کوئٹہ: ٹارگٹ کلنگ کے خلاف دھرنا

ہزارہ ڈیموکرٹیک پارٹی نےگورنر بلوچستان سے مطالبہ کیا ہے کہ ہزارہ قبیلے کے افراد کی ٹارگٹ کلنگ روکنے کے لیے انتظامات کیے جائیں۔

گورنر نے یقین دہانی کرائی ہے کہ وہ جلد صوبائی حکومت سے بات کریں گے۔ دوسری جانب نامعلوم افراد کی فائرنگ سے ایک خاتون سمیت ہزارہ قبیلے کے دو افراد ہلاک ہوگئے ہیں۔

کوئٹہ سے بی بی سی کے نامہ نگار ایوب ترین کے مطابق جمعہ کے روز ہزارہ ڈیموکرٹیک پارٹی نے کوئٹہ سمیت صوبے کے دیگرعلاقوں میں ہزارہ قبیلے کی مسلسل ٹارگٹ کلنگ کے خلاف کوئٹہ میں گورنرہاؤس کے سامنے دھرنا دیا جو کئی گھنٹوں تک جاری رہا۔

اس دھرنے میں سینکڑوں کی تعداد میں نوجوانوں نے شرکت کی۔ دھرنے میں شریک مظاہرین نے ہاتھوں میں پلے کارڈ بھی اٹھا رکھے تھے جن پر صوبائی حکومت کے خلاف نعرے درج تھے۔

اس موقعے پر ہزارہ ڈیموکرٹیک پارٹی کے چیئرمین عبدالخالق ہزارہ نے کہا کہ ایک سوچے سمجھے منصوبے کے تحت ہزارہ برادری کو ٹارگٹ کیا جا رہا ہے اور صوبائی حکومت لوگوں کی جان اور مال کے تحفظ میں ناکام ہوچکی ہے۔

تاہم ہزارہ قبیلے سے تعلق رکھنے والے صوبائی وزیر جان علی چینگیزی نے کہا کہ مذہبی منافرت کی بنیاد پر شیعہ سنی کو لڑانے کی کوشش کی جا رہی ہے۔ ایک سنی کی ہلاکت کے بعد شیعہ مسلک سے تعلق رکھنے والوں کا ٹارگٹ کلنگ شروع ہوجاتی ہے۔ بقول ان کے پولیس نے چند افراد گرفتار کیے ہیں لیکن ابھی ٹارگٹ کلنگ کا سلسلہ بند نہیں ہوا ہے۔

بعد میں ہزارہ ڈیموکرٹیک پارٹی کے ایک وفد نے گورنر بلوچستان نواب ذوالفقار مگسی سے ملاقات کی۔

ملاقات میں گورنر بلوچستان نے وفد کو یقین دہانی کرائی کہ وہ جلد اس سلسلے میں وزیراعلی بلوچستان نواب اسلم رئیسانی سے بات چیت کریں گے۔ گورنر نے امن و امان کی صورتحال پر تشویش کا اظہار کرتے ہوئے سیکرٹری داخلہ نصیب اللہ بازئی کو کوئٹہ شہر میں سیکورٹی کے انتظامات سخت کرنے کی ہدایت کی۔

گورنر اور وفد کے درمیان مذاکرات جاری تھے کہ نامعلوم افراد نے کوئٹہ کے عبدالستار روڈ پر فائرنگ کرکے گھڑی ساز محمد علی کو ہلاک کر دیا جن کا تعلق بھی ہزارہ قبیلے سے تھا۔ جبکہ کاسی روڈ پر ہزارہ قبیلے سے تعلق رکھنے والی ایک خاتون بھی ٹارگٹ کلنگ کا نشانہ بنیں۔

خیال رہے کہ گزشتہ شب بھی کوئٹہ شہر میں فائرنگ کے دو مختلف واقعات میں ہزارہ قبیلے سے تعلق رکھنے والے تین افراد ہلاک اور دو زخمی ہوئے تھے۔

اس طرح گزشتہ دوہفتوں کے دوران کوئٹہ شہر میں ٹارگٹ کلنگ کے تحت ہزارہ قبیلے کےآٹھارہ افراد ہلا ک ہوچکے ہیں لیکن ابھی تک کسی تنظیم نے اسکی ذمہ داری قبول نہیں کی ہے۔

BBC URDU

Afghans give lantern to US as gift to protest lack of electricity

Civil activists in Afghanistan’s central province of Bamiyan have given a lantern as a symbolic gift to the US embassy in the capital Kabul to protest against lack of electricity in the province, Press TV reports.


The activists held a silent protest in front of the Afghan parliament on Tuesday to attract attention to the fact that they have not benefited from billions of dollars in aid from international community and that they are still without electricity.

“The US has failed to keep its promises. Over ten years on [since the US invasion of Afghanistan], we still don’t have electricity. By presenting this lantern as a gift to Obama, we want to raise our voice,” Hosaini Madani, a civil activist, toldPress TV.

The activists took the lantern to capital Kabul and gave it to Afghan parliamentarians and asked them to hand it over to the US embassy.

They also condemned the indifference of their government and of the international community to the plight of the people in the central province.

This is not the first time that the Bamiyan residents raise their voice against discriminative policies of the international community and Afghan government by such symbolic peaceful demonstrations.

In 2010, they paved the roads in Bamiyan with mud to protest against government’s indifference towards roads in the central province.

They also gave medals and certificates to their donkeys that help them bring potable water from the fountains. Through the certificates they appreciated the donkeys for their honest service.

In 2011, Bamiyan residents built a huge lantern and set it up in the city’s central intersection to protest lack of electricity. The junction was later called “Lantern Intersection.”

Such measures by the residents of Bamiyan have given them high reputation in staging peaceful and calm civil protests.

When Obama took office in 2009, he pledged to tackle social problems and improve public welfare for the Afghans. However, after more than three years of his presidency, most of the Afghans do not have access to basic living requirements such as electricity, safe drinking water and health services.

MN//MA

Press TV

Afghan Asylum-Seekers Found Near Bali Coast

Kate Lamb | Jakarta

Australian refugee groups have made contact with some 60 asylum-seekers adrift in waters off Bali after concerns their vessel had capsized. While authorities now hope to rescue the group, the refugees, including ethnic Hazaras from Afghanistan, now face detention in Indonesia.

After a distress call was made Thursday evening and all contact with the vessel was lost, authorities reported no sign of the boat Friday morning.

The boat was last reported off Sumbawa, a small island east of Bali. Sixty asylum seekers, including children, are thought to be on board.

Ian Rintoul of the Australian Refugee Action Coalition says hopes of finding survivors were dim until the group received a surprise phone call Friday afternoon.

“No, no, the boat hasn’t gone down," insisted Rintoul, "we just got a call about 10 minutes ago, we got a call from the boat. It's still floating, it is still adrift. I’d given up because we hadn’t heard anything from 2 o’clock, but it was from the same number and the same people… The engine has definitely failed, they are still needing assistance.”

While contact has been established, authorities are searching by land and sea to identify the exact location of the boat.

Thousands of refugees, mostly from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran, make the perilous journey through Indonesian waters ever year in the hope they will be granted asylum in Australia.

Indonesia is not a signatory to the U.N. refugee convention and often jails and deports asylum seekers awaiting refugee status.

The Australian government has drawn criticism in recent years for urging Indonesian authorities to pick up asylum seekers so they are processed in Indonesia, rather than Australia.

Ian Rintoul says the refugee coalition is still waiting to see what happens with this latest boat.

“If they are rescued by Indonesian authorities that may well be placed in detention in Indonesia and that is one of our concerns about the whole situation in Indonesia and the pressure from the Australian government pushing people to get on boats that aren’t as well prepared as they could be,” Rintoul said.

Last Sunday a Singapore-registered tanker rescued around 120 Australia-bound asylum seekers, mostly Afghans and some Iranians, from their sinking wooden boat.

They refused to get off the docked tanker for two days, saying they wanted to continue to Australia where their rights are more protected.

In December, a boat carrying around 250 mostly Afghan and Iranian asylum seekers sank in Indonesian waters on its way to Christmas Island. Only 47 survived.

Voice of America

تظاهرات گسترده هزاره‌ها در کویته پاکستان

به روز شده:  16:08 گرينويچ - جمعه 13 آوريل 2012 - 25 فروردین 

هزاره‌های پاکستان می گویند قتل‌های هدفمند گروه های مسلح، آنهارا به ستوه آورده است

هزاران نفر از شهروندان کویته مرکز ایالت بلوچستان پاکستان، در اعتراض به آنچه قتلهای هدفمند هزاره‌ها در این ایالت می خوانند، تظاهرات کردند.

این دومین روزی است که مرکز ایالت بلوچستان پاکستان شاهد تظاهرات گسترده هزاره ها است.

مراکز تجاری تعطیل است و هزاران نفر که به دعوت "حزب دموکراتیک هزاره ها" به خیابانها ریخته اند، می گویند اگر دولت به خواست آنها پاسخ مثبت ندهد، به این اعتراض ادامه خواهند داد.خبرنگاران می گویند تظاهرات دو روز گذشته، شهر کویته مرکز ایالت بلوچستان پاکستان را عملا فلج کرده است.

رهبران حزب دموکراتیک هزاره‌ها در بلوچستان پاکستان می گویند از سال گذشته میلادی تا کنون، بیش از ۱۵۰ تن از هزاره‌های پاکستان کشته شده اند.

قربانیان این حملات غیر نظامی اند، آنها در راه سفر به ایران در پاکستان، در هنگام عبور و مرور در شهر کویته و یا هم هنگام کار در مغازه های خود، در اثر حملات افراد مسلح کشته شده اند.

در یک‌ماه گذشته دست‌کم ۱۵ تن در حملات جداگانه در شهر کویته بلوچستان کشته شده اند که همه هزاره و از اهالی بلوچستان بوده اند.

هزاره های بلوچستان این قتلها را هدفمند می دانند و می گویند آنها از ادامه این وضعیت به ستوه آمده اند.

احمد کهزاد، رهبر حزب دموکراتیک هزاره‌ها از دولت پاکستان خواست بساط عاملان قتل هزاره‌ها را برچیند

مقام های دولتی در ایالت بلوچستان پاکستان نیز از ادامه این وضعیت نگرانند. آنها نیز پذیرفته‌اند که دولت تلاش لازم را برای جلوگیری از کشتار هزاره‌ها نکرده است.

نواب ذوالفقار مگسی فرماندار ایالت بلوچستان در دیدار باگروه هشت نفری حزب دموکراتیک هزاره گفته است حوادثی مانند قتل های هدفمند و تروریسم قابل تاسف است.

نواب مگسی از حکومت ایالتی و مرکزی خواست تا علیه گروه هایی که عامل این قتلها هستند اقدام کند. او هشدار داد که ادامه این وضعیت می تواند پاکستان را درگیر یک جنگ داخلی کند.

سال گذشته نیز اعتراض‌های مشابهی نسبت به آنچه قتل های سیستماتیک هزاره های خوانده شد، در کشورهای مختلف جهان در برابر نمایندگی های سیاسی پاکستان به راه افتاد.

احمد کهزاد، دبیرکل حزب دموکراتیک هزاره ها در گفتگو با نصیره محب، خبرنگار بی بی سی، گفت آنها از حکومت، نیروهای امنیتی و اطلاعاتی پاکستان می‌خواهند با راه اندازی عملیات فوری و وسیع بساط گروه ها و افرادی را که عامل قتل‌های زنجیره ای هزاره ها هستند، برچیند.

BBC URDU

Magsi vows to end target killing within Balochistan

By: Zuhaeb Nazir, Uploaded: 13th April 2012

QUETTA: Zulfiqar Magsi, Governor Balochistan, raised high concern for his province saying that he suspected a civil war to erupt if the bloodshed continued within the province as a result of target killings.

Convening a meeting with his provincial members and the Hazara democratic members, the governor, threw vast questions upon his cabinet members by blatantly expressing that there was no need for such a large cabinet when the security position within the province can not be improved.

The Governor was really stressed with the current law and order situation as he stated that Balochistan’s law enforcement officials had failed to control the security condition within the province. He further elaborated this by stating that individuals were killed on a regular basis within the province and not a single alleged person was arrested with respect to such horrendous acts.

Magsi was of the view that if the military was to be summoned to control the security condition within the province, it would create problems for the civil administration.

The Governor issued strict orders for Balochistan Home Secretary Naseebullah Bazai, instructing him to instigate an onslaught against the offenders.

AJ TV

Balochistan governor fears civil war in province

Members of the Ethnic Hazara Shia community mourn the killing of their relatives at a hospital in Quetta on April 9, 2012, following a targeted attack by gunmen.—AFP Photo

QUETTA: Governor Balochistan Nawab Zulfiqar Ali Magsi on Friday said he feared a civil war would erupt in the province if target killings continued unabated, DawnNews reported.

Speaking to provincial ministers and members of the Hazara Democratic Party, the governor questioned the strength of the cabinet, saying there was no need for a cabinet this large if the provincial government was unable to curtail the deteriorating law and order situation in the province.

“Time and again, more and more people are becoming victims of target killings, and not a single suspect has been taken into custody as yet. This is a proof of our government and law enforcement authorities’ failure,” said Magsi.

“If the military was summoned to restore the law and order in the province, then it will be problematic for the civilian government and the administration,” he added.

Magsi ordered the Provincial Home Secretary Naseebullah Bazai to immediately take notice of target killings and initiate a crackdown on the purported miscreants.

DAWN

Indonesia finds no sign of missing boat

Indonesian authorities say there has been no sign of a missing boat which was reported to be carrying dozens of Afghan refugees and had sent a distress signal.

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) said it had been contacted on Thursday afternoon by a refugee advocacy group which had spoken to people on the boat who said it was in distress.

AMSA said it had passed that message on to Indonesian authorities.

"There's no sign of the boat yet. Five rescue boats from police and the national search and rescue agency are near the area, and a helicopter is on its way," said Murtadi, a search and rescue official in Indonesia's West Nusa Tenggara province, on Friday.

He said they were searching off the coast of Sumbawa island, near the resort island of Bali.

A refugee advocacy group based in Brisbane said it had received a distress phone call from someone on the boat on Thursday, and alerted AMSA.

"Given the message was the vessel was actually sinking, we acted pretty quickly to contact the Indonesians," an AMSA spokesman told AFP.

He said Australian authorities had been told the boat was carrying about 60 people and was off Sumbawa island.

Ian Rintoul, the Australian refugee advocate who alerted AMSA, spoke to some of the people on the boat on Thursday.

"They could see Sumbawa but the boat was starting to drift to sea. The boat was starting to take water. The seas were pretty rough," he told AFP.

They were "extremely, extremely distressed - verging on hysterical at times," he said.

The refugees on board were mostly ethnic Hazaras from Afghanistan, with some children on board, according to Rintoul's information.

On Sunday a Singapore-registered tanker rescued about 120 Australia-bound asylum seekers - all males and mostly Afghans and some Iranians - from their sinking wooden boat.

They disembarked in Indonesia after two days of refusing to get off the docked tanker and insisting they be allowed to continue their journey to Australia.

Thousands of asylum seekers head through South-East Asian countries on their way to Australia every year and many link up with people smugglers in Indonesia for the dangerous voyage, often on rickety, overloaded boats.

In December, a boat carrying about 250 mostly Afghan and Iranian asylum seekers sank in Indonesian waters on its way to Christmas Island. Only 47 people survived.

MSN