Poor Baloch residents of the area considered themselves the owner of project and dreamed for a prosperous life ahead. The Pakistan Supreme Court has recieved Baghalchur residents' petition to force the Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) to clean up nuclear waste in the area, where uranium for the country's nuclear programme was mined between 1978 and 2000.

So, tribal people considered this project a God gifted opportunity to enhance their living standards but what happened next was totally unprecedented and awful.Soon after creation of a safe environment, underground and surface mining along with milling operations, began between 1977 and 1978.

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The villages have a populace of almost more than 80,000 and locals of both villages are deprived of the basic facilities.


Baghalchur is the site of abandoned uranium mines now being used as a dump.

The Baloch Liberation Army has carried out attacks in five major cities of Balochistan in last 24 hours.


The petitioners say that the residents of Baghalchur should be assured that the dumping is not going to do them harm.

Recently a study revealed that those who worked inside the mines of Baghalchur are likely to die sooner than the average population of the area.PAEC stockpiled tons of uranium from Baghalchur in the timespan of 1980-1998.

Baghalchuror Baghal Chor(Urdu: بغلچور‎) is a village in Dera Ghazi Khan District, Punjab, Pakistan.





Uranium Miners were exposed to mining dust, thought to cause lung disease.

Radon waves are emitting from nuclear waste which is the leading source of fatal diseases in area. But Mr Buzdar and his colleagues cite one of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission's (PAEC) own reports which said that the waste material being dumped at Baghalchur was "active". RELATED INTERNET LINKS: A Baloch student has been killed in front of his mother and younger sister in Aabsir, Turbat. So, life of people of Chaghi and adjacent districts became a hell since the nukes caused by Pakistan.People of Baghalchur had to pay ultimate price after 2002 when Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission started dumping “radioactive nuclear waste” here. With the use of violence and some aiding tactics state lured the illiterate tribesman to exploitation of their own resources. Baghalchur became the locus point of discussion on all national and international forums after Pakistan carried out nuclear test in 1998.

The court agreed and the next date of hearing is not yet known. Baghalchur's uranium mines are now being used as a dump. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites 28 Dec 05 |  They did not know that the uranium they are extracting with their hands will be a cause of havoc for their own people. Residents of a remote Punjab village in northern Pakistan say their lives are in danger from nuclear waste being dumped in their area.

"It is being done in keeping with the international standards for storing nuclear waste," he said. Baghalchur is situated about 120Km west from Dera Ghazi Khan City. In a patriarchal tribal society, the patriarchs have self-claimed authority to fill their own belly and live a luxurious life upon the resources of poor tribal people. By Nadeem Saeed Uranium Mines Guide. Co-petitioner Naseer Shah says there has been a dramatic increase in infant mortality since the dumping of toxic waste started. On May 28, 1998 Pakistan carried out atomic test in Raskoh Chaghi and converted the whole area into hell for indigenous Baloch people residing there. Till today thousands of inhabitants are suffering from cancer and many other fatal diseases, thousands of locally preserved livestock demised due to polluted water and most importantly the agricultural lands, which were the primary source of livelihood, become barren after the attacks.


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