Local elders forbade me to protest against the enforced disappearance of my children: Shabbir Ahmed Reiki

My Sons are being held at an unknown location after being taken into custody by Pakistani forces – father of missing Muhammad Asif and Allah Din Reiki

Shabbir Ahmed Reiki, a resident of Surab district in Balochistan, said that his two sons have gone missing after being detained by Pakistani security forces Frontier Corps (FC) and intelligence personnel in Surab and their whereabouts are unknown.

A brief report on human rights violations in Balochistan by VBMP

Composed by Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP)

 1: This year in 2015 many parts of Balochistan operations were conducted, and in some areas it is still going on. Many deputations came from the operation hit areas to report abductions and enforced disappearances by paramilitary troops. Security forces have already thrown the mutilated bodies of numerous missing Baloch.

In district Noshki during an operation four mutilated bodies were found. According to the claim of security forces they were the insurgents killed in the combat among these bodies one was recognized as a previously abducted Baloch who was arrested with his brother six months earlier and his whereabouts remained unknown until the Noshki operation. In a change of policy the Pakistani security forces have started to dump the bodies of previously abducted Baloch during operation claiming that they were militants killed during battle. Whereas VBMP have them listed as missing from past several years.

ISI threatens peaceful Baloch marchers to suspend their long march to Islamabad

Pubjab, Pakistan: The Voice for Baloch Missing Persons Long March ended their 39th day of walked on Monday 15 Kilometer away from Rajanpur.

Despite many obstacles the marchers were determined to continue their journey to reached Islamabad.

Four members of ISI stopped the march near Rajanpur and tried to pressurise them to abandon their walk but the leaders of march insisted that they will continue the march to reach Islamabad.

State institutions are whisking away youngsters as the Baloch genocide: VBMP

Members of political parties and civil society concerned over extra-judicial detentions, enforced disappearances and recovery of mutilated bodies. Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP) had organised the session at Quetta Press Club.

BALOCHISTAN – Various politicians and civil society members have expressed deep concern over the incidents of extra-judicial detentions, disappearances and recovery of mutilated bodies in Balochistan.

The Voice for Baloch Missing Persons organised a session, “The role of democratic political parties and civil society in curbing the extra judicial killings,’ here at the Press Club Tuesday.

COMMENT: Eyewash — Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur

Because of the massively warped allocations, no educational institution in Balochistan would be able to compete with those in Punjab

During the recent ‘missing persons’ hearing in Quetta the Supreme Court (SC) Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry said that there is no proper checking in the city. The check posts manned by the Frontier Corps (FC), customs and police are just an ‘eyewash’; ‘hogwash’ would be more appropriate, and smuggling continues as the FC border check posts are simply symbolic and used for making money. He said that the available evidence showed the FC personnel’s involvement in some incidents of missing persons, and the missing persons’ relatives blame the FC for disappearances. Apparently, it has only now dawned on them that all that happens in Balochistan is an eyewash; the people of Balochistan have always known these injustices and have been trying to rouse sleeping consciences but failed. All institutional measures and actions there are hogwash.

70 bodies had been found during the tenure of the incumbent government: Nasrullah Baloch

BALOCHISTAN: Voice for Baloch Missing Persons Chairman Nasrullah Baloch said that around 70 bodies had been found from different areas of Balochistan during the tenure of the incumbent government.

Addressing a press conference along with VBMP Vice Chairman Mama Qadeer Baloch at a hunger strike camp outside the Quetta Press Club for the recovery of Baloch missing persons, he said that 26 missing persons’ bodies had been found from different areas of Karachi.

Mother of abducted Baloch student threatens Self-immolation in front of UN office

BALOCHISTAN: The Voice for Baloch Missing Persons and family of abducted Baloch student Zakir Majeed Baloch took out a protest rally on Saturday 8 June 2013 for safe release of Zakir Majeed Baloch. Mr Majeed was abducted four years ago on 8 June 2009 from Mastung area of Balochistan.

The rally was led by the Vice Chairman of Voice for Baloch Missing Persons, Qadeer Baloch, and the family of Zakir Majeed. A large number of Baloch activists and students took part in rally to express their support with family of enforced-disappeared person in Balochistan.

The BALOCH who is not MISSING & others who are – Mohammed Hanif

Since 2005, the Human Rights Commission has been paying special attention to the increasingly alarming human rights situation in Balochistan. The Commission has organized four fact-finding missions to the province, the reports of which have been widely disseminated. A special desk on missing persons has also been set up in Quetta that maintains data on enforced disappearances and killings.

However, it was after reading Mohammed Hanif’s account of his meeting with Qadeer Baloch in Dawn that the idea of a book came to me. Hanif’s conversation with Qadeer Baloch about the disappearance and killing of his son, Jaleel Reiki, was moving – and disturbing – in a way that statistics can never be. I knew that if HRCP were to publish a book about the missing in Balochistan, Hanif would be the writer to put the stories together. He was quick to agree and joined HRCP’s fact-finding mission to Balochistan in May 2012.

BALOCHISTAN: SHOCKING DETAILS ON PAK’S BARBARIANISM EXPOSED

Karachi, Sri Lanka Guardian: The Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP) is purely a non-political organization has been formed by the families of missing persons in 27 September 2009 with the sole objective of seeking the safe release of their enforced disappeared members by raising voice peacefully on all form.  As you know from the formation of the organization till to date our organization is striving for the safe recovery of missing persons, and now more than 1000 days the member of the organization is sitting on token hunger strike camp.

Enforced-disappearances continue in Balochistan, twelve Baloch abducted in two days

Occupied Balochistan: Pakistani security forces abducted at least twelve Baloch activists from Mastung and Dera Bugti areas of Balochistan in past two days.

In first incident the Pakistani security forces abducted five Baloch youth from Reki Bhosa area near Kadh Kucha in Mastung town of Balochistan.

According to eye-witnesses report the security forces came in two trucks and surrounded houses. Later they abducted five youth during search operation. The forces also created havoc and harassed residents of the region.