Baloch National poet Qazi Mubarak visits Voice for Baloch Missing Persons protest camp

Karachi: The sit-in protest of the families of abducted Baloch have completed to 1003 days in total whereas 22 days in Karachi on Saturday.

The Baloch revolutionary poet Qazi Mubarak Baloch has visited the camp of VBMP to express his gratitude to the organisation on completion of their 1000 days protest for justice and freedom. Showing his solidarity with Mama Qadeer Baloch, vice chairman of Voice for Baloch Missing Persons, Mr Qazi said, “Baloch martyrs and enforced-disappeared persons have endured numerous brutalities and inhumane torture for national liberation of Balochistan.”

Balochistan: Thousands protest against enforced-disappearances of their loved ones

Occupied Balochistan: The families of abducted Baloch took out a protest rally against human rights violations and kill and dump of their loved ones by Pakistani security agencies. They demanded from the UN to take practical steps and play its role for safe release of enforced-disappeared Baloch.

According to details thousands of people rallied from Quetta Press Club to Assembly Chowk (roundabout) and staged a sit-in protest outside Serena Hotel where the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances had arrived to investigate the issue of missing persons in Balochistan. The Baloch Human Rights Organisation had given the call for the protest rally. The peaceful protesters were holding pictures of their disappeared and killed loved ones and placards inscribed against state atrocities in Balochistan.

Families of Baloch missing persons held demonstrations on Eid Day

Occupied Balochistan:Families of missing persons held demonstrations on deserted roads on Eid day to protest against the non-recovery of their dear ones.

The rally was organised and led by Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP) Chairman Nasrullah Baloch. Sister of Zakir Majeed Baloch, sister of Mir Abdul Wadood Raisani, Baloch Republican Party (Women’s Wing) President Huran Bibi and hundreds of others also tooK part in the protest.

Some of the souls in traumata, Others yet awaiting recognition

We enlisted here,

Some of the souls in traumata,

Others yet awaiting recognition,

Who serve as a reminder to the international community that genocide is not yet a word only in history books.

a report by : Voice for Baloch Missing Persons 

 Background

Balochistan, a sovereign state, was occupied by Pakistan on 27th of March 1948; since that day, in order to silence the voices for liberation and to instill fear among the general populace, Pakistan has employed a strategy of enforcedly disappearing people belonging to different age groups and occupations, of which only a small number has been documented in the list attached. The first people who were enforcedly disappeared were the friends and peers of Prince Abdul Karim, who were abducted in 1948, of which few were released and others are still missing, most probably murdered under custody.

Supreme Court seems helpless as abductions continue in Balochistan

Several Baloch youth have been abducted from different areas of Balochistan in past few days, as the Supreme Court has commented that the security agencies were not implementing the orders of the Court.

According to details reports Pakistani security forces attacked a Masque (Masjid) in Sui, Balochistan when people were engaged in reading their prayers (Taraweeh). The Imam (scholar) of the Masjid, Mulavi Mohammad Bakhsh Bugti, has reportedly been hospitalised after he was badly beaten by the Pakistani security personnel. The son of the Imam, Mohammad Siddiq Bugti, was taken away and is still being held at some undisclosed location. Abdul Nabi Bugti, another son of the Imam is already in the custody of Pakistani forces.

Two other people were abducted from Quetta and Gawadar town of Balochistan. The victims have been named as Mohammad Hafeez from satellite area Quetta and Kamran from Gawadar, who has been abducted when he was on his way to a nearby Market for shopping.