Articles : Disappearances and extrajudicial killings continue unabated in Balochistan -- the civilian governments remain callously indifferent

During the first four months of the year 2013 no restraint was observed on the part of the military in their actions. Abductions by unknown persons, disappearances and extrajudicial killings continue unabated in the war torn zone of Balochistan province. During the months from January to April, according to the Voice of Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP), an organisation that compiles records of missing persons and extrajudicial killings, 244 persons were abducted, 11 recovered, 34 extrajudicially killed and 26 died during military operations in different parts of the province.

According to the Pakistan Medical Association, Balochistan Chapter, 32 doctors are missing and 28 doctors have so far been killed. In addition dozens of lawyers are missing and many have been extrajudicial killed after abduction. Besides this, generally there is no rule of law and any person can be picked up and killed for any reason.

However, a new situation has arisen in the policies of the law enforcement agencies in that they have extended their jurisdictions to other provinces. Today Boloch citizens are being abducted from Karachi, the capital of Sindh province, where they go for higher education.

The Baloch Students Organisation-Azad (BSO-A) is the target of supra constitutional forces. Students between the ages of 16 to 24 are kidnapped by persons in plain clothes and members of the Frontier Corps (FC). Two of them were extrajudicially killed, two were recovered with disabilities after continuous torture and two of them remain missing since January 2013.

Mr. Zahid Pazeer son of Haji Pazeer Baloch was abducted from Raees Goth Karachi on January 28, his mutilated body was found on March 10 along with another missing person, Abdul Rehman Baloch. Their internal organs, hearts, livers and kidneys had been surgically removed (harvested) most probably for sale.

Mr. Babu Iftekhar Baloch son of Mansoor Ahmed Baloch, a student, was also abducted from Raees Goth Karachi on January 28 by persons in uniform and plain clothes. He was a resident of Panjgur city, Balochistan. He was killed during the disappearance and his bullet riddled and torture marked body was found on March 6, 2013.

Mr. Ejaz Ghulam Baloch son of Ghulam Jan Baloch, a student, was abducted on January 24 from Dalmia, Karachi by persons in a jeep, which are generally used in Balochistan by agencies to abduct nationalists. Since then he has been missing and his whereabouts remain unknown. He was a resident of Panjgur, Balochistan.

Mr. Waseem Fazal Baloch son of Fazal Kareem Baloch, a student, was abducted by the agents of the state intelligence agencies from Raees Goth, Karachi, on January 28. His whereabouts remain unknown.

Mr. Aman Jan Baloch son of Sayyed Ahmed Baloch, a student, was abducted from Chitkan, Panjgur, Balochistan on February 22. He was kept in an unknown place in Karachi. He was eventually released by the captors but he is paralysed and cannot walk.

Mr. Shakir Baloch son of Mohammad Jan Baloch, a student, was abducted by plain clothed men in February, 2013 from Chitkan, Panjgur, Balochistan. He was kept in a torture cell in Karachi, he received injuries on different parts of the body and he also cannot walk properly.

Mr. Manzoor Ahmad Qalandarani was abducted from Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Karachi at midnight of February 8, he was a student of the Iqra University Karachi. He is the son of a tribal leader Mushtaq Qalandarani. It is worth noting that 30 of his relatives have also been abducted. Among them 15 were released but 13 remain missing while two of them have been extrajudicial killed.

It is believed that the increase in human rights violations is linked to the election process. The supra-constitutional forces remained busy in their attempts to sabotage the elections as they feared that the citizens of Balochistan would join mainstream politics. The most recent abductions and extrajudicial killings are seen as a warning to the Balochis to keep clear of the political arena and to deny them the fruits of democracy.

The Voice of Baloch Missing Persons has compiled a list of abductions and extrajudicial killings on a monthly basis. In the month of January, 2103 53 persons were abducted, one was recovered and nine persons were killed during military operations in different parts of the province. In February 54 persons were abducted, five were recovered, eleven mutilated bodies were found and eight persons were killed during military actions in different areas. In March 61 persons were abducted, among them five persons were recovered, eleven mutilated bodies were found and the rest remain missing. Seven persons were killed in military actions in different districts. In the month of April 69 persons were abducted, no one was recovered, six mutilated bodies were found and two persons were killed in military actions. It must be noted that the bodies recovered may not refer to those persons abducted in the same month.

Although the process of making a new civilian government has been completed in Balochistan there is no sign that the situation in that province will return to normal. In the presence of the military and paramilitary forces it cannot be imagined as to how they will coexist with democracy.

The Asian Human Rights Commission is appalled by the callous and negligent behaviour of the armed forces and the government of Pakistan with respect to the ongoing human rights violations in Balochistan and elsewhere targeting Baloch citizens. We urge the civilian governments to immediately halt the increasing armed interventions in Balochistan and start a comprehensive dialogue with all the factions and groups who are agitating against the country. Unless and until the military is completely withdrawn there will not be a solution to the conflict. The governments must take immediate action to recover all missing persons from Balochistan and ensure that compensation is paid to the families of those who were extrajudicial killed.

http://www.humanrights.asia/news/ahrc-news/AHRC-STM-110-2013

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In the channel 4 News exclusive , British and other western jihadis fighter are shown in syria as never before.
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Pakistani sponsor terririst Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.

لشكر جھنگوی كوئٹه میں کیوں متحرک ، زمستان بلوچ لشكر چنگیزی ( جھنگوی ) كب كهان اور کیوں بنا اس سے هم اور آپ اچھی طرح واقف ھیں ، ليكن يه تنظيم كب بلوحستان میں فعال اور متحرک هوا اس پر هم ایک مختصر جائزہ لیں گے ، سيف اللہ كرد جو آج كل كوئيٹه میں بیٹھ كر اس تنظيم كو لیڈ کررہے ھیں ، سيف الله كرد بلوچ قبائل كرد سے تعلق رکھتے هيں اور يه شحص 2007 میں کینٹ میں فوجی جیل میں بند تھا ، اس پر دهشت گردی کے کئ الزام تھے ، جب بلوچ تحریک نے انٹرنیشنل پزرائ حاصل كيا تو رياست نے اس کے چھره كو مسح کرنے کے لیۓ ایک مذھبی دهشت گرد تنظيم كو بنانے كا پلان بنایا تاكه بلوچستان کے غير مسلم آبادی كو نشانہ بن كر بلوچ تحریک كو مشکوک بنايا جاۓ تو اس کھیل كو شروع كرديا گیا اور سيف الله كرد كو ایجنسیوں نے جیل سے فرار كرا كر اس كو ایک تیار دهشت گرد تنظيم كا سربراہ بنایا گیا ، اور بلوچستان بهر منشيات پروش ملاؤن اور افغان جهاد کے غازيوں كو جمع کرکے انکو متحرک كيا گیا آج هم انکی بنیادی نظریہ اور مقاصد پر بات نهيں کرینگے ، مگر ایک تلح حقیقت يه كه لشکر جھنگوی کے آج مضبوط کیمپ جو ايف سی کے زير پرستی چل رھے ھیں اور حاران زعمران میں ایک حاص گروپ انکا حمایتی ھے ، اور انکو پاکستان کے علاوه سعودیہ عربيه اور بحرین سے مکمل فنڈک هورها ھے ، اور انکے وسيع نیٹ ورک کے شفيق مینگل اور جماعه الدعوه کے اچھے تعلق ھیں جبکہ مالک ريكی کے بعد انکا جنداللہ سے تعلق خراب بوگے ، اب انکے شیعہ كلنگ پالیسی میں تبدیلی کے ساتھ بلوچ نسل کشی كا اضافی چارج ديا گیا ھے ، اور اس گروپ کے چوٹے موٹے کئ گروپ سرگرم ھیں .

 

Profile: Lashkar-e-Jhangvi

Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) is one of Pakistan's most violent Sunni Muslim militant groups.

It takes its name from the late Sunni Cleric Haq Nawaz Jhangvi, who spearheaded the anti-Shia campaign which began in the country 30 years ago as a counter-movement to the Iranian Islamic revolution.
Mr Jhangvi was a founding member of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP), a group blamed by many for introducing sectarian violence to the country.
Researchers say that the Islamisation policy introduced by Pakistan's former military leader, General Zia-ul-Haq, in the 1980s allowed the emergence of SSP in 1985.
The group resorted to violence against the Shia community almost immediately.
Path of violence The campaign got bloodier when a rival Shia group, Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Fiqah Jafferia (TNFJ) challenged it, resulting in the deaths of the top leaders of both sectarian groups, including Mr Jhangvi.
Within a decade the conflict led to fissures within the SSP and in 1996 LeJ broke away under the leadership of Riaz Basra.
He wanted to continue on the path of violence against Shias and rejected a call from other Sunni militant leaders to join mainstream politics and scale down attacks.
Calling themselves "Jhangvi" loyalists, the Lej - or Army of Jhangvi - began allying itself with the Taliban movement which was just taking over in Afghanistan.
Both the Taliban and the LeJ belong to the same orthodox, puritanical Deobandi tradition of Islam associated with the Islamic revivalist movement in the region.
The connection helped Mr Basra and his group to seek refuge in Afghanistan.
Government intelligence agencies have pointed to several LeJ militant training camps in Afghanistan. These camps were used not only to train anti-Shia militants but also as safe havens for Pakistani criminals and militants.
In August 2001, Pakistan's military leader General Pervez Musharraf banned a number of militant organisations, with LeJ top of the list.
In May 2002 Riaz Basra was killed, and analysts believe that the group began to develop links with Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda network.
Such fears were proved right when investigators found links between LeJ relating to three 2007 incidents in Pakistan which were all blamed jointly on al-Qaeda and the LeJ.
These included the kidnapping and beheading of US Journalist Daniel Pearl, an attack on French engineers in Karachi and a bomb attack on an Islamabad church.

 

 

Quetta university shut after attacks.

The women's university at the centre of Saturday's deadly twin attacks in the Pakistani city of Quetta has been shut down until further notice.

In the first incident a bomb on a university bus killed 14 women. Gunmen then killed 11 when they laid siege to the hospital treating the wounded.
Sardar Bahadur Khan University is the only all-female university in troubled Balochistan province.
The move is seen as a safety precaution in a city which has seen many attacks.
The site of the five-hour gun battle that unfolded after the bus bombing, the sprawling Bolan Medical Complex in Quetta, has also been closed indefinitely.

Profile of lashkar-e-Jhangvi : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20982987

 

 

Profile of Lashkar a jangvi http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20982987

An extremist Sunni group, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, has said it carried out both attacks. A spokesperson for the group said a female suicide bomber had been used to target the university students.

Although police now say they have found the severed head of a woman from the scene, they say the investigation is continuing to see if this really was a suicide attack.
Correspondents say that the use of women as suicide bombers in Pakistan has been rare.
On Sunday, Quetta observed an official day of mourning but Monday saw yet more groups, such as the Balochistan Bar Association, declare a strike to mourn the attacks.
Saturday's bloodshed began when a bomb exploded on a bus carrying students at Sardar Bahadur Khan Women's University.
When survivors were brought to the medical centre, militants stormed the building and started shooting indiscriminately.
The battle between the militants and security forces left nurses, security personnel and a senior city official among the dead.
Four attackers were also killed and one arrested, officials say.
Quetta, a city of 900,000 people in the south-west of the country, has long been troubled by violence mainly targeting the Shia Muslim minority, often claimed by groups such as Laskar-e-Jhangvi.
In January at least 81 people, mainly Shia Muslims, were killed in a bomb attack on a snooker hall in the city. And in February almost 90 died when a bomb ripped through a marketplace in a Hazara Shia part of the city.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22932747

At Least 23 Die in Pakistani Bombing, Siege

From Wall Street Journal :At least 23 people were killed Saturday, including 14 female university students, in twin bomb and gun attacks in the western Pakistani city of Quetta, officials said.

In an afternoon of mayhem, militants bombed a bus carrying students from a university. The dead and injured were taken to a nearby hospital, which was then stormed by gunmen and suicide bombers, who took hostages, leading to a four-hour siege and firefight with security forces, before the authorities took control.

Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a violent Sunni sectarian organization normally associated with attacks on the minority Shiite sect of Islam, claimed responsibility. The group, influenced by al Qaeda, works closely with the Pakistani Taliban.

A rescue worker and security official collect evidence from a burned bus at the site of a bomb blast in the western Pakistani city of Quetta on Saturday.

Quetta is the violence-plagued provincial capital of Baluchistan. The bus was taking the students home after class. Some locals said that students from the local Hazara community, who are Shiite, often rode that bus. The bus was just leaving the university when an improvised explosive device detonated onboard, said provincial police chief Mushtaq Sukhera.

Just a smoldering metal skeleton was left of the bus, television pictures from the scene showed. A few possessions of the students were found there, including shoes, charred writing pads carrying the student's notes from classes, identity cards and a handbag.

The dead and injured were taken to a hospital that was almost next to the university. There, as relatives and officials gathered, a suicide bomber exploded his vest inside the building, close to paramilitary Frontier Corps guards, said Mr. Sukhera. Then, gunfire started.

"I think it was their trap, that the girls would be shifted to the nearest hospital, and they would attack there," said Mr. Sukhera.

There is a large community of ethnic Hazara in Quetta. They have been the victims of a sustained campaign of violence by Lashkar-e-Jhangvi that claimed hundreds of lives. The Hazara are also a minority in neighboring Afghanistan.

Federal Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said that 35 people were taken hostage in one room at the hospital.

"We were preparing for a commando operation to free them, but, by God's grace, that was not necessary," said Mr. Khan.

Officials said that 14 were killed in the bus bombing and 19 injured. At the hospital, a further four nurses, a senior city official and four paramilitary security personnel were killed. Four police officers were injured, one critically. In addition, four assailants were killed at the hospital.

The provincial police chief, Mr. Sukhera, denied that the attack was sectarian. However, that seemed to be contradicted by the claim of responsibility, evidence from eyewitnesses and the views of other officials. Those at the hospital at the time of the assault told local media that the attackers had said that the Sunnis could leave but the Shiites had to remain.

Hasil Bizenjo, a senator and a senior member of the National Party, which is part of the new ruling provincial coalition government in Baluchistan, said the bus hit in the attack had changed its route and had previously taken students to the Hazara enclave in the city.

"Lashkar-e-Jhangvi doesn't claim responsibility for any attack here unless it is an attack on Shiites," said Mr. Bizenjo. The other attacks are usually claimed by the Pakistani Taliban, he said.

Mr. Bizenjo said that such attacks would continue unless there was better intelligence, and for that, work by the military's spy agencies, Inter-Services Intelligence and Military Intelligence, was needed.

"But there still seems to be some confusion, some hurdles" in those intelligence agencies targeting the religious extremists, he said.

Pakistan's military and its intelligence agencies have long been criticized for their relationship with some jihadist groups, including sectarian groups. The military rejects the charges.

Iran promotes its sham "election," UN Watch brought torture victim Marina Nemat

As Iran promotes its sham "election," UN Watch brought torture victim Marina Nemat to tell the truth about what the murderous regime did to her when she was only 16 years old:

 

House Passes Rohrabacher Amendment Tying Human Rights in Pakistan to U.S. Military Aid.

Washington, D.C.: Today, Congressman Dana ’s (R-CA)  amendment tying the Defense Department’s ability to give monetary aid to Pakistan’s military to its treatment of ethnic and religious minority groups was included in final passage of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2014 by the House of Representatives.

 
The amendment requires the Secretary of Defense to certify that Pakistan is not using its military to “persecute minority groups for their legitimate and nonviolent political and religious beliefs.” The amendment specifically names the Balochi, Sindhi and Christian minorities, among others.
“This is a giant step forward for those victims of oppression in Pakistan,” said Rohrabacher.  “For the first time their plight is being recognized and a policy is being established of not giving the Pakistani government the weapons to carry on their repression. This is the first time the plight of the Balochi and the Sindhi have been underscored in legislation that links support for Pakistan’s military to how they treat those minority groups.”
Pakistan’s military and security services have long carried out vicious attacks against minorities aimed at depriving them of their right to participate in the political process and their right of self determination. The United States has given over $25 billion dollars of aid to Pakistan since 2001 and this year’s National Defense Authorization Act authorized up to an additional $1.5 billion dollars.
The Rohrabacher amendment was offered with the bipartisan co-sponsorship of Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA).
Rep. Rohrabacher is Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats.
 Source: Congressman Dana Rohrabacher