QUETTA: The United Nations delegation for investigating “enforced disappearances” in Balochistan arrived in Quetta on Saturday, Express News reported.
The four-member UN Working Group will meet with civil society representatives as well as the relatives of the missing people to collect information about the missing.
Earlier, a two-member UN delegation arrived in Pakistan on a 10-day mission to investigate cases of “enforced disappearances” plaguing the country at the invitation of the government.
International and Pakistani human rights groups estimate thousands of people have been kidnapped and detained in secret prisons in the past decade, allegedly by security forces.
The Supreme Court is already investigating cases of missing people in the southwestern province of Balochistan, where the military has been accused of rights violations in its bid to put down a separatist insurgency.
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After 65 years of tyranny and 5 military operations, UN team has arrived in Balochistan and people senselessly criticize it. People of Balochistan don't trust any institution of this country and it must be a source of huge concern. Rather than idiotically blasting the UN working group one should search for reasons why this sort of situation has been created where UN teams have to interfere.
If UN teams have not gone to Kashmir or Palestine or not sent teams for Shia killing in doesn't mean that UN team on Balochistan should not have come. However people don't understand that Baloch missing persons is much bigger and wider issue than others and thats why merits attention from UN
@Ch. Allah Daad: I absolutely agree with you on this point.
UN team should also look into Punjabi settlers and Shia killings. The innocent Punjabi settlers and Shias killed by terrorists and separatists are hundreds of times more than these missing but actually under ground darlings of media and SC.
That is good news for relatives of missing people. I hope the team finds something critical. There surely is a need to pin down the authorities and powers of Pakistan Army and other Law Enforcing Agencies. Best of luck!!
so the team has started its investigation, besides none authority in government has taken the responsibility of inviting em....