SCP has dismissed Balochistan’s 197 missing person cases from the court: Nasrulla Baloch

BALOCHISTAN, 8 Dec 2015: Nasrulla Baloch, the chairman of Voice of Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP) said Supreme Court of Pakistan has discharged 197 cases of missing person from the court which were from Balochistan; the total cases of missing person in Pakistan are more than 27 thousand.

Addressing a press conference at Quetta Press Club on Tuesday he told the journalists, 197 cases of missing person related to Balochistan were dismissed from the Supreme Court on the advice of chief secretary Balochistan.

Gold diggers in Balochistan

by Murtaza Haider

The caretakers were expected to take care and the governors were supposed to govern. However, in Reko Diq’s case, governance failed and the care was never provided.

In a recent judgement, the Supreme Court of Pakistan has declared illegal the July 1993 agreement between the Balochistan Development Authority (BDA) and Australia’s BHP. Since the original agreement stands null and void, all subsequent sales and transfers of the exploration rights by BHP to Tethyan Copper Co. (TCC), which is jointly owned by Canada’s Barrick Gold Corporation and Chile’s Antofagasta, have been deemed illegal and void.

Pakistan’s crimes against humanity in Balochistan tantamount to genocide: Hyrbyair Marri

London : “The main issue of Balochistan is the illegal occupation, not the enforced-disappearances. People are being disappeared because of struggle against the occupation of Balochistan. Provincialists are misusing the issue of abducted Baloch to pave their way to reach the Parliament of occupying state. They should know that so called suo–motu action by Supreme Court is another phase of ongoing operations against Baloch people. The Baloch people are courageously continuing their struggle against Pakistani barbarism and Baloch patriots are holding the flag of freedom high. Hence, Pakistan is hesitant and using the judiciary and provincialists to weaken the Baloch freedom struggle”, Baloch patriot leader Hyrbyair Marri expressed these views in a statement from London.

COMMENT : A ray of hope? — Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur

There is no denying that Sardar Akhtar Mengal has influence but his capitulation has alienated many Baloch people and his powerbase will erode rapidly

Sardar Akhtar Mengal’s unexpected capitulation and appearance before the Supreme Court (SC) has pleased a few but angered a majority of the Baloch. He has climbed down from his position of demanding an independent Balochistan. In the Daily Times of May 8, 2009, its then Quetta correspondent Malik Siraj Akbar reported Akhtar Mengal’s speech from the western Panjgur district bordering Iran. Mengal said that the ultimate goal of his party (BNP-M) was to seek Balochistan’s independence from Pakistan, for which the party was striving to prepare the ground and ensure unity among all Baloch nationalist political groups. The BNP-M chief said the Baloch had become tired of the unabated military operations and the excessive exploitation of their natural resources by the federal government, and now the BNP-M wanted the separation of Balochistan from Pakistan. Such climbdowns certainly have good reasons, the good reason here being a shot at the lucrative chief ministerial post. A bad bargain for sure, because Baloch rights would be bartered for a pittance. Wading through Baloch blood to this coveted position is insincerity personified.

Appeal for missing persons cases of Balochistan

An Appeal to the Mr. Iftaikhar Mohammad Choudhary,the Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Pakistan

by Voice for Baloch Missing Persons.

( Balochistan, Sri Lanka Guardian) As you know that under the given circumstances, the people of Balochistan are suffering for the last many years due to highhandedness of intelligence agencies and paramilitary forces. The family members of Baloch missing persons have formed a non-political organization with the name of Voice for Baloch Missing Persons to raise voice over human rights abuses and to seek the release of their dear and near ones in Balochistan.