Daily Archives: May 25, 2009
Missing in Balochistan
By Qurat ul ain Siddiqui – DAWN.COM
‘It was a white car. My face was covered with a black mask so I could not see and my hands had been tied… they began beating me up instantly,’ recalls Adnan Baloch, who was picked up in Quetta on April 18, 2009, while on his way back home from his college. He claims that eventually the car stopped outside a ‘torture cell’ and he ‘was treated with electric shocks all day long’ and ‘which ended up paralysing both his legs’.According to him, he was released in Mastung a day later and was taken to a hospital for treatment. ‘The police was there at the hospital…and even before I could begin talking about registering an FIR, I was told that it would not be registered,’ he adds.Although Adnan has been released after the ‘abduction and subsequent physical torture, for being politically active and for being the nephew of currently missing Baloch Republican Party’s central leader Chakar Qambrani,’ there are several in Balochistan who continue to remain missing.
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