if simply talking about what’s happening in balochistan can get u killed in pakistan’s largest metropolis, can we even imagine what it’s like to be an ordinary baloch living in balochistan, under military occupation? incredibly frightening.
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Before her death, Ms. Mahmud told friends and journalists that she occasionally had come under scrutiny from Pakistani intelligence agents. \u201cI\u2019ve made copies and told my staff to give them everything,\u201d she had told a reporter earlier Friday. \u201cI understand that they\u2019re doing their job. I have nothing to hide.\u201d The death of such a popular and prominent figure led to an immediate outpouring of grief and anger in Karachi. Mohammed Hanif, a prominent author and journalist in Pakistan who has written extensively on Baluchistan, said he strongly suspected that the military had a hand in Ms. Mahmud\u2019s death. \u201cThere\u2019s no other way to interpret this,\u201d he said. \u201cThe Baluchistan problem is so huge, and Pakistani intelligence agencies are so paranoid, that they will not allow even discussion in a room full of people, let alone a TV channel or a newspaper.\u201d Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur, an activist who took part in the panel discussion, said, \u201cIt isn\u2019t a random job, it\u2019s a professional job.\u201d More here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" if simply talking about what’s happening in balochistan can get u killed in pakistan’s largest metropolis, can we even imagine what it’s like to be an ordinary baloch living in balochistan, under military occupation? incredibly frightening. … Before her death, Ms. Mahmud told friends and journalists that she occasionally had come under scrutiny from Pakistani … Continue reading Gunmen Kill Arts Advocate in Pakistan After Human Rights Event<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8126,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8122\/revisions\/8126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}