By Athithan Jayapalan: On 14th August when Pakistan celebrated its Independence Day, pro-Baloch independence parties and organizations boycotted the occasion, marking it as Black Day. Subsequently black flags were hoisted on houses and people donned black armbands. Braving the Pakistani military occupation the Baloch people reiterated their national aspirations and commitments. The Baloch nation in the diaspora and in the occupied homeland while protesting the Pakistani Independence Day, also vividly commemorated their own day of independence on 11 August with a renewed pledge to continue the struggle for national liberation and independence. Read article on Baloch Warna