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Baloch students continue to protest against enforced disappearances, colle
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
Protests against enforced disappearances and the closure of Bolan Medical College (BMC) and its hostel persist in Uthal and Quetta, Balochistan. Students at LUAWMS demand the recovery of missing student Bayandur Baloch, detained alongside three friends, while BMC students call for reopening
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Baloch students continues protest, accuse authorities of repressing educat
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
Students of Bolan Medical College (BMC) in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan continued their sit-in protest on Thursday, demanding the reopening of both their institution and its hostels.
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Quetta students protest over Pakistani forces occupation of Bolan Medical
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
Quetta students have set up a protest camp outside Bolan Medical College (BMC), calling for the reopening of the institution and its hostels, which they allege have been "taken over" by the Pakistan forces.
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Turbat police target Baloch Yakjehti Committee members with unlawful FIR
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
Mahrang Baloch condemned the heinous act of police and stated, "On November 24, the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) organized a peaceful seminar in Turbat City on the ongoing Baloch genocide
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Pakistan: Kidnapping of 10-year-old sparks protests, paralyses Balochistan
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
The protestors blocked major highways connecting Balochistan to Sindh, Punjab, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with barricades and boulders. In Quetta, vehicles remained off the roads, and railway services, including the Quetta-Chaman passenger train, were suspended. Dawn reported that transporters c
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Pak: Passengers stranded at Quetta railway station amid employees' protest
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
Pakistan's Quetta railway station turned chaotic as over 1,000 passengers were stranded following a protest by railway employees.
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Pakistan: BVJ to hold protest in Quetta for Naseeb Ullah Badini's 10th ann
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
A protest will be held in Quetta on Sunday to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Naseeb Ullah Badini's enforced disappearance. The rally is set for 3:00 pm outside the Quetta Press Club, according to the rights organisation Baloch Voice for Justice (BVJ).
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Pakistan: Student preparing for public service exams abducted from Quetta
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
Pakistan military forces have reportedly abducted a student preparing for the Public Service Commission examinations from Quetta, Balochistan during a raid on Thursday.
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Schoolchildren protest in Quetta demanding safe return of abducted boy
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
Enforced disappearances in Balochistan have been a long-standing and deeply troubling issue, with thousands of individuals, particularly from the Baloch ethnic community, forcibly taken by security forces or paramilitary groups, often without explanation or legal process.
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Traders demand reopening of closed Pakistan-Iran border points
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
Pakistan's heavy-handed restrictions on border trade with Iran have plunged the border towns of Balochistan's Rakhshan and Makran divisions into turmoil, crippling the local economy and intensifying poverty in one of the country's most neglected provinces, according to a report by Dawn.
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Pakistan: Alarming surge in forced disappearances in Balochistan
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
According to the Balochistan Post, two men from the Mashkay area in Balochistan's Nookjo locality were detained by Pakistani forces on November 11
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Protesters block Quetta-Chaman highway over abduction of 11-year-old
Updated : 1 year, 3 months ago IST
Angry protesters, including tribesmen and relatives of an 11-year-old boy abducted in Balochistan, blocked the Quetta-Chaman highway on Saturday, causing significant traffic disruptions. Despite police raids, the boy remains missing, prompting solidarity actions like a shutdown by jewellers.
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