VBMP long march attacked near Winder

BALOCHISTAN: An unknown Alto car attacked Mama Qadeer Baloch the Vice Chairman of Voice of Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP) near Winder on Tuesday morning November 19, 2013. A Alto car driven by unknown men tried to run over him twice.

According to the telephonic conversion with Baloch Human Rights Council (BHRC-Canada) Mama Qadeer survived an attack after he was chased near Winder Balochistan by what he describes was a beige color Alto car.

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PAKISTAN: A video exposes the fake encounter in which a student leader was extrajudicially killed

Statement: Asian Human Rights Commission

On August 22 the Asian Human Rights Commission issued an urgent appeal, PAKISTAN: A student leader was extrajudicial killed in a fake encounter conducted the intelligence agencies. We have now come into possession of a video produced by the police which was leaked to the AHRC which attempts to prove that Mr. Afzal Panhwar was killed in a legitimate police encounter. However, if anything, the video proves conclusively that the encounter was in fact, a fake and set up by the police.

Unheeded cry for help: March for the ‘missing’

DAWN.COM Editorial

IT constitutes a picture that any society would find unbearably moving — if that society still had it in itself to care: a group of some two dozen people, mainly women and children, resolutely traversing on foot the long and arduous terrain from Quetta to Karachi. Led by Mama Qadeer Baloch, they clutch pictures of loved ones who have ‘gone missing’, a euphemism for men thought to have been illegally apprehended and detained by the shadowy intelligence and security apparatus. The march has been undertaken by the advocacy group Voice for Baloch Missing Persons. Why? Because despite the ‘missing persons’ having been an issue for several years now, despite sporadic initiatives by various parties and the mouthing of good intentions, despite the Supreme Court’s instructions, there has been no meaningful progress. Mutilated bodies of men continue to be found dumped across the province, and even in Karachi; calls for the security establishment to disclose the facts go ignored — as does the plight of the families of the missing by both state and citizenry that seem to have washed their hands of Balochistan and its many legitimate grievances.