{"id":51562,"date":"2024-10-08T11:27:55","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T06:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=51562"},"modified":"2024-10-08T11:40:23","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T06:40:23","slug":"mahrang-baloch-barred-from-travelling-to-attend-time-magazines-gala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/mahrang-baloch-barred-from-travelling-to-attend-time-magazines-gala\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahrang Baloch barred from travelling to attend Time Magazine\u2019s Gala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: Mahrang Baloch, the leader of the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/balochistan-cm-cancels-nocs-for-underperforming-gwadar-housing-schemes\/\">Baloch Yakjehti Committee<\/a>, was recently barred from traveling to New York after discovering her name was on the no-fly list.<\/p>\n<p>The activist was invited to attend a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/psx-shares-hit-all-time-high-following-imf-bailout-approval\/\">Time Magazine gala<\/a> as one of the &#8220;Most Influential Emerging Leaders of the Year&#8221; and was named among Time Magazine&#8217;s &#8220;100 Most Influential People of 2024&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Mahrang is fairly active on social media where she highlights <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/historic-protest-outside-un-headquarters-slams-indian-human-rights-abuses-in-kashmir\/\">human rights<\/a> abuses in Balochistan, where many men have gone missing or been deceased.<\/p>\n<p>This recognition is a testament to her tireless efforts in leading hundreds of Baloch women in demanding justice for their missing loved ones in the federal capital.<\/p>\n<p>On her Twitter (X) account Maharang expressed her frustration, stating that the travel ban reflects the state&#8217;s growing insecurity regarding the Baloch people. She further described that the staff unjustly stopped her from flying at Karachi International Airport, with no legal validation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Today, I was scheduled to travel to New York to attend <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TIME?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TIME<\/a> Magazine&#8217;s gala, where I was invited alongside other leaders named as TIME\u2019s Most Influential Emerging Leaders of the Year. However, I was unjustly stopped at Karachi International Airport with no legal or valid given\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ea7dH4W6Fb\">pic.twitter.com\/Ea7dH4W6Fb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mahrang Baloch (@MahrangBaloch_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MahrangBaloch_\/status\/1843318439777321321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 7, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Moreover, She believes the ban aims to silence advocates for Baloch rights and control the narrative around the ongoing human rights abuses in the region.<\/p>\n<p>As the leader of the Baloch Yakjehti Committee, Mahrang has been instrumental in organizing movements and sit-ins to raise awareness about enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings in Balochistan.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Mahrang described her feelings about being named in the &#8221;100 Most Influential People in the World 2024&#8221;, She expressed her gratitude and dedicated this achievement to the victims of abuse in Balochistan.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I am deeply honored and delighted to be named among the top 100 emerging leaders of the world by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TIME?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TIME<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I dedicate this recognition to all Baloch women human rights defenders and families of victims of forcefully disappeared people.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uq1ipDBMWL\">https:\/\/t.co\/uq1ipDBMWL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mahrang Baloch (@MahrangBaloch_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MahrangBaloch_\/status\/1841487156378013952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: Mahrang Baloch, the leader of the Baloch Yakjehti Committee, was recently barred from traveling to New York after discovering her name was on the no-fly list. The activist was invited to attend a Time Magazine gala as one of the &#8220;Most Influential Emerging Leaders of the Year&#8221; and was named among Time Magazine&#8217;s &#8220;100 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":51563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22765,22763,22766,22764],"class_list":["post-51562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-100-most-influential-people-of-2024","tag-baloch-yakjehti-committee","tag-most-influential-emerging-leaders-of-the-year","tag-time-magazine-gala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51562"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51568,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51562\/revisions\/51568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}