An intrepid leader

Sindhi youth and political activists have been observing Nazir Abbasi's death anniversary each year in remembrance of the hardships he faced throughout his life and for the kind of inspiring leader he was. - File Photo

Sohail Sangi

Nazir Abbasi was a courageous, intrepid student leader who was killed on August 9, 1989 during Zia-ul-Haq’s regime while under custody. According to Abbasi’s family, he was being held by secret agencies and it was a certain Colonel Imtiaz Ahmed who tortured him to death. Since then Sindhi youth and political activists have been observing his death anniversary each year in remembrance of the hardships Abbasi faced throughout his life and for the kind of inspiring leader he was.

Aug 11: Independence Day – Balochistan

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International panel to be launched to rescue victims of enforced disappearances in Balochistan

by Ahmar Mustikhan

An international panel is being launched in Sweden to help rescue Baloch victims of enforced disappearances whose lives are in peril in the custody of Pakistan’s Military Intelligence and its sister Inter-Services Intelligence in southwestern Balochistan

The panel is being formed on an urgent basis in the backdrop of the alleged killing of half dozen Baloch victims of enforced disappearances within the last two weeks.