Ho Baloch Online http://www.hobaloch.com Ho Baloch Online offers local and world news free streaming balochi songs balochi music mp3 chat baloch mail downloads and more. en-us admin@hobaloch.com 2009-01-06T17:28:10-05:00 hourly 1 2009-01-06T17:28:10-05:00 Alienation of the Baloch http://www.hobaloch.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=186 YET another official inauguration of the Gwadar seaport last month — this time by the Balochistan chief minister — will not allay the misgivings of the people of the province whose sense of deprivation runs much deeper than the deep, blue sea.
 
What is really needed is a truth and reconciliation commission, comprising public representatives (elected and unelected) from the province and the federation, to probe into the roots of alienation of the people of Balochistan from the national mainstream.
Balochistan is physically the largest and, ironically, the poorest and the richest of the provinces given its economic deprivation and the wealth of its natural resources, respectively. While Balochistan has been wholeheartedly sharing its wealth with the rest of the country, it has been burdened with a very unfair share of the poverty prevailing in Pakistan.

]]> 186@http://www.hobaloch.com news 2009-01-03T16:32:15-05:00 Postato da Administrator 2008 most violent year in a decade for Balochistan http://www.hobaloch.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=185 * Number of targeted killings rose to 400
* Terrorist activities registered an increase with 120 bomb blasts, 141 landmine explosions
By Malik Siraj Akbar

QUETTA: The outgoing year was the most violent in a decade for the Balochistan province in which 433 people lost their lives, including 73 victims of ‘target killing’ and 43 were killed in the name of honour.

Statistics indicate a constant rise in murder cases in the country’s largest province since 1997, when 241 people were killed.

Official data confirms 303 people were killed in 2005, the number rose to 341 in 2006 and was recorded at 390 in 2007.

It was the first year that the killings crossed the 400 mark.

The year saw a considerable rise is target killings, with the targets including police personnel and even journalists. The Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), a banned militant outfit that demands an independent Balochistan, claimed responsibility for the majority of the killings, justifying them as a response to the ‘state’s injustices against the Baloch people’.

]]> 185@http://www.hobaloch.com news 2009-01-03T16:29:58-05:00 Postato da Administrator 16 injured in BRA attack on Quetta Express http://www.hobaloch.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=184 QUETTA: At least 16 people, including the driver of a Quetta-bound train, were injured when Baloch militants attacked the train on Friday.
The Quetta Express, coming from Peshawar, was attacked in Nothal area of Sibi district. The attack injured 15 passengers and the train driver, who was reported to be in a critical condition. All the victims were shifted to a local hospital in Sibi.

Pakistan Railway authorities diverted all trains to and from Quetta at the Sibi junction for safety reasons.

]]> 184@http://www.hobaloch.com news 2009-01-03T16:28:20-05:00 Postato da Administrator Pakistani army began a brutal army operation in Zain koh http://www.hobaloch.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=183 Dera Bugti: Pakistani army began a brutal Operation in Zain koh area of Dera Bugti. According to sources 10 innocent Baloch including women and children were killed brutally in the operation in Zain koh by Pakistani army.
Meanwhile Baloch National army BRA killed several Pakistani soldiers in Jodeer area. Said sources.

]]> 183@http://www.hobaloch.com news 2009-01-02T16:16:36-05:00 Postato da Administrator Iran closes border after suicide attack http://www.hobaloch.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=182 QUETTA: Iranian authorities closed the border with Pakistan on Monday after a suicide bomb blast on the Iranian side of the border killed around 45 people in an attack on a police checkpost, sources said.
The bomber struck the joint headquarters of the Iranian police and anti-narcotics in the Iranian border town of Saravan early on Monday morning. Saravan, a district in the Iranian province of Sistan and Balochistan, is a predominantly Baloch-populated area where the entire population is Sunni Muslim unlike the dominant Shia sect of Islam in rest of the country.

]]> 182@http://www.hobaloch.com news 2008-12-30T16:43:50-05:00 Postato da Administrator 2 gas pipelines blown up in Dera Bugti http://www.hobaloch.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=181 DERA MURAD JAMALI: Unidentified militants blew up two pipelines supplying gas to a Sui purification plant early on Monday, officials said. According to sources, the militants had planted explosives along the two pipelines supplying gas to the purification plants in Sui from Pirkoh and Loti areas. The blasts damaged the pipelines, suspending gas supply to the plant.
]]> 181@http://www.hobaloch.com news 2008-12-30T16:42:34-05:00 Postato da Administrator Nawaz wants commission to probe Bugti’s murder http://www.hobaloch.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=180 LAHORE: PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif has called on the government to set up a commission to investigate the killing of Baloch nationalist leader Nawab Akbar Bugti, saying former president Pervez Musharraf had committed injustices against the people of Balochistan. According to a private TV channel report, Nawaz made the demand in a meeting with Jamhoori Watan Party chief Talal Akbar Bugti at his Raiwind residence. Talal said the people of Balochistan “have found like-minded people in other provinces”. “A collective struggle will bring change.” daily times monitor.]]> 180@http://www.hobaloch.com news 2008-12-30T16:41:05-05:00 Postato da Administrator Gas pipeline blown up in Dera Bugti http://www.hobaloch.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=179 QUETTA: A pipeline supplying gas from Pirkoh wells to Sui plant was blown up in the Pirkoh area of Dera Bugti districtўs Sui tehsil on Sunday, area police officials said. Unidentified men planted the bomb near the 16-inch pipeline, and the explosion destroyed a portion of the pipeline. Pakistan Petroleum Limited sources said that a team of engineers had been sent to the site in order to repair the damaged pipeline. Seperately, the railway track linking Quetta with other parts of the country was blown up and a Karachi to Quetta train was damaged in the Dasht area on Sunday, police and railway officials said. They said that no one was injured in the explosion.]]> 179@http://www.hobaloch.com news 2008-12-30T16:40:01-05:00 Postato da Administrator صحافی پر ’ http://www.hobaloch.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=178 مجھے جان بوجھ کر نشانہ بنایا گیا: بہرام خان
صوبہ بلوچستان کے ساحلی شہر گوادر میں حکام نے ایک مقامی صحافی بہرام بلوچ پر انسداد دہشت گردی فورس کے اہلکاروں کی جانب سے مبینہ تشدد کے واقعے کی تحقیقات کا حکم دے دیا ہے۔
پولیس نے اے ٹی ایف پر شہر میں گشت پر بھی پابندی عائد کر دی ہے۔

بی بی سی سے بات کرتے ہوئے اردو روزنامہ ’انتخاب‘ کے بیورو چیف کو بدھ کے روز شہر کے ایک چوراہے پر اے ٹی ایف کے اہلکاروں نے روک کر گاڑی سے ساتھی سمیت اتارا اور مبینہ طور پر تشدد کیا۔

واقعے کے بعد ضلعی پولیس افسر اور صوبائی حکام نے اس واقعے کی تحقیقات کا حکم دیتے ہوئے تین روز میں کارروائی کا وعدہ کیا ہے۔

بہرام بلوچ کے مطابق اس تشدد کی بظاہر کوئی وجہ نہیں تھی تاہم انہیں محسوس ہوتا ہے کہ انہیں جان بوجھ کر نشانہ بنایا گیا۔

اس واقعے کے بعد مقامی تاجروں اور صحافیوں نے احتجاج کرتے ہوئے شہر کی مین سڑک تین گھنٹوں کے لیے بلاک کر دی۔

چند روز قبل ہی وزیر اعلٰی بلوچستان نواب اسلم ریئسانی نے چین کی امداد سے تعمیر کی جانے والی گوادر بندرگارہ کا افتتاح کیا تھا۔ تاہم مقامی بلوچ قوم پرست اس منصوبے کے لیے دیگر علاقوں سے کارکنوں کو لانے پر ناراض ہیں۔

وزیر اعلٰی نے بندرگاہ کا کنٹرول صوبائی حکومت کے حوالے کرنے کا مطالبہ بھی کیا تھا۔ اس وقت اس کا کنٹرول مرکزی حکومت کے پاس ہے۔

]]> 178@http://www.hobaloch.com news 2008-12-25T14:08:34-05:00 Postato da Administrator A policeman shot and killed in Quetta http://www.hobaloch.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=177 Policeman shot and killed in Quetta Unidentified motorcyclists shot and killed a policeman in Hudda area on Wednesday in Quetta.
Constable Muhammad Yosouf was attending to some personal work in the area when two armed assailants opened fire at him with automatic weapons.

He received multiple shots to his head as a result he died on the spot.

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