Prominent Indian-origin Pakistani politician and human rights activist BM Kutty died on Sunday in Karachi after a protracted illness. He was 89. He was ill for a while. He spent his life fighting for civil and human rights, Marvi Sarmad, a human rights activist and journalist, said. His wife Birjis Siddiqui died in 2010. The couple has four children.
Balochistan: In the Crosshairs of History
Mon, Feb 22 2021 01:08:34 PM
By Aditi Bhaduri
Feb 22 (IANS): The year began on a subdued note with the assassination of journalist and activist Karima Baloch, one of Balochistan s few, fiery and brilliant women freedom fighters. Her dead body was found in a lake in Toronto, Canada. The death is strongly alleged to be that of the Pakistani deep state. It, however, did not ignite international passions as the farmers protests in democratic India did, for example. Yet, this was not a one-off assassination. It was part of a broader pattern of continuous death, destruction and dispossession of an entire community by the very state that is meant to protect and ensure their rights. Just in September another Baloch female journalist was killed, her perpetrators went scot-free.