Chief Minister Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah and PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari: I demand your immediate explanation. Just now, law enforcement personnel and intelligence officials raided my family home without my knowledge or presence. If this has been carried out under your government, you owe the public an explanation. If it has not, then you have a responsibility to explain who is operating with such impunity in Sindh.
This follows repeated visits to our home over the past week, amounting to a sustained pattern of intimidation and harassment directed at me and my family.
My family home has been empty for the past two days. During that time, police and intelligence personnel have repeatedly come to the property, arriving in approximately fifteen vehicles and harassing my neighbours.
I am placing on public record my grave concern over this unlawful intrusion. Any unauthorized entry into my home raises serious fears about my family’s safety, the integrity of our property, and the possibility that evidence could be planted, surveillance devices installed, or my residence otherwise compromised in an attempt to fabricate allegations against me or malign my name. Given the continued harassment of human rights defenders, these are not abstract fears.
I demand immediate answers. Which agency entered my family’s home? Under whose authority was this operation carried out? Was there any warrant authorizing this raid? If so, it must be produced without delay. If there are any allegations against me, the law provides clear legal procedures. Secretive raids, repeated visits, and unlawful intrusions into my family’s residence are not among them.
My family’s home is not a crime scene. It is not a place where state institutions can enter at will, intimidate our neighbours, or conduct unexplained operations without accountability.
I am also placing this on record: if anything is removed from my family’s home, if anything is later claimed to have been recovered from it, or if any case is built against me on the basis of evidence allegedly found there following today’s illegal intrusion, I will hold the authorities fully responsible. I likewise hold them responsible for my family’s safety, for any damage to our property, and for anything that may subsequently happen to our home as a consequence of today’s unlawful entry.
PAKISTAN: Today marks 17 years since the enforced disappearance of Deen Muhammad Baloch, who was taken from his place of work, Khuzdar Civil Hospital, on 28 June 2009. Despite repeated petitions to the courts, appeals to authorities, and tireless advocacy by his family, his whereabouts remain unknown.
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
This oppression is not only growing a little bird to be against it, but also making him to be capable to look into her eyes with fierce revenge.
#Resistance
Mahrang Baloch should not be in prison. Women and girls in Balochistan have suffered for years as their male family members were routinely arrested and forcibly disappeared. They deserve the life that everyone deserves: daughters who can go to school, fathers who come home at night.
I stand with my sisters in Pakistan who face harassment and abuse, who are imprisoned for speaking out. This is not new — throughout our history women like Asma Jahangir, Farida Shaheed, Khawar Mumtaz, Hina Jilani and even Fatima Jinnah suffered persecution for standing up. Today, it is Imaan Mazari and Mahrang Baloch.
Rather than addressing the horror of forced disappearances, the anti-terrorism court is targeting those who speak out against the oppression. Mahrang and her fellow activists must be released.
We unequivocally condemn the life sentences handed down by Pakistan’s Anti-Terrorism Court in Quetta against prominent Baloch human rights defender Dr. Mahrang Baloch and fellow activist Sibghatullah Shah.
This ruling linked to a 2024 protest in Gwadar during which a paramilitary soldier was killed represents a blatant misuse of counter-terrorism legislation to penalize peaceful activism against enforced disappearances and state repression in Balochistan. Dr. Baloch, a leading figure in the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC), has consistently advocated non-violently for accountability and justice.
We call on Pakistani authorities to release Dr. Mahrang Baloch and Sibghatullah Shah immediately, subject their convictions to an independent review, and uphold the rights of all human rights defenders.
We further urge the United Nations and the broader international community to closely monitor the situation in Balochistan, press for transparent investigations, and hold Pakistan accountable to its international human rights commitments.
🚨🚨#BREAKING: French newspaper claims recently sentenced lifetime imprisonment @MahrangBaloch_ nominated for the Nobel peace prize for the consecutive 2nd year. https://t.co/PbbZE3YGYd
🚨The apartheid regime called Nelson Mandela a "terrorist" and threw him in a dark cell for 27 years!
Today, #Pakistan is pulling the exact same cowardly playbook by sentencing Dr. Mahrang Baloch to life imprisonment. 1/3
PAKISTAN: Reacting to the life sentences given by Quetta’s Anti-Terrorism court to Baloch activists Mahrang Baloch and Sibghat Ullah Shah Jee on 22 June, Amnesty International said:
“This verdict, which is an affront to the right to a fair trial, demonstrates how Pakistan’s anti-terrorism laws are being cynically misused to silence peaceful dissent. The conviction and sentence followed an expedited secret trial conducted on jail premises, during which serious concerns were raised over international fair trial standards and due process. No direct evidence was presented linking Mahrang and Shah Jee to the alleged violence.”
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This verdict, which is an affront to the right to a fair trial, demonstrates how Pakistan’s anti-terrorism laws are being cynically misused to silence peaceful dissent.
https://t.co/X2cpyNzCG0
ماہ رنگ بلوچ کو عمر قید سنانا دراصل نوجوانوں کو یہ پیغام دینا ہے کہ یہاں پرامن جدوجہد کی کوئی گنجائش نہیں مگر تاریخ گواہ ہے کہ عطاء اللہ مینگل، خیربخش مری، بینظیر بھٹو، نواز شریف اور عمران خان سمیت کئی سیاسی رہنماؤں کو سزائیں ملیں اور وقت نے فیصلہ کیا کہ کون درست تھا اور کون غلط۔
War is completely justified when the people are left with no hope and choice. It is the phenomenon of natural human consciousness to adopt a situation to survive in an unfavourable circumstances.
They think which we don’t think. Our hero’s (poet, writer, intellectual, warrior, politician etc) by killing or incarcerating them undermines us but we celebrate theirs a little bit nourishing on every sphere of our lives.
🇵🇰 For nearly one year, Gulzadi Baloch has been in unlawful pretrial detention; taken from her home by counter‑terrorism officials and cut off from the life she once knew.
Her sister recalls those terrifying first hours when no one knew where Gulzadi had been taken - hours filled with fear and panic.
While Gulzadi’s arrest has stripped away her freedom, peaceful protest and expression have also been silenced across Balochistan.
Just this month, families of detained activists were barred from holding a press conference at Quetta Press Club.
Pakistani authorities must release Gulzadi and all arbitrarily detained Baloch activists immediately.
👉 Join our urgent action to demand their freedom
📝 https://t.co/E9bwQUHBOZ
#ReleaseGulzadi #ReleaseBalochActivists
پہلے ڈاکٹر ماہ رنگ بلوچ پر بے بنیاد الزامات اور جھوٹی بیانیہ سازی کی گئی اور پھر انہی الزامات کی بنا پر انہیں اور ان کی ساتھیوں سمیت ایک سال سے جیل میں قید رکھا گیا۔ اب ڈاکٹر صبیحہ بلوچ کو مسلح تنظیموں سے جوڑ کر بے بنیاد الزامات اور پروپیگنڈے کے ذریعے پسایا جا رہا ہے۔
ریاست کا یہ معمول بن چکا ہے کہ وہ پُرامن سیاسی کارکنوں کو مسلح تنظیموں سے جوڑ کر انہیں اپنی جدوجہد سے روکنے کی کوشش کرتی ہے۔ انہی ہتھکنڈوں اور منفی پالیسیوں کے نتیجے میں ریاست خود پُرامن سیاست کے دروازے بند کر کے لوگوں کو تشدد کی راہ اختیار کرنے پر مجبور کر رہی ہے۔ ہم بار بار یہ بات کہہ چکے ہیں کہ اگر بلوچستان میں پُرامن سیاست کو ختم کر دیا گیا تو آگے ریاست کے لیے حالات مزید پیچیدہ ہو جائیں گے۔
پہلے بھی اسکرپٹڈ میڈیا ٹرائل کے ذریعے کئی افراد کی زندگیاں تباہ کی گئیں اور بجائے اس سے سبق سیکھنے کے ریاست ان کو مزید طول دے رہی ہے۔ ماہل بلوچ کو بھی بے بنیاد میڈیا ٹرائل کا سامنا کرنا پڑا مگر آخر میں عدالت نے انہیں باعزت بری کر دیا جس سے یہ ثابت ہوتا ہے کہ میڈیا ٹرائل محض منفی پروپیگنڈے کے سوا اور کچھ نہیں۔ بی وائی سی اور ڈاکٹر صبیحہ بلوچ پر منفی بیانیہ سازی بلوچستان میں پُرامن سیاست کو ختم کرنے کی ایک کوشش ہے۔
Revolution is not only name of romanticism, opposition to opponents but also it entails to it discipline, cohesiveness, cohesion and belief in ideological principles.