حزب مردم بلوچستان  Balochistan People’s Party  بلوچستانءِ اُستمانءِ گــَل

Oppn calls for political dialogue in Balochistan

Press Trust of India
Islamabad, August 5, 2006

Opposition parties in Pakistan's Senate have slammed the government for its handling of the nationalist revolt in Balochistan province and demanded an immediate halt to the military operation to give way for political dialogue.

During a debate on the situation in Balochistan, where rights groups allege hundreds of people have gone missing in the military crackdown against Baloch rebels, Senator Rahmatullah Kakar of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) demanded provincial autonomy to end the crisis.

He also demanded that all those who had allegedly been abducted by personnel of various agencies be produced in court and the kidnappers punished in accordance with law.

As a spate of petitions on missing persons came up before courts, Pakistan's army and defence department told the judiciary they have no administrative control over intelligence agencies nor could they make them produce the detained persons.

Another MMA senator, Dr Saed asked the government to announce a general amnesty for Baloch people by ending punitive actions against them, the Dawn newspaper reported.

He also demanded implementation of the recommendations of a government-appointed Parliamentary committee, which worked out a political understanding with rebel leaders.

Abdul Malik of the Balochistan National Party (Hayee group) described the military operation as part of an "international game in which rulers were playing as tools in the hands of planners".

He alleged that 200,000 acres land along the border with Iran had been handed over to Pakistan Air Force and there were speculations that it wouald be sold to the US.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/

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Dear Friends,

I have tried here to translate Mubarak Qazi's poem, "Cry of the camel". It is a rough translation and may not be free from shortcomings. Mubarak Qazi is a great poet but is a govt servant and it can be seen from this poem how his pen is guTgeer. He is probably referring to himself in the camel.

Bk

Cry of the Camel

(Dedicated to the women martyrs of Dera Bugti in Balochistan and to their killed camels)
By Mubarak Qazi

O God,
O God of justice,
O Master of living things, of music and of sufferings,
Please forgive this grass-eating animal (the camel),
O God,
O God,
I have supplications and requests with you,
I request and ask permission to make a plea to you
O God,
It has been for some time that strange soldiers have arrived in our villages,
They have killed mothers and suckling babies, old and young,
They have killed them and thrown them away carelessly,
And a number of other valiant tigers,
Are taken to unknown lands,
(Who knows whether they are dead or alive)
They have burnt down all of our villages and houses,
Kud’d’ik, kargi’n, pishband and matted tents (first three are different types of thatched houses),
Houses and mud-brick rooms,
The looters have taken away all our belongings and properties with them,
Only I have survived with five or six baby-camels and she-camels,
Place to place, destination after destination, I wonder,
I can’t find anywhere a kind person,
The whole town has been shattered,
O God,
O just God,
O kind God,
I am startled and surprised what to do,
Now that these strange foreign troops are out in searching for me in settlements and villages,
Down on the earth is the noise of Kalashnikovs,
Up in the sky are shining war planes,
O God,
O God,
O Knowledgeable of every existing thing,
Please allow me to ask you one or two questions,
O God,
which camp and armed men I have provided training to?
Which markets or buses have I put on fire to?
At which General’s garden have I thrown a bomb?
Which factory owner’s son have I kidnapped?)
Which railway line have I destroyed?
Which bank have I robbed?
O God,
What is our duty?
To serve our master throughout the life,
Whatever is his command, we obey the same,
These humans of Yours, save me from them,
O God, I am thankful that I am not a human being.

(Published in monthly Balochi)
June 2006 issue

Translated by Badalkhan

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List of websites blocked by authorities gets longer

12-08-2008

Reporters Without Borders today condemned the decision of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) on 26 July to add 34 new web addresses to the list of sites to which it blocks access. For the most part they were Baluch nationalist sites, online radio stations and sites relating to the Sindhi minority.

“We deplore these latest filtering measures and we insist, yet again, that it is not the PTA’s job to decide whether websites should be blocked,” the press freedom organisation said. “We believe that such decisions should be taken by a judge, after equitable legal proceedings, and definitely not by an entity under government control.”

Don’t Block the Blog, a collective of Pakistani bloggers that combats censorship, told Reporters Without Borders there was little point to these blocking measures as information always found a way of getting out on the Internet. They just hurt the government’s image while giving the targeted website’s content a credibility it did not always deserve, the group said.

The collective stressed that it favoured online free expression. “Pakistani voices, be they supportive of the government or dissenting rants, should all be given a chance to be heard,” one of its founders said.

Most of the newly-blocked sites are linked to the Baluch nationalist movement, which wants independence for the southwestern province of Baluchistan. There has been sporadic fighting between the movement’s armed supporters and government forces in the province for years. Online radio stations that report on the army’s operations in Baluchistan have also been blocked.

Two Sindhi sites were also added to the blacklist, including one operated by the Washington-based World Sindhi Institute, which defends human rights in the southeastern province of Sindh. And several of the web addresses on the list do not in fact correspond to any existing website.

The PTA previously ordered the blocking of five websites on 25 April on the grounds that they were posting “misleading information”. Four were Baluch nationalist sites and the fifth was a Hindu extremist site. As is the case now, the decision was not endorsed by a judge.

Before that, the PTA blocked 12 websites on 28 February for posting the controversial Mohammed cartoons that were first published in the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten. They included the blog platform Blogger (Blogspot.com), which hosted one of the websites that posted the cartoons. Access to the entire platform was blocked within Pakistan, with the result that millions of blogs disappeared from the Pakistani Internet.

Don’t Block the Blog reported today that Blogger is again accessible. But the collective stressed that this is not necessarily definitive, as the blocking of the site was already lifted twice, on 2 and 29 May, only to be reinstated a few days later.

The list of 34 newly-blocked websites:

http://www.ostomaan.org
http://www.bso_na.com
http://www.balochclub.com
http://balochestan.com
http://www.rahimjaandehvari.blogfa.com
http://balochwarna.org.modules/news/
http://www.zrombesh.org
http://www.balochunitedfront.org
http://www.balochistaninfo.com
http://www.balochtawar.net/brw/
http://oldmanclub.persianblog.com/
http://www.al-baloushi.com/
http://www.balochistan.cjb.not/
http://www.sarbaaz.com
http://www.sagaar.tk
http://ngaran.blogfa.com
http://www.hazzaam.com/hazzaam.com/
http://www.balochmedia.net
http://www.radiobalochi.org.archives/meny_shajarehname_aks.htm
http://www.balushunion.com
http://www.payambaloch.persianblog.com
http://www.brohi.tk
http://www.balochistaninfo.com/balochanitawar/
http://www.eurobaluchi.com
http://www.balochunity.org
http://www.balouch.blogspot.com
http://balouch.blogspot.com
http://dochebaloch.persianblog.com
http://www.asaappublicetions.com
http://www.sindhtoday.net
http://www.worldsindhi.org
http://www.live365.com
http://www.golbang.nu

Source: http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=18539

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Tehran alerted on possible entry of BLA members

12-08-2008
By Our Staff Reporter

ISLAMABAD, Aug 8: Islamabad has alerted Tehran that runaway leaders and members of Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), which has been declared a proscribed organisation in Pakistan, may try to sneak into Iran.

“Even though there is no proof of any BLA men having taken refuge in Iran, we have given them intimation in this regard so that they remain alert,” Secretary Interior Syed Kamal Shah told newsmen here on Tuesday.

Mr Shah had returned to the country two days ago after attending a Joint Working Group (JWG) meeting of Pakistan and Iran.

He said that Pakistan and Iran were worried about illegal cross-border movement between the two countries.

He disclosed that Pakistan had provided a list of 10 most-wanted terrorists likely to be hiding in Iran.

To a question, he said Iran had also sought arrest of one Abdul Rehman Regi, wanted in cases of killing and kidnapping of Iranians. He said they were showed a video-tape of Regi and his associates slaughtering an abducted Iranian near Pakistan-Iran border area in Balochistan.

To another question, the secretary interior said at least 94 Pakistanis were languishing in Iranian jails. Similarly, Iranians were also imprisoned in Pakistani jails, he added.

During the JWP meeting, it was decided to grant consular access to the prisoners on reciprocal basis, he said.

Mr Shah said the two-day JWG meeting between interior ministries of the two countries, held after a gap of three years, discussed wide ranging issues including border controls, terrorism, exchange of prisoners, human trafficking and drug smuggling.

He said the two sides underscored the need to further strengthen bilateral ties to combat terrorism, human smuggling and drug trafficking.

Recognizing that terrorism poses a big threat to both the countries, the meeting resolved to closely cooperate with each other in combating the menace through exchange of information and intelligence, he said.

The meeting appointed focal persons in Pakistan’s FIA and Iran’s Directorate General of Law Enforcement for exchange of information on human trafficking, he said, adding that it was also decided that the FIA director general and the concerned Iranian official would meet every six months for better coordination to combat human trafficking.

On drug-trafficking, the secretary interior said the two sides expressed satisfaction over the existing cooperation and agreed to boost it further.

The meeting appointed focal persons to ensure implementation of the decisions and agreement reached during the special security committee meetings, he said. Iran’s director general for Border Affairs and Smuggling and Pakistan’s additional secretary Ministry of Interior had been nominated in this regard, he added.

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BNP issues list of ‘detained activists’

12-08-2006

QUETTA: The Balochistan National Party-Mengal has issued a list of more than 100 political activists allegedly detained illegally by intelligence agencies, said BNP President Sardar Akhtar Mengal in a statement on Thursday.

Mengal said that the actual number of missing political activists was higher than the number mentioned in the list. “The government is victimising our activists politically,” he said, alleging that hundreds of political workers of the BNP and other nationalist parties had been detained illegally along with their families, and nobody knew of their whereabouts.

He accused Federal Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Sherpao and Balochistan Governor Owais Ahmed Ghani of lying about the whereabouts of the workers. “They said initially that there were no Baloch workers in government agencies’ custody, but they admitted later that a few Baloch were detained.

The government, however, is refusing to give an exact figure for the number of detained Baloch workers,” he added. Mengal, a former Balochistan chief minister, said Samiullah Baloch, the brother of his party’s information secretary Sana Baloch, had been picked up by intelligence agencies because of Samiullah’s political activity.

The BNP chief demanded the judiciary intercede for the release of the ‘hundreds of political workers’.

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14 August violent day at Turbat Balochistan

Tue, 15 Aug 2006

Yesterday on 14 August was observed a Black day in all over Balochistan . In Turbat BSO + BNM ladies wing + relatives of Baloch detainees arranged a really against killing and kidnapping of innocent Baloch from all over Baloch. When protestors assembled on Fida Shaheed chock ,the ATF force mostly are non local turned violent rushed toward protestors and started firing bullet and shells ,they tortured Baloch women and students .

The forces aimed to disturb and harass the protestors they also used force against women and children ,the peace protest soon turned into war zone. The police aimed using of force on them ll frighten them,but Baloch ladies and BSO youth showed a great boldness .They did not frighten from ATF harsh response .Their high confidence and moral failed the government agenda to disrupt the really .The really ended successfully . When the really ended BNM ladies wing called a Press conference in local hotel .When Press conference ended The law enforcement agencies rushed to Hotel they surrounded the hotel from all side .They wanted to Arrest Waja Ghulam Mohd and BSO leadership but Baloch womens and
youths pulled back them and circled Ghulam Mohd Baloch They added you have to kill us before arresting Ghulam Mohd Baloch and BSO leadership. More than 150 Baloch women and children were arrested in local hotel from many hours.
After a dialogue between law enforcement agencies and BNM +BSO took placed ,law enforcement agencies bend down their knees and released them.

We have also news that police logged anti state FIR against BSO and BNM leadership.

Source: Balochi_Culture

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Balochistan Liberation Front attacked CHOKKAAP

Tue, 15 Aug 2006

The resisting forces of Balochistan Liberation Front have launched a surprise attack upon the Frontier Corps camp at Chokkaap (Mand) on the occasion of Pakistan day (14 august); and completely destroyed Pakistani military camp and inflicted heavy losses in men and materials to enemy forces. As per telephonic message from BLF's mountainous Head Quarter; the same attack lasted for more than two hours. The attack was so tough and surprise that Pakistani military men could not have the chance to collect their senses and defend themselves or retaliate. For more than two hours, the BLF forces had free hand to use against their enemy and completely destroyed the Paki army camp at Mand.

Balochistan Liberation Front's young warriors used all sorts of medium and heavy arms, including RPG 7 and automatic guns and completely wiped out the Paki army camp. In this attack more than 10 soldiers were killed and 8 wounded. The entire camp was leveled to ground; and as well as the dump of arms & ammunitions were set on fire and destroyed.
After two hours of attack, all Baloch Sarmachars (Baloch warriors) returned back to their bases safely.

BLF Commander has announced that it may be regarded as a gift on Pakistan day, on their behalf to the people of Balochistan; and the demonstration of solidarity with Marri, Mengal and Bugti Baloch in their brave struggle against Pakistani military lords, for the achievement of the usurped rights of people of Balochistan.

Source: Balochi_Culture

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UN intervention sought in Balochistan

By Amanullah Kasi

16-08-2006

QUETTA, Aug 15: The leader of opposition in provincial assembly, Mr Kachkol Ali Baloch, has urged the secretary general of the UN to take up in the Security Council the issue of what he called excesses committed by security forces against civilian population in Dera Bugti and Kohlu.

At a press conference at the MPA hostel on Tuesday, he alleged that since July 2, jet planes and helicopters had been bombing Dera Bugti and Kohlu areas and killing innocent people.

He accused troops of dropping bombs on civilians and police of arresting hundreds of youths from Quetta, Khuzdar and Turbat over the past three days.

Mr Kachkol, who was accompanied by Balochistan National Party’s deputy parliamentary leader Akhtar Hussain Lango, claimed that 140 people had been dumped in two small rooms of Sariab police station.

He said the United Nation and the European Union should take notice of the situation. He said sons of the soil were being treated like animals, but human rights organisations were doing nothing to protect their constitutional rights.

http://www.dawn.com/2006/08/16/nat10.htm

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Eight die in Balochistan explosions, clashes

16-08-2006
By Saleem Shahid

Quetta, Aug 15: At least eight people, three of them security personnel, were killed and 19 others injured in nine explosions and armed clashes in different areas of Balochistan on Tuesday.

“Four people died in two explosions that occurred in Hub and Rakhni areas,” officials said.

The banned Baloch Liberation Army accepted the responsibility of bomb explosions in Hub, Rakhni and Quetta on the Independence Day.

According to officials, a powerful bomb exploded at the Serat Chowk of Hub, killing three people and injuring four others. They said that a man, selling national flags was blown up. Two other injured persons died in the hospital.

The second bomb exploded in a small hotel in the Rakhni Bazar in Barkhan district, killing a tribesman, Noor Khan Khetran. Three other people were injured.

Four people were injured in a bomb explosion in Nushki.

Six more bombs exploded in Quetta, Kalat and Mach areas. In Quetta, four blasts rocked the city.

Two bombs exploded in Kalat and Mach towns.

Meanwhile, three persons, including two security personnel, were killed in a landmine blast. Officials said that a vehicle of the security forces hit a landmine in the Suro area of Kahan tehsil in Kohlu district.

The landmine victims were identified as Mohammad Arshad and Mohammad Saleem.

Another man, Mustafa, was killed in a landmine explosion in the Sangsella area of Dera Bugti district, official sources said.

A tribesman, Qaim Khan, was killed when a tribal convoy came under heavy firing near the Loti area. Sources said that seven people were injured in the firing. Officials said that over two dozen rockets were fired in the Sui area. Tribesmen also blew up two power transmission towers

http://www.dawn.com/2006/08/16/top13.htm

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UNPO: “Iran Must End Repression against Minorities”

2006-08-14

UNPO is deeply disturbed upon Syria's deportation of all Ahwazis, including UNHCR registered refugees and the Dutch national Mr. Al-Mansouri, in its custody to Iran. UNPO General Secretary Mr. Busdachin calls for urgent action and a comprehensive approach on human rights and effective democratisation.

UNPO is greatly concerned at the news that the Syrian government has deported all Ahwazis, including UNHCR registered refugees, as well as the Dutch national Mr. Al-Mansouri, in its custody to Iran. Furthermore, Mr. Said Awdeh Saki, a UNHCR registered refugee who was due to be relocated to Norway, was deported previously to Iran and his location is currently unknown.

The Ahwazi have been a UNPO Member since 2003 and UNPO continues to monitor related developments in Iran, in particular the worsening situation Ahwazis face in terms of arrest, torture and execution. UNPO General Secretary, Mr. Marino Busdachin states: “Recent events continue to demonstrate the total lack of respect for international human rights standards and the vulnerability of specifically national minority groups and indigenous peoples in Iran, such as the Ahwazi, Balochis, Kurds and other. These groups continue to suffer systematic discrimination, and the international human rights community has so far failed to address this issue sufficiently.”

Mr. Busdachin adds that a comprehensive approach to human rights and effective democratisation in the region is required and calls upon international actors and institutions to support initiatives involving minority groups within Iran promoting non-violent methodologies for democracy and human rights. “These groups can constitute the critical elements for a viable, legitimate and effective strategy for a just and democratic Iran, respectful of the international human rights treaties it has pledged to adhere to,” the UNPO General Secretary asserts.

Source UNPO

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KARACHI: Baloch Marxist leader dies

KARACHI, Aug 16: Yar Mohammad Yar, a senior progressive political worker of Lyari and popularly known as ‘Comrade Yar’, died on Tuesday night after a protracted illness. He was 69.

He leaves behind a widow, two sons and three daughters to mourn his death.

He was buried in Mewashah Graveyard on Wednesday. Community leaders, Baloch intellectuals and journalists in a large number attended his funeral.

Comrade Yar was a Marxist and had been a senior member of the defunct National Awami Party. He had played an active role in Balochistan National Movement in 1960s. He was among the NAP leaders arrested in 1965 on sedition charge.

He had quit active politics after the NAP was disbanded and devoted himself in literary work. He contributed many articles on Balochistan for newspapers.

http://www.dawn.com/2006/08/17/local28.htm

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KARACHI: Baloch people continue protest on 98th day

KARACHI, Aug 16: The protest Baloch people against illegal confinement of their family members allegedly by government agencies entered 98th day as they continued their sit-in at their camp outside the Karachi Press Club on Wednesday.

The Baloch Prisoners Release Committee (BPRC) also continued its series of protest rallies for the release of Baloch activists. Carrying banners and waving portraits of the ‘missing’ people, Baloch nationalists on Wednesday staged a demonstration outside the KPC for the release of all those allegedly whisked away by the agencies and have been kept at an undisclosed place for long. They also condemned an incident on August 14 in Turbat where, according to them, security forces resorted to baton-charge to disperse a women rally.

According to them, the rally had been organised by the family members of the missing people for their release from illegal confinement.

The BPRC rally described the action against innocent women and children as ‘an act of naked terrorism resorted to by the state’. They declared that such actions could in no way demoralise the Baloch people as they were determined to achieve their national objectives. They condemned the ongoing military ‘operation’ in Balochistan and vowed to resist all sorts of violence.

http://www.dawn.com/2006/08/17/local26.htm
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Iranian Army to launch war games

8/17/06

TEHRAN, Aug. 16 (Mehr News Agency) – Iran's army will start a series of military war games on Saturday to support the government's policies, the Army Deputy Commander Brigadier General Mohammad-Reza Ashtiani said on Wednesday.

"The military exercises will be launched in many provinces especially West Azarbaijan, East Azarbaijan, Kordestan, Sistan-Baluchestan, and Khorasan," Ashtiani told a press conference.

The maneuvers will involve the army's ground and air forces, the general added.

"The army is always prepared to back the government's policies… and is ready to thwart all the plots against the Islamic Republic of Iran," he stated.

"We should show Iran's military capability to the enemies," he said. "No army in the world can confront Iran's Army, the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, and Basij (voluntary) forces," he noted.

The new weapons and munitions, which have been manufactured by the defense industries organization with the cooperation of the army, such as armor-piercing bullets, will be used in the exercises, he stated.

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Political Parties or Groups of Balochistan

19-08-2006

By Walid Garboni

Political Parties, movements and groups of Balochistan- Iran

BUF
Full Name: Balochistan United Front
Established: 2003
Led by: Dr. Abdul Sattar Doshoki. He has multiple degrees in Medicine, economics and information technology from Iran and England.
Main objectives: Rights for Baloch in a free and democratic Iran
Official web: http://www.balochfront.org/

BUF- Democrats
Full name: Balochistan United Front - Federal Democrats!
Established: 2005
Led by: Unknown
Main objectives: Working for a federal democratic Iran in which Baloch to be master of their destiny!
Official web: http://www.balochunitefront.org/

Jondollah
Full name: Jondollah ( Gods Struggle)
Established: 2005
Led by: Abdulmalek Regi education is basic
Main objectives: Equal rights for Sunnis in Iran Particularily Baloch Sunnis. . The group has carried out some serious attacks on government forces in Iran in recent months.
Official web: Unknown.

Mobarezin
Full Name: Hezbe Mobarezin Balochistan (Balochistan Wariors Party)
Established: 2004
Led by: Mirlashari; education is unknown. He also led an arm struggle against Iran during 80s
Main objectives: Rights for Baloch, no details are available.
Official web: Unknown.

Ostomaan
Full Name: Balochistan e Ostomaani Gal (Balochistan People’s Party)
Established: 2003
Led by: Mr. Nasser Buledai a Baloch graduated in Sweden;
Main objectives: The Party is working for a federal Iran where all the nation based States have equal rights.
Official web: http://www.balochpoeple.org/

Zrombesh
Full Name: Balochistan e Raaji Zrombesh (Balochistan National Movement);
Established: Early 1980s
Led by: Unknown; the group has a pattern of not disclosing their leadership.
Main objectives: The group is seeking the right of self determination for Baloch in Iran.
Official web: http://www.zrobesh.org/


Political Parties, movements and groups of Balochistan - Pakistan

BLA
Full name: Balochistan Liberation Army
Established: Unknown
Led by: Unknown
Main objectives: Unknown, but the group is currently engaged in an armed struggle against current Pakistani establishment
Official web: Unknown

BLF
Full Name: Balochistan Liberation Front
Established: unknown
Led by: Unknown
Main objectives: Unknown, but the group is currently engaged in an armed struggle against current Pakistani establishment
Official web: unknown

BNM
Full name: Balochistan National Movement
Established: 1980s
Led by: Gulam Mohammad Baloch a Pakistani graduated
Main objectives: Freedom of Balochistan, from Pakistani establishment, no further details available.
Official web: Unknown

BNP- Awami
Full name: Balochistan National Party Awami group, the party is part of current Pakistani establishment.
Established: 1990s
Led by: Senator Mohim Khan Baloch; a Pakistan graduate
Main objectives: Rights and development of Balochistan
Official web: Unknown.

BNP- Mengal
Full Name: Balochistan National Party Mengal group
Established: 1990s
Led by: Attaullah Mengal; Engalnd graduate (chairman), his son Akhtar Jan Mengal Pakistani graduate (president)
Main objectives: Equal rights for Balochistan within Pakistan
Official web: Unknown

BWM
Full Name: Baloch Watan Movement
Established: 11 August 2006
Led by: Qadir Baloch, education unknown
Main objectives: Freedom of Balochistan; no further details available.
Official web: Unknown

Haqtawar
Full name: Haqtawar
Established: 1990s
Led by: Nawab Khair Baksh Marri an England graduated. One of his sons is thought to be engaged in an arm struggle against Pakistani establishment.
Main objectives: Rights for Balochistan, no details available.
Official web: http://www.balochvoice.com/

JWP
Full Name: Jamhori Watan Party
Established: 1990s
Led by: Nawab Akbar Bugti an England graduate. He is currently leading an arm resistance against the Pakistan establishment
Main objects: Equal rights for Balochistan within Pakistan, no further details available
Official web: Unknown.

NP
Full name: National Party
Established: 2003
Led by: Abdul Hayi Baloch (president) and Mr. Hasel Bezanjo (secretary general) Both graduated in Pakistan.
Main objectives: Right of self-determination with equal rights for all nation based states of Pakistan in accordance to 1940 resolution.
Official web: Unknown.

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Occupation of Balochistan by Pakistan and Iran

24-08-2006

Picture from dailytawar website of a girl holding bannar against the occupation of Balochistan by Pakistan and Iran.

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Congressman urges US to support Kurds of Iran

Thursday, August 24, 2006
KurdishMedia.com - By Sirvan Kaveh
Congressman Rohrabacher says U.S. should support Kurds, Persians and other opposition groups in Iran

Dana Rohrabacher, U.S. Congressman for the State of California, said on Wednesday that the United States should stand behind the opposition groups in Iran in order to overthrow the regime in power. Rohrabacher, who recently made an appearance on the Fox News program, "Your World with Neil Cavuto", explained the importance of American Support for the opposition groups in Iran to find an alternative solution to the nuclear crisis outside of U.S. military intervention or sanctions.

Rohrabacher said, "We should support the people in Iran to fight for themselves," explaining that such a move would eliminate the negative effects of a U.S. military intervention, which like in Iraq, could result in more hatred for the United States and a much higher insurgency in Iran than has been experienced in Iraq. Rohrabacher explained that Iran is multi-ethnic and said that the United States should back some 50% of Persians in Iran who support a regime change. He also said, Kurds, who constitute an even larger number in Iran than in Iraq, should be supported as well as the Azeris, Arabs and Baluchis who all oppose the Ayatollah Regime.

Rohrabacher said, "Most Persians in Iran want a regime change. We should support them. And there are more Kurds in Iran than there are in Iraq, along with the Azeris, Arabs, and Baluchis who all want change."

When the host of the program, Neil Cavuto, asked whether such a plan had been considered, Rohrabacher replied that there had been no discussions for such a plan previously and that there should be one in place immediately in order to "help our friends", referring to the opposition groups and ethnicities living in Iran.

Source: Fox News, "Your World with Neil Cavuto"

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Fierce Fighting Between PJAK and the Iranian Army In Urmia

22 august, 2006,
HRK, Urmia
According to local sources the Iranian army is continuing its attack against the Defense forces of Eastern Kurdistan HRK-PJAK in the areas of Urmia and villages of East Kurdistan in Iran.

The area of Urmia had seen fierce fighting between the Kurdish resistance HRK and the Iranian army. In these fierce military clashes, 6 Iranian solders were killed and 8 others wounded.

It is confirmed that for the first time Kurds members of the Iranian army were runaway and refused to fight against the Kurdish fighters from PJAK.

Source A.N.F.
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