Report: Protest Rally against Army
Operation in Balochistan
29 January 2006
Karachi:A big rally was staged here on
Sunday to protest against the ongoing
military action and the alleged human
rights violations in Balochistan.The rally
was organized by the Karachi-based
Balochistan Yekjehti
Committee(collaboration with Balochistan
National Party, Jamhoori Watan Party,
Baloch National Movement, Baloch Unity
Conference, Baloch Students Organization
and Baloch Community Network) to
express solidarity with the struggle by
Baloch people in Balochistan. Baloch
people in large numbers from various
areas of Karachi, including Lyari, Malir,
Golimar, Jehangir Road, Manghopir and
Mauripur participated in the rally. They were
carrying portraits of Baloch leaders, including Nawab Khair Bakhsh Marri, Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, Sardar Attaullah Khan Mengal Anwar
Bhaijan and Dr.Allah Nazar Baloch.The protesters converged on Baloch Chowk (Chakiwara) at 3:30pm before starting a march in
different Baloch-dominant localities of Lyari. They were chanting slogans against the military action and in support of the national rights
of Baloch people. Many prominent Baloch leaders, including Leader of the Baloch National Movement Ghulam Mohammad
Baloch,Baloch Community Network Shahid Baloch, Zahid Barkzai, Baloch Unity Conference Abdul Samad Baloch, Anwar Baloch,
Balochistan National Party, Zahid Hussain, Jamhoori Watan Party, Rauf Sasooli, Saleem Baloch, and different baloch leader including
Yusuf Mastikhan, Usman Baloch, Yusuf Naskandi, , Anwar Baloch, Akram Baloch, Nasir Karim, and Wahab Baloch, participated in the
rally and march, which appeared to an impressive show of solidarity.
The protesters marched through the streets of Baghdadi, Shah Beg lane, Kalri, Gul
Mohammad Lane, Nawa Lane Kalakot and other localities for three hours and
returned to Chawkiwara where they were addressed by Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti’s
nephew, Murtaza Bugti, and leader of the BNM Ghulam Mohammad Baloch, Baloch
Unity Conference Samad Baloch, Baloch Community Network, Shahid Baloch and
Wahab Baloch. Murtaza Bugti thanked the participants and all Baloch people living
in Karachi for expressing their solidarity with their brethren in Balochistan who, he
said, were facing army action for demanding their due rights on the resources of
their own province. He said Baloch people could no more be befooled in the name
of development as they were fully aware of the rulers’ ‘nefarious designs’. He
further stated that plight of Baloch people was the same everywhere in the country,
adding that the rulers’ intention of loot and plunder was now exposed.
He claimed that owing to the military operation, as many as 10,000 Bugti tribesmen had to flee their houses and take shelter in
Naseerabad, Jaffarabad and other safe areas. He said that the Baloch people’s struggle for their national rights had now entered
the decisive phase, and time was not too far when the rulers would have not option but to recognize the rights. Condemned the
military operation, he asked the government to stop using the brute force against civilians in Balochistan, and declared that the
Baloch people would never withdraw from their due rights.
The Baloch leader told the emotionally-charged crowd that thousands of people were being dislodged from their ancestral lands in
that province, and urged the UN and the international community to take direct action to save the innocent Baloch people from the
‘atrocities by the Pakistan army’.
(if you want more information regarding this rally so contact)
Shahid Baloch
Media In-charge
Balochistan Yakjehti Committee (Karachi)
Coordinator
Baloch Community Network (BCN)
E.Mail: Karachi Baloch organization <>
Baloch Society Of North America (BSO_NA) Baloch Society Of North America (BSO_NA) is Non-Profit Organization, working to unite and Organize all Baloch in North America, to expose the Occupation and Oppressive policies of Pakistani and Iranian Governments against Baloch people and our Baloch land (Balochistan), and to bring their Human Rights Violations in Balochistan into the world’s Notice.
