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UN to be Briefed on Disappearances, Killings of Sindhi Youth

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Washington: A US-based community organization working for the welfare of Sindhi people has said it will brief the UN on the enforced disappearances and killings of the youth that take place in Pakistan’s Sindh province.

A delegation of Sindhi Foundation comprising Hasan Mujtaba, journalist and human rights defender on Sindh and Sufi Laghari, executive director of the organisation will brief the 107th session of the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances to be held in Geneva on September 17, according to a media report.

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Baloch family appeal for release of their loved ones

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Occupied Balochistan: Family of Mohammad Ramzan Baloch urged the international community to pressurise Pakistan for the safe and immediate release of their loved ones.

Ramzan Baloch’s relatives said he is missing since 25 July 2010 but the security forces of Pakistan and judiciary have failed to discover him. “We have been to courts and registered his case with the Supreme Court but all to no avail.”

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Mehran Baloch speak at United Nations HR council 14-09-2012

Item 3: (General Debate) Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development

ITEM 3: INTERVENTION BY MEHRAN BALUCH

Honorable President,

At the very outset allow me to thank the members of the U.N. Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearance, led by Rapporteur chair Professor Olivier de Frouville and Professor Osman El-Hajje, who are on a 10-day fact finding mission to Pakistan, with special focus on Balochistan. Balochistan, as many in this council are fully aware, is today the world capital of enforced disappearances.

These enforced disappearances in Balochistan pose the most serious challenge to the rights and freedoms promised by the U.N. to peoples of the world under Item 3.

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UN should take practical steps in Balochistan – BSO-Azad

Baloch Student’s Organization (Azad)’s spokesperson in a released statement stated that United Nation’s working group after being aware of Pakistan’s atrocities in Balochistan should use UN’s mandate in accordance with the International Laws, to take practical steps to end such atrocities and the occupation of Balochistan by Pakistan, instead of asking Pakistan’s state organs to take any steps by themselves.

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احساسِ افتادگی و ناامیدی تبصرہ : میر محمد علی ٹالپر ترجمہ: لطیف بلیدی

ڈبلیو جی ای آئی ڈی نے واضح طور پر کہا کہ ان کا ”حقائق جاننے والا“ مشن فقط ”انسانی“ بنیادوں پر مبنی تھا اور انہیں کسی طور سے بھی ثبوت جمع کرنے کا کام نہیں سونپا گیا

اقوام متحدہ کا ورکنگ گروپ برائے جبری یا غیر رضاکارانہ گمشدگیاں (ڈبلیو جی ای آئی ڈی)، جوکہ چیئرپرسن اولیویئر ڈی فراو ولے اور عثمان ال حجے پر مشتمل تھا، اپنے دس روزہ باضابطہ دورے کے اختتام پر انہوں نے ایک مختصر رپورٹ میں اپنے خیالات کا اظہار کیا۔ انہوں نے تکلیف دہ انداز میں بلوچستان اور دیگر مقامات میں لاپتہ افراد کی حالت زار پر زور دیا کہ، ”زیادہ تر خاندانوں، کہ جن سے ہم ملے ہیں، اپنی کہانیاں بتاتے، افتادگی اور ناامیدی کے احساس میں مبتلا ہیں۔“ وہ خاندان صرف اسی طرح ہی محسوس کرسکتے ہیں جنکے لاپتہ رشتہ داروں کو ریاست کی طرف سے ’غیر رضاکارنہ طور پر غائب‘ کردیا گیا ہو اور جن کیلئے انصاف مہیا ہونے کا کوئی ذریعہ نہ ہو، کیونکہ کوئی بھی ادارہ، یہاں تک کہ اگر وہ چاہے تو تب بھی، اتنا طاقتور یا بے دھڑک اقدام اٹھانے والا نہیں ہے کہ وہ ’جبری اور غیر رضاکارانہ طور پر گمشدگیوں‘ کے ذمہ داران کو چیلنج کرسکے۔

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Balochistan’s missing persons studied by UN working group

As a separatist movement simmers in Balochistan, more and more are disappearing. The UN is now investigating.

By Suzanna Koster 

Farzana Majeed Baloch with Zakir Majeed’s picture

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — Farzana Majeed Baloch, 27, has been going from pillar to post to get her missing brother back. She went to the police, press clubs and the court. She held a hunger strike, called human rights organizations and even the federal interior ministry. But she has heard nothing.

“No institution was ready to hear me. Even the Supreme Court failed,” she told Global Post.

A colleague of her brother’s told Farzana that he witnessed security forces at a checkpoint whisk her brother and another friend away in 2009. She believes her brother is now in a detention centre in Quetta, the capital of Pakistan’s largest province, Balochistan.

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ببول کے درخت سے اسٹرابیری کی توقع تبصرہ : میر محمد علی ٹالپر ترجمہ: لطیف بلیدی

ڈبلیو جی ای آئی ڈی کی گزشتہ سالانہ رپورٹ میں کہا گیا تھا کہ پاکستان میں جبری گمشدگیاں خلاف معمول سطح تک پہنچ چکی ہیں، اور بلوچستان میں عام شہریوں کے اغواء پر تشویش کا اظہار کیا تھا

اقوام متحدہ کا ورکنگ گروپ برائے جبری یا غیر رضاکارانہ گمشدگیاں، جوکہ اولیویئر ڈی فراو ولے اور عثمان ال حجے اور دیگر پر مشتمل ہے، خاص طور پر ’جبری گمشدگی‘ اور بنیادی طور پر بلوچستان کی تھرا دینے والی اور کم حد تک صوبہ خیبر پختونخواہ اور سندھ میں انسانی حقوق کی حالت کا جائزہ لینے کے سلسلے میں 10 دن کے دورے نے قومی اسمبلی میں غم و غصہ کی لہر پیدا کی ہے اور اسے پاکستان کی خودمختاری کی خلاف ورزی اور پاکستان کی سالمیت کیلئے خطرہ پیدا کرنے کے مترادف قرار دیا ہے۔ میں نے کبھی بھی اس سے زیادہ کمزور اور غیر محفوظ ملک اور اس کے نمائندے نہیں دیکھے جو ڈبلیو جی ای آئی ڈی کی بین الاقوامی سطح پر قابل احترام انسانی حقوق کے ماہرین پر مشتمل وفد کی طرف سے خطرہ محسوس کرتے ہوں۔ یہ کوئی ریمبو تو نہیں ہیں۔

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COMMENT : Feeling abandoned and hopeless — Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur

The WGEID clearly stated that theirs was a “fact finding” mission based on “humanitarian” considerations and they were in no way tasked with collecting evidence 

The delegation of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) composed of Olivier de Frouville, chairperson, and Osman El-Hajjé, on conclusion of its ten-day official visit gave its views in a brief report. They poignantly underlined the plight of the missing persons in Balochistan and other places with, “Most of the families we have met, telling their stories, felt abandoned and hopeless.” That is the only way that the families can feel when their missing relatives have been ‘involuntarily disappeared’ by the state and are left with no recourse to justice because no institution, even if it so desired, is strong or foolhardy enough to challenge those responsible for ‘enforced and involuntary disappearances’.

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U.N. abductions team tells Pakistan to end impunity for military

Olivier de Frouville chairs a Geneva-based U.N. panel that monitors allegations of state-sponsored disappearances around the world during a news conference with panel member Osman El Hajje in Islamabad

By Matthew Green – Reuters

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – U.N. experts urged Pakistan on Thursday to investigate allegations that security forces had abducted hundreds of people and take steps to hold powerful intelligence agencies to account.

The remarks are likely to irritate the military establishment in Pakistan, where Western allies mostly avoid making public statements over the disappearances for fear of antagonizing generals who exert huge sway over foreign policy.

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Post UN visit: Agencies threatening to kill chairman and members of our Organisation: VBMP

Occupied Balochistan: Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP) Chairman Nasurrallah Baloch has said that his and other members of VBMP’s lives are in danger thus he has sent a letter to the Supreme Court registrar and the United Nations. He informed the SC and UN if any harm is caused to him or other members of Voice for Baloch Missing Persons, the secret agencies of Pakistani should be held responsible.

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