Occupied Balochistan: A complete shutter down and wheel jam was observed in Khuzdar, Wadh, Naal and adjoining areas here on Wednesday to protest Engineering University incident last night claiming lives of two Baloch students. Protestors also blocked RCD highway by burning tyres. Three banks and three utility stores were destroyed and Post office was set on fire in New Bus Stand. City gave a deserted look during strike. Police and FC men patrolled the city. Hundreds of students took out a rally and marched on various roads of the city.

They chanted full throated slogans against the government and local administration and expressed their grave concern about the unprovoked incident. There was thin attendance in government offices. Three day morning was announced at the University.

Ninth class paper was cancelled and all the educational institutions were closed. First, second and third year examinations at the University were postponed till March 20. A shutter down and wheel jam was also observed in Panjgur and Gwadar today. All the business centres, markets, banks, hotels remained shut. Traffic was also suspended due to hurdles created by protesters.

Meanwhile, BSO (Azad) has given call for shutter down all over Balochistan including Khuzdar for Thursday. According BSO-Azaad media cell demonstrations and memorial meetings will be held on 8 March 2010 by BSO Azaad Uthal Zone., Hub Zone., Karachi Zone, Malir Zone., Gaddap Zone Joint rally in Karachi for Paying Tribute to the MARTRYS Of 2nd March Cultural Show.

BNP has also announced three day mourning against Khuzdar Engineering University incident. Party workers were directed to hoist black flags and wearing black bands around their arms.

Sardar Zehri condemns hand grenade attacks on Baloch students: Member Central Committee PML-N Chief of Jhalawan and provincial minister Sardar Sanaullah Zehri has strongly condemned hand grenade attack at Baloch Culture Day celebrations at Engineering University in Khuzdar. Speaking with Correspondents here Wednesday he said Wednesday that no civilized society allows such cruel act on unarmed and oppressed people should be injured. He said Baloch students and common Baloch people have the right to celebrate Baloch Culture Day. He said PML-N would raise voice against attack on students and Balochistan Culture Day celebration. He also expressed solidarity with relatives of students killed and injured in the attack.

Balochistan CM’s Statement: Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Muhammad Aslam Raisani has announced Rupees 0.5 million assistance for the student killed in Khuzdar University explosions and ordered inquiry into it. Chief Minister In a statement Wednesday regretted the incident and directed that injured should be shifted to Karachi immediately.

Commissioner Kalat Division and DIG Police were directed to hold an inquiry into the incident and submit its report to the provincial government. He said terrorists would not be allowed to succeed in their nefarious designs. A conspiracy was being made to deliberately deteriorate the situation in the province. He said accused involved in this incident would be arrested and taken to task.

BW comments: What else can a rubber stamp CM do apart from regretting, and as for as ordering an inquiry, how many orders have been implemented so far? Have the killers of Nawab Bugti, Balach Marri, G.M Baloch and comrades, Ali Dost Baloch and Saddam Baloch been arrested? We know you’re [Balochistan government] helplessness in front of notorious intelligence agencies of Pakistan. Please stop fooling Baloch people!

DIG Kalat! we predict these terrorists will not be apprehended because they have the support of the state of Pakistan, its military and Intelligence agencies. You cannot touch them because you want to save your job; you love your job more than the lives of innocent Baloch students.


The following statement is for Sanaullah Zehri who wants to make Balochistan a center for PML-N. We want to remind him that his party's student wing MSF has attacked Baloch students in Punjab five time now. Several Baloch students had been injured and the punjab police even did not have the decency to allow them to go the hospital for treatment.




Strike paralyses Balochistan

QUETTA - A complete shutterdown and wheel-jam strike was observed in different towns of Balochistan on Wednesday against the killing of two students in bomb blasts at Khuzdar Engineering University. In Khuzdar, the protest was marked by widespread violence, as infuriated protestors ransacked banks and utility stores besides torching a post office.

Two students of the varsity were killed and over 36 wounded in two bomb blasts in the campus while attending a cultural and musical show on Tuesday night.

The strike call was given by Baloch Students Organisation (BSO-Azad), which was also supported by other nationalist parties and students organisations. BSO-Azad has also announced three days and shutterdown strike today (Thursday) across against the Khuzdar incident.

According to reports reaching from Khuzdar, complete shutterdown and wheel-jam strike was observed as a protest against the incident. Unruly activists of BSO-Azad and other organisations blocked Quetta-Karachi Highway by burning tyres and erecting barricades. In this connection, a rally was also taken out rally during which the protesters chanted slogans against administration and perpetrators of the incident. They also ransacked three banks and three utility stores and also set a post office on fire.

All educational institutions in city remained closed while exams of Engineering University and Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education Quetta were also postponed in view of deteriorating law and order situation.

Local administration had taken strict security steps across the district, as police backed by Frontier Corps (FC) were deployed in different areas while mobile squads of law enforcement agencies continued patrolling in various sensitive areas to avert any untoward incident.

The strike was also observed in other towns of the province including Nal, Wadh, Nushki, Hub, Turbat, Mand, Panjgur and Kalat against the bomb blasts in Khuzdar as business community and other people responded positively to the call. Baloch Bar Association boycotted courts across the province to register its protest against the killing of innocent students.

Meanwhile, President Balochistan National Party and former chief minister Sardar Akhtar Mengal has strongly condemned the Khuzdar incident and termed it beginning of a new operation in Balochistan. He said the rulers were force in an attempt to sabotage the Baloch movement and had launched genocide of Baloch nation, adding that the incumbent government was powerless and the real power brokers would never accept Balochistan and Baloch people.

On the other hand, Chief Minister Balochistan Nawab Muhammad Aslam Raisani has announced Rs 0.5 for the heirs of victim students and directed authorities concerned for providing best treatment facilities to the injured. On his directives, some of them have already been shifted to Karachi for treatment.

He directed both commissioner and DIG Khuzdar for immediate probe into the incident and submitting a detailed report to the provincial government.

He said worsening law and order situation was a result of a well-planned conspiracy but he assured to bring the culprits to justice.

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