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Risky business?--Running
a Baloch website: Dr. Arif Barakzai, a member of
the BSO and
a lecturer at Uppsala University in Sweden, died after
'falling' 11 floors from the balcony of his apartment on
Jan 10, 2008. Dr. Barakzai ran a website devoted to Baloch
culture: http://bizmkaar.com.
It is unknown what if anything Norwegian authorities have
determined about the circumstances of Dr. Barkazai's death. Munir
Mengal is still imprisoned in Pakistan, in part, for
his relationship with the website balochvoice.com.
Balach Marri ran balochvoice.com until his death in November
2007. In 2006 Reporters
Without Borders condemned a decision by the Pakistan
Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to block four Baluch
nationalist websites for carrying "misleading information." Others
who have suffered the long reach of Pakistan agencies include:
Samiullah Baloch, a social activist and President of Balochistan
Institute For Future Development, who was
kidnapped along with his brother Obaidullah Ali in
2006. Both were subsequently released following the intervention
of Amnesty International (Samiullah ran the website
www.bifd.net). Senator Sanaullah Baloch, brother of the
kidnappees and a prominent politician of Balochistan who
now lives in exile in Europe, suffered an attempt
on his life in London in 2006. Sanaullah Baloch's website
is: http://www.sanabaloch.page.tl/Home.htm. |
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