Who Killed Sajid Hussain?
By Malik Siraj Akbar The Baluch generally keep their expectations low when it comes to human rights. When somebody goes missing, the benchmark is kept so low that the mere recovery of the missing person is considered a big deal. Whether the person is recovered dead or alive is temporarily insignificant. Most Baluchs who await their loved ones even don’t get to see them again, either dead or alive. It might be very provocative to say that we are “lucky” that the missing Baluch journalist Sajid Hussain’s body has finally been found. Trag…
Journalists and journalism are to be held accountable if Sajid is not granted justice – Jamal Baloch
W hen Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist, was killed, he was on every news channel, every newspaper and became the most important subject of discussion. His murder raised questions about human rights, about freedom of speech, about protection of journalists and overall about humanity. Almost every prominent news channel, HR organisation and journalist spoke up and demanded justice for him. While Khashoggi’s killing was internationalized, today, a Baloch journalist and a Baloch refugee, Sajid Hussain, who was missing for two months, wa…
Sajid Hussain Obituary
Author: Miran Mazar (Chief Editor The Balochistan Post) Sajid Hussain was well known in the Baloch society since he began his journalistic career, particularly to anyone who followed the politics of Balochistan. He was 39, when his dead body was found from a river by Police in Uppsala, Sweden in April 2020. He went missing from the Swedish town on 2nd March 2020, where he had moved to a student accommodation because of his studies. Sajid Hussain was born in Mand on 16 January 1981 and grew up in the nearby locality of Nizarabad. Ho…
Protest in Gwadar
They said the UoB students have been disgraced through secretly recorded videos By our correspondent QUETTA: Leaders of different political parties, trade associations, and civil society staged a protest demonstration outside the Gwadar Press Club against alleged sexual harassment and blackmailing of students at the University of Balochistan (UoB). The participants were carrying placards and banners inscribed with different slogans. Addressing the protesters, National Party’s district president Faiz Nigori, BNP’s Abdul Rehm…
Balochistan’s Students Take to the Streets
Protests at one of Pakistan’s largest universities continue to widen after surveillance, harassment and blackmail scandal broke open. By Mariyam Suleman “We boycotted classes this Monday. There are protests in [the] university and fear all around especially for us [female students],” says Alia Baloch, a final year student at the University of Balochistan. Balochistan, the largest province of Pakistan by area, is also one of the most conservative and least developed regions in South Asia — women are its most vulnerable population. A…
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