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Thursday, September 27, 2012

Balochistan security case: Akhtar Mengal presents 5 recommendations in SC

By Web Desk
Published: September 27, 2012


Mengal says it is the first time in history of Balochistan that they are being summoned to court as accused. PHOTO: REUTERS/FILE

QUETTA: Balochistan National Party (BNP) leader and former Chief Minister Balochistan Akhtar Mengal presented five recommendations for the province in court and said that pardons and packages would not solve the Balochistan crisis,Express News reported on Thursday.

Mengal made these remarks after the Balochistan security case which was underway in the Supreme Court’s Quetta Registry.

He recorded his comments in the court and said that the missing people should be recovered and their kidnappers should be brought to court.

Mengal also said that whoever was involved in target killings, be it of the Baloch or Hazaras, should be brought to justice.

The former chief minister said that those responsible for Bugti’s murder should be punished, while migrants should be provided settlements.

“It is for the first time in the history of Balochistan that we are being summoned to court as the accused,” said the former minister.

Mengal said that 450 mutilated bodies have been recovered, whose cause of death was no earthquake or tsunami.

Speaking on Dera Bugti, he said: “Dera Bugti is in the state that Bugti’s own wife and children cannot visit his grave.”

“Talks can be held only after these matters are resolved,” he said.

Balochistan govt urged to evolve strategy on targeted killings

By Safiullah

QUETTA: Expressing concern over the incidents of sectarian targeted killings, Senate’s Standing Committee on Human Rights on Wednesday urged the Balochistan government to evolve a comprehensive strategy to curb such incidents.

The meeting of the committee was held with Senator Afrasiab Khattak in the chair. The committee’s members, president’s spokesman Farhatullah Babar, Senator Mushahidullah Khan, Senator Mushahid Hussain, Farhat Abbass and Balochistan government officials were present on the occasion.

During the meeting, the notables of Hazara community, religious scholars and the relatives of people killed in sectarian targeted killing incidents briefed the committee that more than 700 people of Hazara community had been killed in sectarian targeted killing incidents. “We have taken this issue with provincial and federal authorities but no serious attention was paid in this regard,” they informed the committee, adding that most of the relatives of Hazara community people who had been killed since 1999 were not given compensation. They told the standing committee that the provincial government had failed to provide them security.

At this, Senator Afrasiab Khattak and Senator Mushaid Hussain told them that the committee would visit Quetta to hear their grievances and present them in the Upper House of parliament.

They assured the relatives of the deceased that steps would be taken for security of all affected people, including the people of Hazara community.

Committee’s chairman observed that Balochistan was confronted with many issues and they were well cognisant of the issues, adding that there was also the issue of missing persons and sectarian targeted killings but the standing committee would take up all issues one by one.

On the occasion, relatives of Sunni religious scholars who were killed in incidences of targeted killing also met with the members of the committee and told them that 36 religious scholars had been killed since 2010. They said that besides targeting religious scholars, several accused were also arrested by police, but the government was not cooperating with them. “The provincial government even did not bother to know the condition of the affected families,” they added.

Committee’s Chairman Afrasiab Khattak assured the victims’ families of every possible help and told them that the purpose of their visit was to meet the victims’ families and hear their grievances. He said that all the affected families were oppressed and there was no difference among various sects.

Afghan burqa opponent wins Swedish rights prize


                                     

By AFP
Published: September 27, 2012


Sima Samar was honoured “for her longstanding and courageous dedication to human rights -- especially women's right. PHOTO: AFP/FILE

STOCKHOLM: Afghan human rights activist, ex-minister and burqa opponent Sima Samar on Thursday won the Swedish Right Livelihood Award honouring those who work to improve the lives of others.

Samar, 55, was honoured “for her longstanding and courageous dedication to human rights, especially the rights of women, in one of the most complex and dangerous regions in the world,” the jury said in a statement.

A medical doctor by training, Samar fled to Pakistan in 1984 when her husband disappeared following his arrest by Afghanistan’s communist regime.

She returned in 2001 to become her country’s first minister of women’s affairs, but had to resign after just six months after she criticised sharia law in an interview in Canada.

She was in 2002 named the head of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, which she still leads, and was from 2005 to 2009 the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Sudan.

Samar shares the 2012 Right Livelihood Award with American political theorist Gene Sharp, 84, whom the jury described as “the world’s foremost expert on non-violent revolution”, and a non-governmental organisation compaigning for an end to British arms exports, Campaign Against Arms Trade.

An honorary prize was awarded to 90-year-old Hayrettin Karaca, “considered the grandfather of the Turkish environmental movement,” the jury said.

Swedish-German philatelist Jakob von Uexkull founded the donor-funded prize in 1980 after the Nobel Foundation behind the Nobel Prizes refused to create awards honouring efforts in the fields of the environment and international development.

For this reason, the Right Livelihood Award Foundation oftens calls its distinction the “alternative Nobel prize.”

The three Right Livelihood winners share the prize sum of 150,000 euros ($193,000).

سیما سمر جایزه «نوبل الترناتیف» را به دست می آورد



افغانستان

داکتر سیما سیمر، مبارز حقوق زنان و رییس کمیسیون مستقل حقوق بشر افغانستان جایزه «نوبل الترناتیف» را به خاطر استقامت و فداکاری اش در راه تامین حقوق بشر به دست می آورد. او پیش از این چند بار نامزد جایزه صلح نوبل بوده است.


بنیاد جایزه «نوبل الترناتیف» که در استکهلم مستقر است، روز پنج شنبه (6 میزان 1391/ 27 سپتمبر 2012) برندگان این جایزه را اعلام کرد. هیات داوران گفت که جایزه «نوبل الترناتیف» به خانم سمر به خاطر «استقامت و فداکاری دلیرانه اش برای حقوق بشر، به خصوص حقوق زنان، در یکی از خطرناکترین و پیچیده ترین مناطق جهان»، تعلق گرفته است.

در مجموع 122 تن برای کسب این جایزه نامزد بودند، اما از میان آنها داکتر سیما سمر همراه با دو تن دیگر از ترکیه و ایالات متحده امریکا و یک نهاد بریتانیایی، موفق به دریافت این جایزه شدند. قرار است این جایزه به تاریخ هفتم دسمبر در پارلمان سویدن به این افراد اهدا گردد.

برای داکتر سیما سمر، جین شارپ امریکای و نهاد «کمپاین علیه تجارت سلاح» که در بریتانیا مستقر است، مبلغ 64 هزار دالر امریکایی نیز داده می شود، در حالی که حیرالتین کراچه، تاجر ترکی جایزه افتخاری را کسب می کند.

توماس روتیش، یکی از دو مدیر شبکه تحلیلگران افغانستان به خبرگزاری آلمان گفت که سیما سمر «در یک محیط بسیار نامساعد» به حیث رییس کمیسیون مستقل حقوق بشر کار کرده است. به گفته او، این کمیسیون همواره زیر فشار شدید حکومت قرار داشته است، به گونه مثال، حکومت افغانستان مانع نشر گزارش این کمیسیون در مورد جنایت های جنگی شده است.

روتیش می گوید کارمندان کمیسیون مستقل حقوق بشر «همچنان از چند سال بدین سو ادعا می نمودند که حمایت دولت های دموکراتیک غربی از آنها کمتر شده است». روتیش افزود: «همچنان این جایزه با توجه به این که سربازان غربی از افغانستان خارج می شوند، یک علامت سیاسی است مبنی بر این که افغانستان فراموش نمی شود».

یاکوب فون اوکسکول، نظریه پرداز و تمبرشناس آلمانی سویدنی در سال 1980 بعد از آن «جایزه نوبل الترناتیف» را اساس گذاشت که «بنیاد جایزه نوبل» از تاسیس جایزه ای برای تلاش ها در بخش محیط زیست و توسعه بین المللی ابا ورزید.



سیما سمر در یک کشور سنتی و محافظه کار در تظاهرات خیابانی زنان شرکت می کرد.

جایزه «نوبل الترناتیف» سالانه برای مبارزان و فعالان حقوق بشر، صحت، حفظ محیط زیست، آموزش و صلح داده می شود.

زندگي نامه داكتر سيما سمر

داكتر سيما سمر در سال 1336 خورشيدي در ولسوالي جاغوري ولايت غزني تولد شد و تعليمات دوره مكتبش را در جاغوري و ولايت هلمند به پايان رساند. خانم سمر پس از فراغت از مكتب به دانشكده طب دانشگاه كابل راه يافت و در سال 1361 از اين رشته فارغ شد.

سيما سمر پس از پايان تحصيلاتش در عرصه خدمات طبي مصروف كار شد و به شمول كابل، در زادگاهش جاغوري خدمات طبي عرضه كرد.

در سال 1984 عبدالغفور سلطاني، شوهر سيما سمر كه در دانشگاه كابل مصروف تدريس بود از سوي ر‍‍ژيم كمونيستي بازداشت و ناپديد شد. سپس خانم سمر افغانستان را ترك و در كويته پاكستان مهاجر شد.

خانم سمر یک مركز صحي در كويته تاسيس كرد و در آن به تداوي مهاجران پرداخت. او در سال 1989 موسسه اي را به نام "شهدا ارگنايزيشن" ايجاد كرد و از طريق اين موسسه خدمات طبي و تعليمي را براي مهاجران افغان در كويته و همچنان مناطق محروم افغانستان ارايه مي كرد.

سيما سمر از طريق اين موسسه توانست مكاتبي را براي دختران در شماري از ولايت های افغانستان اعمار كند. مناطقی که در آنجا از سوی داکتر سمر مکتب اعمار می شد، آن وقت از سوی دولت هیچ گونه حمایتی دریافت نمی کردند.

تمويل مكاتب مخفي

خانم سمر در سال هايي كه طالبان بر افغانستان مسلط بودند، چندين مكتب و مراكز آموزشي مخفي و زيرزميني را در كابل و غزني تمويل مي كرد. او توانست در اثر تلاش هايش 10 كلينيك، چهار شفاخانه و ده ها مكتب را براي دختران و كودكان افغان در نقاط مختلف افغانستان اعمار كند.

سیما سمر نخستين زن در افغانستان بود كه پس از شكست طالبان در سال 2001 مقام معاون رييس جمهور را به دست آورد. اين پست در كنفرانس تاريخي بن آلمان، به خانم سيما سمر اختصاص داده شد.

همچنان سمر نخستين زن افغان بود كه به عنوان معاون رييس دولت و وزير امور زنان افغانستان در 24 اپريل 2002 در جلسه شوراي امنيت سازمان ملل متحد سخنراني كرد.

خانم سمر از 22 دسامبر 2001 تا 22 جون 2002 به عنوان معاون آقاي كرزي و وزير امور زنان افغانستان فعاليت كرد.

داکتر سمر در حال حاضر رييس كميسيون مستقل حقوق بشر افغانستان است. وي چندين جايزه بين المللي را به دليل فعاليت هاي حقوق بشري اش به دست آورده است.

حسین سیرت، عارف فرهمند (دی پی ای، فرانس پرس، اسوشیتدپرس)

ویراستار: رسول رحیم

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

ٹارگٹ کلنگ: پوری کی پوری کمیونٹی محصور ہے


صحافی اور تجزیہ نگار صدیق نے بلوچستان میں ہزارہ برادری اور شیعہ برادری کے حالات پر بی بی سی اردو کی عنبر خیری سے بات کرتے ہوئے کہا ہے کہ حالات ایسے ہو گئے ہیں کہ آئے دن ہونے والے فرقہ وارانہ حملوں کی وجہ سے پوری کی پوری ہزارہ کمیونٹی محصور ہو کر رہ گئی ہے۔

Pakistan's Other Taliban

Editor in Chief, 'The Baloch Hal'; Author; Contributing Writer


...........LeJ's dramatic rise is perturbing for the following reasons.
All top LeJ commanders in Balochistan come from lower-middle class Baloch families. The Balochs have historically remained a secular people with rare connections with forces that fought in the name of religion. Hundreds of Muslim religious schools established across Balochistan with the covert funding of Saudi Arabia and Pakistani government to counter the ongoing Baloch separatist movement richly provide manpower to Muslim extremist groups.
Left-wing Baloch nationalists admit that self- Jihadist groups are actively engaged in employing young Balochs from religious schools for their unholy battles. The regional nationalists describethis phenomenon as a "deliberate policy" of the Pakistani intelligence agencies to undermine their movement. Radical Islam, they say, is used as an antidote to address mounting anti-Pakistan sentiments in Balochistan.
At present, there are no overt tensions between Baloch nationalists and neo-Jihadists in the Baloch-populated districts. The nationalists say they are already engaged in a full-fledged battle against the Pakistani government and cannot afford to open another front against extremist Islamic groups. But the current non-interference policy in each other's operations may not last long. Tensions have been brewing, although slowly.
According to LeJ accounts, all of the organization's key leaders come from Baloch families....Continue Reading......