The relatives of missing persons marked the ninth consecutive Eid with a protest in Quetta to demand immediate and safe recovery of their family members who have been missing from different parts of Balochistan.
Several women, carrying placards and portraits of their loved ones, gathered outside the Quetta Press Club soon after Eid prayers.
The protesters held demonstrations outside the Balochistan High Court. Women and children participated in the rally and chanted slogans accusing security agencies of whisking away their loved ones and detaining them in illegal torture cells.
Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VFBMP), an organisation working towards the safe recovery of missing persons, said two more Baloch political activists were reported missing from Kohlu.
“My brother Zakir Majeed went missing five years ago near Quetta. We know security agencies are behind this illegal abduction because my brother was a senior leader of Baloch Student Organisation (BSO-Azad),” general secretary of VFBMP and human rights activist based in Balochistan Farzana Majeed told The Express Tribune.
VFBMP demands that if the abducted Baloch political leader has committed a crime, he should be taken to court, she added.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 1st, 2014.
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@Baloch: Right! they are terrorists, so what about the corps commanders statement that it's the Indian and Afghan Agencies that are involved and what Baloch male living in a safe haven would want females or little children from their family to roam around the entire country? so who are we supposed to believe then? the Patriotic Parrot who says they are terrorists implying the army did take them or the corps commander who says it was Indian and Afghan agencies?
.....but we have Gaza to shed tears over.
Many of these so-called "Misisng Persons" are BLA, BRA terrrorists who have either been killed during terrorists activities or are living in safe havens in Afghanistan. Balochistan Missing Persons case is a huge scam.
Excesses committed by Punjab dominated security forces targeting Baloch origin people such as enforced disappearances besides extra judicial executions, torture, custodial rape, sponsoring death squad militia’s and the like will inevitably be resisted by the freedom yearning people of Balochistan. The 700,000 Punjabi dominated occupation forces will not succeed in dousing the fire of liberation in Balochistan as indeed was the case with the erstwhile East Pakistan which forms todays Bangladesh.
India must provide fullest diplomatic and moral support to the Baloch freedom struggle. Consulates in Iran and Afghanistan must provide all necessary help.
@Zarb-e-Hanood:
What you term “national narrative in Pakistan” may not take a “beating” as there is the crutch that there was only one head to head Indo-Pakistani contest, that of the 107 seconds blitz of Sushil Kumar which demolished Pakistan wrestler Qamar Abbas. To that crutch could be added mental anguish at insult of use of dogs in the game’s opening ceremony, acute sorrow caused by Israel’s actions in Gaza, toll of fasting during Ramazan and Un-Islamic advantage enjoyed by India of being able to have women contest at the games.
Missing,killing and dumping new way,inhuman way.