Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Three dead in Mastung bus attack
Updated on: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 5:48:33 PM
Staff Report
MASTUNG: At least three people were killed and several others wounded, including Levies personnel, when a suicide bomber smashed his car into a bus carrying pilgrims on Tuesday.
Children and women are also among the injured, who were shifted to Mastung hospital.
The bus was heading to Quetta when the attack took place on Taftan Road.
Mastung Commissioner confirmed the attack and said three people were killed.
The latest terror attack came five days after unknown gunmen shot and killed nine labourers in restive Mastung district.
Shia Ulema Council (SUC) has announced three days of mourning against the death of three pilgrims in the terror attack. SAMAA
Monday, September 17, 2012
رئیس امور زنان دایکندی از چنگ شورشیان آزاد شد
به روز شده: 12:26 گرينويچ - دوشنبه 17 سپتامبر 2012 - 27 شهریور 139
خانم رضایی به خانواده خود در کابل پیوسته است
حوا رضایی، رئیس امور زنان ولایت دایکندی از چنگ شورشیان در ولایت میدان وردک، در غرب کابل آزاد شد.
خانم رضایی دیروز (۲۶ سنبله/شهریور) هنگام سفر از دایکندی در مرکز افغانستان به کابل در دره میدان از سوی افراد مسلح ناشناس گروگان گرفته شد.
گزارشهای اولیه حاکی از آن بود که گروگان گیران خواستار پرداخت پول در مقابل آزادی او شده اند، اما دفتر حلیم فدایی، والی میدان میدان وردک در اعلامیه ای گفته که خانم رضایی بدون هر گونه "معامله" آزاد شده است.
در این اعلامیه آمده که خانم رضایی بر اساس تلاشهای نیروهای امنیتی و بزرگان قومی آزاد شده و به خانواده خود پیوسته است.
سلمان ارزگانی، والی دایکندی به بی بی سی گفت که پس از آزادی خانم رضایی، با او تلفنی صحبت کرده و در سلامتی کامل به سر می برد.
پیش از این روز ۱۸ سنبله/شهریور شاه ولی خان، فرمانده اداره جلب و جذب پلیس دایکندی از سوی شورشیان در دره غوربند هدف شلیک قرار گرفت و کشته شد.
جاده های ارتباطی که ولایت‌های مرکزی دایکندی و بامیان را از طریق دو دره میدان در غرب و غوربند در شمال کابل، با پایتخت وصل می کند، در ماه‌های اخیر به شدت ناامن شده و شورشیان در بخش‌هایی از این جاده‌ها نفوذ کرده اند.
گزارشها از میدان‌وردک حاکی است که شورشیان در منطقه جلریز ایست بازرسی ایجاد کرده و مسافران را بازرسی می‌کنند و در مواردی آنها را با خود می‌برند.
ظرف ماه‌های اخیر در چند مورد از قتل شماری از مسافران در این منطقه به دست شورشیان گزارش شده است.
شورشیان روز ۱۹ سنبله/شهریور شش مسافر را از موتر حامل آنها پیاده کردند و چند ساعت بعد پنج تن از آنها را در کنار جاده اصلی کابل-بامیان تیرباران کردند.
تا حال چند بار در اعتراض به ناامنی در این جاده در شهرهای کابل و بامیان تظاهرات برگزار شده، اما هنوز اقدام موثری برای
بهبود امنیت در این راه صورت نگرفته است.
Sunday, September 16, 2012
Team ‘believes’ something seriously wrong
By: Bari Baloch | September 17, 2012 |
QUETTA - The UN team visiting Quetta discussed the issue of missing persons with delegations of various nationalist parties and groups here on the second consecutive day, on Sunday.Separate delegations of Balochistan National Party-Mengal, Jamhoori Watan Party, Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party, Hazara Qumi Jirga and Shia Conference called on the UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances, here at a local hotel.BNP-Mengal acting President Dr Jahanzaib Jamaldini along with secretary information Agha Hassan Baloch, Kurshid Jamaldini and others met the UN mission being headed by Olivier de Frouville.The UN delegation avoided talking to the media, but Agha Hassan Baloch said the UN team told them that they had met with a large number of people and they have the impression that something was seriously wrong because of which the people are so worried and anxious.Talking to The Nation, Agha Hassan Baloch said that they presented a list of 62 leaders of BNP, including party’s former central secretary-general Habib Jalib Baloch, who were targeted killed. He said they told the UN officials that they were killed under a conspiracy.“The number of missing persons in Balochistan is above 14,000, however, the party had prepared a list of 1,000 missing persons and had already dispatched it to UN and other international organisations of human rights. It included 480 decomposed dead bodies found dumped from desolated areas of Balochistan – a fact which the government has also verbally accepted.”The BNP leader said that sheer violation of human rights was underway in Balochistan which had been started in dictatorial regime of Pervez Musharraf and it was continuing without any respite. “The BNP urged UN and other international human rights organisations for playing their due role in ending this violation of human rights, and that through a well-knitted plan political leaders and activists are being eliminated so that nobody could raise voice against the looting and plundering of the resources of the province,” he added.After meeting the UN team, Jahmoori Watan Party’s chief Talal Akbar Bugti told the media that he had apprised the UN officials about the extra judicial arrests, enforced disappearances, violation of human rights and recovery of mutilated dead bodies in Balochistan. “More than 13,000 people are missing in Balochistan. As we have no access to other areas therefore the JWP delegation presented a list of only 650 missing persons with complete details,” Talal Bugti said. However, he said that they had no “big expectations” from the UN because wherever it has interest it deploys its army and where it has no interest it keeps mum and does not show any serious concern.Sources said that a delegation of Hazara Qumi Jirga apprised the UN Working Group about the sectarian targeted killing of Hazara community and that the government was not playing its role in curbing such incidents. They urged upon the UN to exert pressure on government to ensure security to the Hazara community.
QUETTA - The UN team visiting Quetta discussed the issue of missing persons with delegations of various nationalist parties and groups here on the second consecutive day, on Sunday.Separate delegations of Balochistan National Party-Mengal, Jamhoori Watan Party, Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party, Hazara Qumi Jirga and Shia Conference called on the UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances, here at a local hotel.BNP-Mengal acting President Dr Jahanzaib Jamaldini along with secretary information Agha Hassan Baloch, Kurshid Jamaldini and others met the UN mission being headed by Olivier de Frouville.The UN delegation avoided talking to the media, but Agha Hassan Baloch said the UN team told them that they had met with a large number of people and they have the impression that something was seriously wrong because of which the people are so worried and anxious.Talking to The Nation, Agha Hassan Baloch said that they presented a list of 62 leaders of BNP, including party’s former central secretary-general Habib Jalib Baloch, who were targeted killed. He said they told the UN officials that they were killed under a conspiracy.“The number of missing persons in Balochistan is above 14,000, however, the party had prepared a list of 1,000 missing persons and had already dispatched it to UN and other international organisations of human rights. It included 480 decomposed dead bodies found dumped from desolated areas of Balochistan – a fact which the government has also verbally accepted.”The BNP leader said that sheer violation of human rights was underway in Balochistan which had been started in dictatorial regime of Pervez Musharraf and it was continuing without any respite. “The BNP urged UN and other international human rights organisations for playing their due role in ending this violation of human rights, and that through a well-knitted plan political leaders and activists are being eliminated so that nobody could raise voice against the looting and plundering of the resources of the province,” he added.After meeting the UN team, Jahmoori Watan Party’s chief Talal Akbar Bugti told the media that he had apprised the UN officials about the extra judicial arrests, enforced disappearances, violation of human rights and recovery of mutilated dead bodies in Balochistan. “More than 13,000 people are missing in Balochistan. As we have no access to other areas therefore the JWP delegation presented a list of only 650 missing persons with complete details,” Talal Bugti said. However, he said that they had no “big expectations” from the UN because wherever it has interest it deploys its army and where it has no interest it keeps mum and does not show any serious concern.Sources said that a delegation of Hazara Qumi Jirga apprised the UN Working Group about the sectarian targeted killing of Hazara community and that the government was not playing its role in curbing such incidents. They urged upon the UN to exert pressure on government to ensure security to the Hazara community.
Friday, September 14, 2012
Man killed in Quetta
September 14, 2012 - Updated 2124 PKT
From Web Edition
QUETTA: A man was killed in the Kashmirabad area of Quetta here on Thursday, police said.
Police sources said that armed men opened fire at a man on the Qambrani Road, in the precincts of Sariab police station, killing him on the spot.
The assailants managed to escape from scene.The dead body of deceased after the autopsy was handed over to heirs. Police registered a case and started search for the suspects.
From Web Edition
QUETTA: A man was killed in the Kashmirabad area of Quetta here on Thursday, police said.
Police sources said that armed men opened fire at a man on the Qambrani Road, in the precincts of Sariab police station, killing him on the spot.
The assailants managed to escape from scene.The dead body of deceased after the autopsy was handed over to heirs. Police registered a case and started search for the suspects.
A 13-year-old Hazara boy is killed, only to become a statistic
Last Saturday was just another day in 13-year-old Liaquat Ali's house in Quetta. The young Hazara boy's mother asked him to help her with some chores, but he wanted to go out. After some back and forth of her pleading and him refusing, he walked out. His father went back twice to persuade him to come back and help his mother with the chores.
"I have to go; you won't see me again," he said angrily to his mother. He was wrong. And he was right.
They did see him a short while later. By then, his body had bullet wounds, his bleeding wouldn't stop, and he was in a coma.
His father, Mohammad Akbar, is wracked with guilt. "They said he's unconscious. He never spoke again." Liaquat's words had come true in the most terrible way possible.
The ongoing massacre of Hazaras by extremists in Balochistan is part of the killing of Shias all across the country, which has left hundreds dead and thousands mourning. Millions more have been outraged by the lack of action by the government.
There was a protest demonstration on Brewery Road in Quetta that day against the violence against the Hazaracommunity, only a few minutes away from MohalaBagh where Liaquat Ali lived.
He left the house at 10:30 in the morning. A few minutes later, his father learned that a Hazaraneighbour from his street had become a victim of the violence. He went to their house to console the grieving family and waited for yet another body to arrive. At 11, it was him who needed consoling....Continue Reading....
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