United Baloch Army kill 22 passengers in Balochistan

QUETTA: Gunmen disguised as members of the Pakistani security forces killed at least 22 passengers on Friday night after forcing them off buses travelling from the western city of Quetta to Karachi on the southern coast, officials said.

The assault in the province of Balochistan occurred in the town of Mastung.

“Fifteen to 20 armed men in three pickup trucks and wearing security uniforms kidnapped around 35 passengers,” Sarfaraz Bugti, Balochistan’s home minister, towld Reuters. Bugti also alleged that India’s intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) was involved in the killings.

Mureed Baloch, a militant who identifies himself as the spokesman of United Baloch Army (UBA), which has attacked security forces in the past, claimed the bus attacks on Saturday.

In Quetta, the family members and relatives of those killed in the Mastung massacre protested outside the Governor House with victims’ bodies laid beside them. They decided to continue the protest after negotiations between them and the administration failed.

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United Baloch Front Gunned Down eight Punjabi labourers In Hub Balochistan

< Daily Tawar >

Four people were killed and 65 injured in BRA attack on Train

Four people were killed and 65 injured on Friday when a passenger train derailed following a bomb explosion on its tracks in southern Punjab. The Baloch Republican Army (BRA) claimed responsibility for the attack.

The Khushaal Khan Khattak Express – which was en route to Karachi from Peshawar – was chugging past the rural area of Omar Kot, in Rojhan sub-district of Rajanpur, when the attack took place, officials said.
A timed device planted on the track went off moments after the locomotive crossed it. All seven wagons, carrying around 400 passengers, derailed and four of the wagons fell into a nearby nala.

Railways Minister Khwaja Saad Rafique ordered an inquiry into the incident and announced Rs500,000 compensation for heirs of each of the dead and Rs100,000 for each injured.

BRA spokesperson Arbaz Khan claimed responsibility for the attack.

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BLF kills two Christian sweepers in Turbat

Two Christians, who worked as sweepers in Turbat, were gunned down Thursday by a Baloch militant group. The two victims were identified as Musthtaq Masih and Ilyas Masih.

"The killings took place within the limits of the municipal corporation," Deputy Commissioner of Kech District Abdul Hameed Abro told this correspondent on phone from Turbat. However, he did not have any further information,

According, to the local sources they two were in their 40s and employed as sanitary workers with Turbat Municipal Corporation. Turbat is hometown of Balochistan chief minister Dr. Malik Baloch, the two sweepers went to Zor Bazar in Turbat and were busy opening a blocked sewerage line as the dirty water was overflowing on the road when they were gunned down. Most Muslims all over Pakistan shun the work of opening sewer lines and the low paid job is done mainly by Christians.

The Baloch Liberation Tigers, a pseudonym used by the Baloch Liberation Front of Dr. Allah Nazar Baloch, owned responsibility for the killings.

Senator Mr Hasil Bizenjo strongly condemned the killings of the poor Christians. "This shameful act is a huge disgrace for the Baloch struggle for rights," Bizenjo said on phone from Quetta, capital of Balochistan. "The killings show the depths of the political abyss the militants have fallen into," he added.

Pakistan Christian Congress also strongly condemned the killings of the two innocent Christian sweepers.

"Killing poor people and laborers is the height of inhumanity," P.C.C. president Dr. Nazir Bhatti, who is based in Philadelphia, said. "The difference between Taliban and the Baloch militants is fast eroding as their brutal tactics are now basically one," Dr. Bhatti said.

Apparently, the main sin of the two victims was they spoke Punjabi. Most Christians in Pakistan belong to Punjab, the dominant of the four provinces, but they eke out a slave-like existence working as sweepers.


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In Pictures: Carnage in Quetta, The day after

As many as 102 people had been reported killed on Thursday night in suicide and car bomb blasts in Quetta’s Alamdar Road area whereas 12 people were reported killed the same day when a bomb went off near a vehicle of the Frontier Corps at Bacha Khan Chowk.

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BRP Claimed the responsibly of Ten persons Killing

QUETTA - At least 10 people were killed and 15 others injured when unidentified armed men opened fire on four buses in separate incidents in Sibi and Bolan districts of Balochistan late on Sunday night.

Per details, the first incident near Colmagi involved a bus traveling to Quetta from Nawabshah and a truck. The assailants opened fire on the two vehicles, killing four people on the spot. The second incident occurred in Bala Nari area of Bolan when unidentified armed men opened fire on a Quetta-bound coach, killing three people and injuring five others. In another incident near Dhadar, armed assailants opened fire on a bus, killing a woman and injuring three others. The injured were rushed to a hospital where two more succumbed to injuries.

Meanwhile in Mastung, unidentified people torched two trucks on way to Karachi. No casualty was reported in that incident. The attacks were linked to the 6th anniversary of Nawab Akbar Bugti by the Balochistan Republican Party (BRP), whose leader Brahamdagh Bugti has led an insurgency to secede from Pakistan.

He is the grandson of Akbar Bugti, who was killed during a military operation in 2006.

BRP spokesman Sarbaz Baluch claimed responsibility for the shooting. “We had launched an appeal for a complete strike and the buses bound for southern Sindh and central Punjab provinces had ignored our appeal. We therefore opened fire on them,” he said in a telephone call to AFP.

Sunday’s strike had been almost complete across the insurgency-hit province and had been endorsed by almost all political and religious parties in the province.

<Pakistan Today>

BLF gun down 19 coach passengers,use fake name

Baloch terrorists belonging to the militant Baloch Liberation Front shot and killed at least 19 coach passengers in the Dasht area Friday morning, political sources reached by this correspondent in Mekran said.

All the passengers were trying to secretly cross into Iran for onwards journey to Turkey and finally to Europe. "The killings occurred in Hor Shooli area in Dasht Friday morning. The victims belonged to different ethnic groups Punjabis, Pashtuns and Sindhis," one source said on condition of not being named.

Though the B.L.F. used a pseudonym Baloch Liberation Tigers to own the massacre, there is no such organization by the name of B.L.T. in Mekran and the action was a trademark of the B.L.F., well-informed sources said.


The B.L.F. also falsely accused the victims of being Punjabi settlers.

The B.L.F. commander who allegedly oversaw Friday's massacre was identified as Dilip Shikari. They were allegedly eight gunmen who came on three motorbikes. After verifying the identity of the passengers, they killed all the non-Baloch passengers by opening fire on them with Kalashnikovs or AK-47 assault rifles.

The terrorists allowed the Baloch driver to go. One of the victim was seriously wounded.

The Tamil Tiger-style killings by the B.L.F. have raised concerns and consternation among moderate Baloch nationalists that their struggle would earn regional and global infamy.

An offshoot of the B.L.F. which has risen in popularity in Mekran in recent months named Baloch National Liberation Front regretted the massacre of the innocent civilians.

"We cannot afford such enmity with different ethnic groups," said Sattar Baloch, founder of the B.N.L.F. who was once torture victim himself.  "The situation must be rectified before it is too late," he demanded.

The B.L.F. is committing crimes against humanity with impunity in Mekran, local residents say.

On July 4, the B.L.F. is alleged to have forcibly disappeared Bahram Baloch, 20, son of Qadir Bakhsh Baloch from Mand Giyab area on a charge that he was a government informer.


The B.L.F. is closely allied with London-based former Balochistan education minister Hyrbyair Marri. The militant outfit also has a couple of supporters in Canada and the U.S.


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Blood of Non-Baloch For Balochistan: 8 ‘settlers’ shot dead in Quetta

QUETTA (APP): At least eight people, a police personnel among them, were shot dead at Sariab Road area of Quetta on Saturday, police confirmed.

According to police, two armed motorcyclists barged into a laundry shop located in Kaley Faizabad, Saryab Road area of Quetta near Haq Bahu building and opened indiscriminate fire at the people present there. As a result of firing five persons were killed on the spot while five others sustained injuries.The injured were shifted to Civil Hospital Quetta for treatment where three injured people succumbed to their wounds raising death toll to eight.The sources in hospital, where emergency has been put in place, said the death toll may mount as some injured are in critical state. Police feared that the shooting incident could be outcome of personal enmity.


The injured identified as Gul Mohammad, a police constable his son Mohammad Ishaq, Shair Mohammad, Nasrullah, Mohammad Umer and Abdul Hameed succumbed to their injuries while on way to hospital.Condition of one Mohammad Shehzad who was shifted to Civil hospital Quetta is stated to be critical.


Initial investigations indicated that the victims were "settlers," he said, referring to people who have settled in Balochistan but come from other provinces of Pakistan.Police officer Salim Shahwani said that the victims were from Punjab province and were inside the laundry the time of the attack.


Meanwhile the citizens of Quetta have expressed grave concerns over uncontrolled target killing and performance of security forces to tackle the situation.There was no claim of responsibility for the attack, but Balochistan suffers from ethnic tensions, sectarian violence between Sunni and Shia Muslims and a separatist insurgency which also targets non-natives.Small separatist groups at in impoverished Balochistan often target Pakistanis from other parts of the country. The separatists want autonomy and a greater share of the money derived from the province's natural resources like gas and oil.


<The Frontier Post>

Blood of Non-Baloch For Balochistan:Prof. Safdar Ali Kayani

In 1980 he came to Quetta and joined University of Balochistan as a lecturer and remained on the same post till 1981. In 1981, he was promoted to the seat of Assistant Professor and in 1984 to Associate Professor. Meanwhile, in 1984, he took the charge of "Chairman of Botany Department and then in 1998 he became the Meritorious Professor. Afterwards he achieved the status of "Dean Faculty of Sciences" and then became the "Dean Faculty of Biological Sciences". In 2000, he was promoted to "Dean of Student Affairs, and in 2005, he became a "Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University of Balochistan"..

He was killed by BLA,he was 60 years old at the time of his murder.


<Dawn News>

Blood of Non-Baloch For Balochistan: Shafiq Ahmed Khan

Shafiq Ahmed Khan (55) was elected member of provincial assembly for the first time in 2002 elections on a PPP ticket. He also succeeded in reaching the assembly in 2008 elections and was allocated portfolio of Education Ministry. Shafiq was one of the most popular personalities of Quetta. He has left four daughters and a widow.

In Quetta, Unidentified armed persons assassinated Balochistan Education Minister Shafiq Ahmed Khan and seriously wounded his relative. Baloch Liberation United Front (BLUF) has accepted the responsibility for the killing.

<The Nation>

Blood of Non-Baloch For Balochistan: Professor Fazal Bari

Quetta, March 22 Renowned educationist Professor Fazal Bari was gunned down here  and the Baloch Liberation Army claimed responsibility for the attack.

Professor Bari, Principal of the Tamir-i-Nau Public Model school and a former chairman of the Balochistan Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, was going to the school when the gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire at his car near Bhosa Mandi, killing him on the spot and injuring his driver Abdul Sattar.

<Dawn News>

5 Punjabi killed by Terrorists

LFThese Punjabis were not working in "Balochistan land", these were not "ISI agent", these were not belong to any army family, none of them were related to any Missing persons case, None of these have issue with Baloch sardars,nor these are Shia hazara,so this incident have no link with "minority rights" or "sectarian killing" also....So leave this incident!

پاکستان کے صوبہ بلوچستان کے علاقے مند بلو میں نامعلوم مسلح افراد کی فائرنگ سے پانچ افراد ہلاک اور چار زخمی ہوگئے ہیں۔ ہلا ک اور زخمی ہونے والے محنت مزدوری کے لیے پنجاب سے ایران جا رہے تھے۔

کوئٹہ سے بی بی سی کے نامہ نگار ایوب ترین کے مطابق کوئٹہ سے سات سوکلومیٹر دور ایران کے قریب بلوچستان کے سرحدی علاقے مند بلو میں بدھ کی شام نامعلوم افراد نے بس ٹرمینل پر اس وقت فائرنگ کی جب وہاں پنجاب کے علاقے سائیوال سے ایران جانے والے مزدور بس کے انتظار میں تھے۔


پولیس کے مطابق دو موٹرسائیکلوں پر سوار چار مسلح نقاب پوش افراد پہلے ٹرمینل میں داخل ہوئے اور مزدوروں پر فائرنگ کرنے کے بعد فرار ہو گئے۔
اس واقعے کے بعد پولیس اور فرنٹئیرکور کے اہلکار موقع پر پہنچ گئے اور ملزمان کی تلاش شروع کردی لیکن آخری اطلاع تک کوئی گرفتاری عمل میں نہیں آئی اور نہ ہی کسی نے ذمہ داری قبول کی تھی۔


یاد رہے کہ اس علاقے میں گزشتہ سال بھی پنجاب سے تعلق رکھنے والے مزدوروں پر حملہ ہوا تھا جس کی ذمہ داری بلوچ مزاحمت کاروں قبول کی تھی۔


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Blood of Non-Baloch For Balochistan: Nazima Taliba

Balochistan is the least development area of Pakistan. Allot of non-Baloch people who left their "developed province" and came in Balochistan to serve. From last few years, among these allot of people got bullets from the terrorists. The series of  "Blood of Non-Baloch For Balochistan" is dedicated to all those Non-Baloch who did not belong to Balochsitan,came here to serve and gave their lives. Their biggest crime was 'they were not Baloch or not born in Balochistan'!!!

Nazima Taliba, assistant professor at Balochistan University,was killed 29 Apr 2010 by B.L.A.She was the first woman who was target-killed in the province.

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