Op-Ed: "Whatever is unfolding in Balochistan, KP and Azad Kashmir reflects a pushback against an elite-dominated power structure. Hundreds of political and human rights activists are said to be behind bars. The judiciary itself is shackled, restricting avenues for those seeking justice. News from these areas may be kept off the mainstream media, but reality cannot be hidden in the age of social media."
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“[Balochistan] crisis is getting out of control. Yet there seems to be little recognition of the seriousness of situation. Statements such as ‘we will fight until the last terrorist’ reflect the government’s disconnect with the situation on the ground.”
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“Any regimes that need changing, including the US, Israel & ours, need to be changed by the people, not by some bloated, lying, cheating, greedy, resource grabbing, bomb dropping imperial power & its allies, who are trying to bully the whole world into submission.”
Arundhati Roy
IT will be remembered as another low point in the history of Pakistan’s justice system. A lawyer couple standing beside citizens challenging human rights violations, been condemned by a sessions court for statements too controversial to be posted on “X” https://t.co/UovmVRxAR4
Fifteen people lost their lives, while 38 were injured in the blast that targeted a rally held at Quetta’s Shahwani Stadium to mark the 4th death anniversary of former Balochistan chief minister Sardar Attaullah Mengal, a veteran nationalist leader https://t.co/15lTauEq0P
کیا سیاسی جماعتیں اب سرکاری advice پر چلینگی ؟ 80 ارب سالانہ امن و امان پر 200 ارب کرپشن کی نذر کرنےوالی کٹھ پتلی حکومتیں اور سرکاری ادارے #بلوچستان کو تباھی کے دھانے پر لے آہے -
#بلوچستان#خودکش_حملہ
وہ شہید بیٹی اپنا پلو سنبھالے اور چادر درست کرتے ہوئے پورے وقار کے ساتھ اپنی مقتل گاہ میں خود چل کر گئی اور اپنے حصے کی گولیوں کا انتظار کرنے لگے وہ ذرا سا بھی نہیں گڑگڑائی کسی کے پاؤں نہیں پکڑے کیونکہ ...
وہ جانتی تھی کہ ان بیغیرت ہجڑوں کی جھوٹی مردانگی کی تسکین اس کے بےگناہ خون سے کم کسی چیز سے ممکن نہیں ...
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Dr. Mahrang Baloch speaks with clarity and conviction. She does not resort to baseless accusations or spread hate. Instead, she firmly and peacefully advocates for an end to violence, emphasizing the right of her people to live in peace and dignity.
“The state is offended and brands us terrorists and violent. But we are not violent. The state is armed, powerful, and ruthless. It uses violence to silence those who ask for justice. The practices once reserved for the Baloch, considered lesser citizens, are now expanding to other parts of Pakistan. Former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his party are now under the military's wrath. He is jailed. Is Imran Khan also a terrorist? Are members of his PTI party now "agents of hostile agencies"?
Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe.
#ArundhatiRoy
To the future or the past, to a time when though is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone-to a time when truth exists nd what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of doublethink-greetings!