The police said that Prof Dashtiyari of the Islamic Studies department of UoB was out for an evening walk on the main Sariab Road
when two unidentified armed men, riding a motorcycle, appeared and opened fire on him. Dr Dashtiyari sustained multiple bullet
wounds and succumbed to his injuries on the spot. The police reached the spot and shifted the body to the Civil Hospital.

A large number of teachers and students of the UoB reached the Civil Hospital and mourned the killing of Dr Dashtiari. Later, the body
was dispatched to Karachi for burial.

Dr Dashtiyari was associated with the UoB for the last three decades. He was born in 1953 in Lyari area of Karachi. After completing
his primary and higher education from Karachi, he joined the UoB and his association with the varsity lasted till his death.

The friends of Dr Dashtiyari remember him as a humble, sociable and down to earth human being, who had a good circle of friends in
the university and outside. He had authored several books and laid the foundation of a premier Balochi language academy in
Karachi.

Meanwhile, the UoB has been closed for three days from today (Thursday) to mourn the killing of Professor Dashtiyari. Balochistan
and Pashtoon nationalists parties strongly condemned the killing. Pashtoonkhawa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) in a press statement
strongly condemned the killing.

Balochistan Governor Nawab Zulfiqar Ali Magsi has expressed grief and sorrow over the killing of Dr Dashtiyari. In a statement, the
governor prayed that may Allah almighty rest the departed soul in eternal peace and give courage to the bereaved family to bear the
tragic loss.

End.


http://paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?239966


 Balochistan Unvarsity professor shot dead


 By Saleem Shahid

People gather near the body of Prof. Ghulam Hussain Saba Dashtiari, who was gunned down by unidentified gunmen on Quetta's Sariab road. —
Photo by PPI

QUETTA, June 1: Professor Ghulam Hussain Saba Dashtiari of Balochistan University was gunned down in Sariab area on Wednesday.

“Saba Dashtiari was hit by three bullets and died on the spot,” police said. He had been with the university for 31 years.

According to sources, Prof Dashtiari was walking with a student when masked men on a motorcycle shot him in front of the Helper Eye Hospital and
escaped. The place is about 500 metres from the Sariab police station.

Police took the body to the Civil Hospital where a large number of students gathered and protested against the murder. After autopsy, the body was
handed over to relatives who took it to Karachi for burial.

A man identifying himself as Saifullah, spokesman for the Ansarul Islam group, called the Quetta Press Club and claimed responsibility for the attack.

Prof Dashtiari was the third professor of Balochistan University to be shot dead.

Prof Saba Dashtiari was born in Karachi’s Lyari area in 1956. He did his matriculation from the Okhai Memon High School. He did his graduation and
post-graduation in Karachi as a private student. He held master’s degrees in Islamic studies and philosophy.

He started his career as a teacher in Haji Abdullah Haroon School in Karachi. He later joined the University of Balochistan as a lecturer in the
department of Islamic studies. He authored 24 books, first of which was on Islam and philosophy. He was also a poet and regularly attended literary
functions.

Family sources said that the funeral prayers would be held in Lyari and he would be buried in Mewashah graveyard at 11am on Thursday.

http://www.dawn.com/2011/06/02/balochistan-varsity-professor-shot-dead.html
Balochistan Univarsity
professor killed in Quetta

Thursday June 02, 2011



 QUETTA: Professor Dr Saba Dashtiyari, a senior member of the faculty of University of Balochistan,
was gunned down by some unidentified armed men on the Sariab Road in the provincial capital on
Wednesday afternoon.
COMMENTS:

 Baloch Society of North America Strongly condemn the killing of Baloch professor and ask the UN a full investigation into all Baloch killings and
disappearances in Pakistani and Iranian occupied Balochistan.

Baloch Society of North America (BSO-NA)
Suit 300
Washington D.C.,


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The murder of Prof Saba Dashtiari is deplorable in the strongest words. The Baloch have lost one of its bravest and most dedicated sons, and Balochi
has become orphan from this very day. Many years following the untimely death of Syed Zahur Shah Hashmi, he was a new hope for the future of
Balochi language and literature. He had opened libraries in Karachi and in many cities in Balochistan, started and monitored classes in Balochi
language, published well-researched books almost one in every year of his own and many others by other Baloch scholars (without any financial help
from any corners), and was, along with Dr Abdul Hameed Baloch, the moving spirit of the first encyclopedia dedicated to Balochistan, called
"Encycopaedia Balochistanica". He was like a machine in work and Balochi was the only love of his life. His every single minute was dedicated to
Balochi and Balochistan. He was too precious of a person to be lost. The Baloch nation will shed tears of blood on the loss of such a dedicated son.

Friends in Pakistan have told me on the phone that not even a single line has been dedicated to the loss of such a great son of the Baloch on the
Pakistani media which shows that the pain of the Baloch is not the pain of the rest of Pakistan. It is really deplorable. Murder of a scholar, a writer, a
poet, a serving university professor of Islamic studies does not deserve even a mention in Pakistani electronic media leaves us with no option but to
think that this is all planned and orchestrated.

Dr Badal Khan Baloch

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This indeed is a great loss. He was an itrepid son of soil.

Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur:

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I am shocked at the news of the brutal murder of Prof Saba Dashtyari. I pray God Almighty to rest his soul in peace and give strength to his family and
friends to bear this great loss ! Amin !

Only few days back I called him on the phone and told him that I heard his voice on BBC demanding azadi i.e. freedom of Balochistan ! He said that
was in a student protest meeting which was held for the disappearance and throwing mutilated dead bodies of Baloch youth.

He became emotional and demanded to end these cruel acts of Pakistani security agencies. He did not know that he also will be the target of the
same Pakistani agencies within few days.

He was a poet and prolific writer of Balochi language. I remember when he attended a conference at Uppsala University, Sweden in August, 2000 he
recited his famous poem in a cultural session with the title "Mani diwaal a kay prousheet ?" (Who will break my wall ?) with reference to The Wall of
Berlin.

He was an untiring person in his research of Balochi language.

Once Dr Badal Khan told him "Saba, taw yak mourey e paymaa yak paymaa suragaa ay" (Saba, you are always in movement like an ant).

He was always busy in writing or collecting the work of other Baloch writers.

Among his many books he compiled a valuable anthology of Balochi with the title of "Balochi Zubaan e Aakibat" (Issue of Balochi Language) in two
volumes.

Ameeri
Poetic Tribute to Shaheed Saba Dashtiyari by Mubarak Qazi




 Dedicated to Saba Dashtiari, the Martyr

By Mubarak Qazi (translated by Dr Badalkhan)

Hundreds of salutes to the shining moon of the 14th (of lunar
month),
Hundreds of salutes to the Saba (lit. “dawn”) of Dashtiari,
You are eternal in Baloch history,
Hundreds of salutes to your martyrdom,
You chose pen in the field of (national) struggle,
Hundreds of salutes to your immortal weapon,
The one, until not put down by death,
Hundreds of salutes to every sin of him (i.e. sin in the eyes of
oppressors),
Qazi, Saba lives inside his grave,
Hundreds of salutes to the beauty of us, writers.

KARACHI – June 02: Prof Ghulam Hussain Saba Dashtyari, who was killed by Pakistani Military dead squad in Quetta on Wednesday June 01, has
been laid to rest Thursday morning in Karachi.

His body was brought to Karachi from Quetta and then was taken to his residence in Bugti Chowk, Karachi. The burial took place Thursday morning 10:
00 where hundreds of Baloch students, poets, political persons, journalists and relatives were present to mourn the daring Prof Saba Dashtyari’s
killing.

“Saba Dashtiari was hit by three bullets and died on the spot,” police said. He had been with Balochistan University for 31 years.

A man identifying himself as Saifullah, spokesman for the Ansarul Islam group, called the Quetta Press Club and claimed responsibility for the attack.

Prof Dashtiari was the third professor of Balochistan University to be shot dead.

Prof Saba Dashtiari was born in Karachi’s Lyari area in 1956. He did his matriculation from the Okhai Memon High School. He did his graduation and
post-graduation in Karachi as a private student. He held master’s degrees in Islamic studies and philosophy.

He started his career as a teacher in Haji Abdullah Haroon School in Karachi. He later joined the University of Balochistan as a lecturer in the
department of Islamic studies. He authored 24 books, first of which was on Islam and philosophy. He was also a poet and regularly attended literary
functions.

Prof. Dashtyari also established Syed Zahoor Shah Hashmi reference library in Malir area of Karachi having more than 150 thousands books in various
languages particularly on Balochi literature, culture and civilization.
Prof Saba Dashtyari laid to
rest in Karachi