URGENT APPEAL: Two involuntarily disappeared persons found dead

American Friends of Balochistan

Liberation is a fundamental right of every nation

July 27, 2010

ATTN. Mr T. Kumar
Asia Director
Amnesty International &
other honorable officials and volunteers;
Washington DC

Dear Mr.T. Kumar,

Please see herewith a news item related to the extra judicial killing of two enforced and involuntarily disappeared persons Ashfaq Mullahzai, 25, and Farooq Mengal, 30, in Occupied Balochistan.

The two were in the custody of Pakistan’s secret service for more than two months.

There are more than 1,000 involuntarily disappeared persons in Occupied Balochistan, where the Baloch people are engaged in a struggle for freedom from Pakistan.

Two missing persons found dead

A young girl protests for missing relatives in Quetta. Photo: PPI

The bullet-riddled bodies of two men who had been missing since May 2009 were found on Qambrani Road here on Monday morning.

According to officials, residents of Qambrani Road spotted the two bodies lying in a field and informed local police. Police said the victims’ hands and feet were bound.