Pakistan Army becomes largest beneficiary of drug business in Balochistan

BALOCHISTAN: Pakistan Army has become the largest party to benefit from drug trafficking business in Balochistan, Abid Zamurani The Balochistan Post’s correspondent, reports from Panjgur.

Makuran region of Balochistan has recently become one of the main international drug trafficking routes in the region. Drugs are trafficked through this route to various parts of the world in large quantities. Along with smugglers the Pakistan Army has also played a major role to make this happen. Other than giving impunity to drug dealers like Imam Bheel, senior officers of Pakistan Army have also made riches out of the drug business. These officers have become millionaires by reselling the drugs caught in “anti-narcotics” raids.

Aug 30: International day for Enforce Disappeared

Brutal Pakistan Army after Balochistan now haunts Sindh

No state, which is part of the UN, should be allowed to abduct and kill its own citizens with such impunity as Pakistan, especially its army, has been doing in Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and, now Sindh

By Allabaskh

Sindh is now fast becoming the new killing field for Pakistan Army. Scores of Sindhis, mostly those who have been raising their voice against injustice and human rights violations, are disappearing into secret prisons, detained illegally, tortured and many of them then brutally killed and their bodies dumped unceremoniously. What is happening in Sindh today is what has been happening in Balochistan for decades.

Aug 26: Tiger of Balochistan; Shaheed Nawab Akhbar Khan Bugti

Shaheed-e-Wattan

Aug 26: Shaheed Kamisa Khan Marri and his unknown comrades

Aug 25: Shaheed Altaf Baloch

Aug 22: Shaheed Shahmir Marri

Aug 19: Shaheed Ali Mohammed Mengal

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Aug 14: Shaheed Gulzar Marri

Missing stories from Sindh

Punhal Sario’s abduction, followed by more disappearances, has raised questions about Sindh’s missing persons

By: Fehmida Riaz

Followed by protests and a long march by the families of Baloch missing persons, of late it is the missing persons of Sindh that are making headlines. The abduction of Punhal Sario on August 3, a renowned human rights activist, head of Sindh Hari Porhyat Council and convener of the recently established Voice for Missing Persons (VMP) Sindh, has shaken many human rights activists and organisations.

A few days after Sario went missing, on the evening of August 7, three more well-known social activists were picked up from their homes in Mithi city of Tharparkar. According to their families, teacher and educationist Partab Shivani, teacher and writer Naseer Kumbhar, and a leader of Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM) Mohammad Umer, were ‘abducted’ by plainclothes officials along with Tharparkar police personnel. Tharparkar SSP Ameer Saud Magsi told local journalists that he has no information regarding their ‘abduction’.