PAKISTAN: Balochistan unearthing dead bodies in the thousands

Balochistan Province continues to suffer the wrath of law enforcement agencies; even by official figures, corpses found are threatening to breach the 1,000 mark in recent years. The real numbers are greater, with violent death scarring the countryside and blotting humanity.

According to official reports, nearly a thousand bullet-ridden corpses have been recovered from various parts of Balochistan in the past six years. Many of these corpses have been unrecognizable, with the faces burnt by the use of acid, a tactic used by the intelligence agencies. The official data also discloses that over 112 persons are still missing in the Province.

Congress Backs PM Narendra Modi, Wants Balochistan, PoK Issues Raised

New Delhi:  The Congress has supported Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his remarks on Balochistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in his Independence Day speech, also distancing itself from comments made by its senior leader Salman Khurshid, who had criticised the PM’s speech.

In a statement on Monday evening, the main opposition party asked the government to raise the issue of Pakistan’s human rights abuses in its large province of Balochistan and in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir or PoK, at bilateral meetings with Islamabad as well as at international forums.

Support for PM Narendra Modi’s Baloch remark

NEW DELHI: An outpouring of support followed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remarks on Pakistani atrocities in Balochistan, with the Baloch Republican Party, Baloch National Party and Balochi dissidents and exiles in Europe and USA seeking India’s intervention.

Most of the exiled Baloch leaders took to microblogging site Twitter to express their gratitude and support for Modi, who on Friday became the first Indian PM to call for exposing Pakistan’s atrocities in Balochistan, one of  the four provinces in Pakistan.