President said on one hand it shows a clean face to the world while on the other it indulges in human rights violations. He also acknowledged the problem in Pakistan is that the government is controlled by the military. (ANI)

 

http://www.pakistantelegraph.com/index.php/sid/247941163

 

Balochistan becomes cemetery for journalists as Pakistan targets intellectual

 

The recent case in point is that of a prominent intellectual Wahid Baloch, editor of the Balochi language magazine Balochi Labzank and in-charge of the world’s best Balochi language library Sayad Hashmi Reference Library in Malir, Karachi. Wahid Baloch was forcibly abducted by the Pakistani intelligence personnel on July 26 2016 without any charge. Nothing is known about his whereabouts as yet. The Amnesty International issued an alert on his abduction rather swiftly saying Wahid Baloch “is at grave risk of ill-treatment, torture, or even death. Scores of other activists who have been forcibly disappeared in Karachi and the neighbouring province of Balochistan have suffered similar fates in recent years.†Human Rights Watch executive director Ken Roth tweeted that the man fought against disappearances but became a victim himself.

Five years ago Professor Saba Dashtiyari, founder of the Sayad Hashmi Reference library, was gunned down as he was a vocal advocate for Balochistan’s right to freedom. Last year, the Deep State –Pakistani intelligence services plus military establishment-- gunned down Karachi liberal intellectual Sabeen Mahmud, after she defied the “angels†or ISI orders not to host a talk about the victims of enforced disappearances in Balochistan. Her killing took place even while guests were still at the venue of the talk, the Second Floor. Quetta journalist Muhammad Akbar Notezai, writes in The Diplomat that according to the Balochistan Union of Journalists (BUJ), “Balochistan has become a cemetery for journalists.†Two years ago Irshad Mastoi, general secretary of the BUJ, was gunned down at his office in Quetta, along with a trainee reporter Abdul Rasool Khajak and accountant Mohammad Younus. On the day of his death, Mastoi who sympathized with the Balochistan liberation struggle, had posted comments against two politicians, the cleric Tahirul Qadri and cricketer-turned-politician, Imran Khan. Mastoi hinted at the bullying by intelligence services when he said â€œsome institutions consider the media as a resistance group.†More than three dozen journalists fell prey to Pakistan's cloak-and-dagger games. Prominent among those who were killed and their bodies dumped are Ilyas Nazar, editor of Balochi language Darwanth magazine; Haji Abdul Razzak Baloch and Javed Nasir Rind of Daily Tawar; Razzaq Gul of Daily Express. 

Even foreign journalists are not spared. "It's a complete nightmare," UK journalist Willem Marx, author of Balochistan at Crossroads, said about the state of press freedom there. "Foreign journalists will simply get deported for reporting on Baluchistan. It's much more of a mortal risk to local journalists." Marx, who was denied visa to go Pakistan because of his book, is right. International correspondent Declan Walsh, of Irish descent, wrote in The Guardian about Pakistan’s kill and dump policy in France-sized Balochistan: “The bodies surface quietly, like corks bobbing up in the dark. They come in twos and threes, a few times a week, dumped on desolate mountains or empty city roads, bearing the scars of great cruelty. Arms and legs are snapped; faces are bruised and swollen. Flesh is sliced with knives or punctured with drills; genitals are singed with electric prods. In some cases the bodies are unrecognisable, sprinkled with lime or chewed by wild animals. All have a gunshot wound in the head.†British journalist Carlotta Gall, reporter for The New York Times, was beaten up by the Pakistani “angels†while she was in Quetta, Balochistan. She wrote in her paper about the incident. â€œOne agent punched me twice in the face and head and knocked me to the floor. I was left with bruises on my arms, temple and cheekbone, swelling on my eye and a sprained knee…. All the people I interviewed were subsequently visited by intelligence agents, and local journalists who helped me were later questioned by Pakistan's intelligence service, the Inter-Services Intelligence.†Since then Gall has written an interesting book The Wrong Enemy in which “Her evidence that Pakistan fuelled the Taliban and protected Osama bin Laden is revelatory.â€

Baloch educationists have fallen prey to terrorist outfits that enjoy ISI blessings. One prominent case is that of US-educated Zahid Askani, who left the comforts of America, to launch  co-education school in Gwadar. C. Christine Fair, associate professor at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, who is doing research work on Balochistan as well, was threatened by the Pakistan intelligence services that she will be raped by an entire regiment for exposing the army grandiose, war mongering strategies. “Their tools are crude and include: outright threats; slanderous articles in Pakistani papers and other on-line forums; an army of trolls on twitter and other social media who hound us; and embassy officials who attend and report on our speaking events on Pakistan. But we are lucky to be in the United States: Pakistan’s khaki louts disappear, kidnap and/or kill their critics within Pakistan,†she wrote in the HuffingtonPost.

 

http://www.thenewsminute.com/article/balochistan-becomes-cemetery-journalists-pakistan-targets-intellectuals-50651

 

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