Another ‘missing’ Baloch activist turns up dead

KARACHI: Another ‘missing person’ from Balochistan was found dead in a Surjani Town locality of the city near Manghopir on Thursday, bringing the number of people who had been missing and were found dead over the past two months in Karachi to over a dozen.

The latest incident has raised apprehensions among the rights groups about the situation in Balochistan.

The police said that they had received information about the presence of a body on the Northern Bypass near Manghopir in the morning.

March 27 1948: WE SHALL OVERCOME ONE DAY

Baloch missing persons: 621 or 23,000? A matter of contested figures

Islamabad: There is still a huge gap between the number of missing persons’ cases in Balochistan, as documented by a government-sponsored judicial commission, and figures claimed by nationalist groups and non-governmental organisations such as the Voice for Baloch Missing Persons.

In a press statement, the Commission on the Inquiry of Enforced Disappearances said that the total number of cases currently stands at 621. However this figure is contested by Nasrullah Baloch, the chairperson of the Voice for Baloch Missing Persons.

Pakistani military convoy ambushed in Mand, 32 personnel killed, several injured

Occupied Balochistan: Baloch national defence forces have attacked the Pakistani occupying forces in Shehend area of Mand in Balochistan. According to reports, the convoy of Pakistani army is came under attack of Baloch freedom fighters by using rocket launchers and other automatic weapons, as a result three army trucks and an armored vehicle completely destroyed. The attack on army convoy by the Baloch freedom fighters was so sudden and unexpected that the occupying forces had got no chance to escape, and inflicted heavy losses on enemy forces. In this attack 32 army personnel killed, while several other injured.

اخلاقی طور پر قائل تبصرہ : میر محمد علی ٹالپر ترجمہ: لطیف بلیدی

ریاست اور اسکے ادارے اپنی بے رحمی کی انتہا کو پہنچ گئے ہیں اور انھوں نے بلوچ کیخلاف پہلے ہی سے اپنا سب کچھ داو پر لگا دیا ہے کیونکہ بلوچ اپنی جدوجہد جاری رکھے ہوئے ہیں

حال ہی میں اسلام آباد کی سپریم کورٹ میں لاپتہ افراد کیس کی سماعت پر راجہ ارشاد، جوکہ انٹر سروسز انٹیلی جنس (آئی ایس آئی) اور ملٹری انٹیلی جنس (ایم آئی) کے نمائندہ وکیل ہیں، چنانچہ یہ اعتراف کیا ہے کہ ’اڈیالہ 11‘ کیخلاف کوئی ثبوت موجود نہیں ہے، ان کا کہنا ہے کہ انہیں حراست میں رکھا گیا ہے کیونکہ یہ ایجنسیاں ”اخلاقی طور پر اس بات پر قائل ہیں کہ وہ دہشت گردی میں ملوث تھے۔“ یہ بیان باضابطہ طور پر آئی ایس آئی اور ایم آئی کے مو قف کو دہراتا ہے کہ اگر وہ ’اخلاقی طور پرقائل‘ ہوں کہ کوئی شخص مجرم ہے تو انہیں اس کو مارنے، اپاہج کرنے یا قید میں رکھنے کیلئے کسی ثبوت کی ضرورت نہیں ہے۔

COMMENT : Morally convinced — Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur

The state and its institutions have been ruthless to the extreme and have already upped the ante against the Baloch because they persist with their struggle

At the recent Supreme Court missing persons case hearing in Islamabad, Raja Irshad, the lawyer representing the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Military Intelligence (MI), while admitting that no evidence against the ‘Adiala 11’ existed said that they remained detained because these agencies were “morally convinced that they were involved in terrorism.” This statement has officially reiterated the ISI and MI’s position that if they are ‘morally convinced’ that someone is guilty then they do not need any evidence to kill, maim or incarcerate. It is worth mentioning that the bodies of the four original Adiala 11 accused were dumped, and when the others were presented in the court last year, such was their condition that a grief-stricken mother of an accused died of shock the next day. Next, the Attorney General admitted that 700 insurgents in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were held without trial but would not be released. How many Baloch are being held has not been confessed; the Voice of Missing Baloch Persons (VMBP) says 14,000 are missing. The powerless and blustering Supreme Court merely threatens action like the legendary raise seeker who threatened, “Raise my salary, otherwise I will…”

March 27 1948: WE SHALL OVERCOME ONE DAY

Balochs observe complete strike to mourn death of Ghaffar Lango

QUETTA: A complete shutter down strike was observed in Baloch dominated areas of Balochistan on Saturday in protest against the killing of Ghaffar Lango, whose body was found in Gadani area on Friday. Call for the strike was given by Baloch National Front and was supported by various student organisations.

Baloch’s daughter seeks help in father’s recovery

QUETTA: Daughter of a missing person, Dr Din Muhammad Baloch, has called upon national and international humanitarian organisations to play their due role for immediate recovery of her missing father.

Pakistan kills and dumps another Baloch youth

Occupied Balochistan: Another bullet-riddled body of a Baloch youth was found in Ferozabad area of Khuzdar district on Thursday when a strike was being observed to condemn the recovery of five mutilated bodies of political activists from Panjgour.