Balochistan: Baloch community in Sweden and Norway have collected funds for those who have been displaced by Pakistan’s Punjabi army. About 600 blankets, notebooks and pens have been distributed to the war affected people in Balochistan.

Thousands of people killed in the last five years in Balochistan, more then 300,000 (Three hundred thousand) Baloch people displaced and living a life of below human standards.

Tens of thousands of women, children and elderly have died due to disease and malnutrition, a generation is being deprived of it basic rights of education, health and the right choose where/how to live.

Speaking on the occasion the Baloch minor students and the rest of people thanked the Baloch community in Sweden and Norway for their help. In a message they said, “We don’t expect any good from the government of Pakistan who has not only displaced us from our homes but also burn down our crops, destroyed our houses by aerial bombardment, Pakistani occupying forces have killed and kidnapped our people. Still thousands of Baloch people are missing and hundreds are being tortured in secret dungeons of Pakistan army. Savage Pakistani forces have exceeded the limits of humanity by arresting women and children.

They said their only hope is the Baloch Nation who can help them in this difficult time. They hoped all other Baloch living abroad and in Balochistan would do whatever they can to help their suffering brothers and sisters.

Balochwarna thanks the Baloch community in Norway and Sweden to helping the Baloch displaced people. We urge all other Baloch people living around the world to help the victems of war in Balochistan. Your help can bring happiness to thier disappointed faces.

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Mustikhan Meets US Asst. Secretary of State, Seeks Help for Baloch Refugees
Tue, 3 Apr 2007

WASHINGTON DC: Senior journalist and founder-member of the American Friends of Balochistan Ahmar Mustikhan met U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migration, Ellen R. Sauerbrey, Monday evening and urged her to help Baloch refugees fleeing Iran and Pakistan.

Mustikhan informed Sauerbrey the Baloch were a secular people living on the strategic northern skirt of the straits of Hormuz, but Teheran and Islamabad were trying to thrust their fundamentalist brand of Islam on them in their state interests. Mustikhan said the Baloch, just like the Kurds, were victims of the wrong demarcation of international borders by the British. The U.S. assistant secretary said she knew about Balochistan.

She assured Mustikhan her office area of work includes helping stateless people. The U.S. has a billion dollar budget to help global refugees and last year 41,500 people from 67 countries got refuge in the United States.

In a letter that Mustikhan personally handed to Sauerbrey, he said: "Let me convey you the greetings of spring, the season of sunshine and blossoming flowers. Unfortunately, the dark deadly and wintry night that has spanned nearly six decades for my Baloch people, numbering more than 15 million, is yet to be over."

His letter further said, "While public hanging of Baloch political dissidents in Iran is common knowledge, thousands have been killed, maimed or simply made to disappear in the face of an army operation in Pakistan."

Mustikhan asked Sauerbrey, "In view of the appalling human rights situation in both Iranian and Pakistani occupied Balochistan, I urge you take steps to make it easier for the Baloch refugees to find safety and live their lives in the freedoms of the United States."