Protester Beurag, 4, Loses Hope As Activist Father, Jalil Reki's Bullet-Riddled Body Resurfaces in Panjgur
Reki's father, Mama Qadeer Baloch, is one of the most important leaders of the Voice for Missing Baloch Persons, an organization formed by the relatives of the missing persons. He had joined and improved the performance of the organization after the disappearance of his son, a former banker.
Balochistan mourns its missing
"No real efforts have been made to recover these persons," Nasrullah Baloch, chairman of the Voice of Baloch Missing Persons, an organization that works for the rights of people missing in Balochistan, told IRIN. He said "most victims are poor and are affiliated with political or nationalist groups". The group says about 14,000 people are missing while 230 bodies have been recovered from various parts of Balochistan since June 2010.
Pakistani Journalist Given U.S. Asylum Tells of Threats, Disappearances in Baluchistan
One after another, his friends and colleagues were disappearing, he learned, and their bodies were turning up with bullet holes and burn marks.
AHRC: The bullet riddled bodies of nine more missing persons including one journalist were found
The disappearances and extrajudicial killings continue and not a single day goes by without the abduction and murder of activists. The family members of disappeared persons who were holding a protest meeting and token hunger strike outside the Quetta Press Club at the capital of Balochistan province were warned by some plain clothed persons that they should wind up their meeting otherwise they would face serious problems.
Shooting the Messenger
The gory list of Baloch journalists being brutally killed presumably by the Pakistani intelligence agencies continues to increase with the latest brutal murder of Javed Naseer Rind. A former deputy editor of Urdu-language newspaper, Daily Tawar, and an articulate columnist, Rind was indeed a smart and professional journalist whose services and bold columns will be missed by his readers.
Baloch missing persons: On Eid, relatives hold rally instead of celebrations
QUETTA: Scores of women and children rallied in Quetta on Eidul Azha to protest against the practice of enforced disappearances in Balochistan and appealed to the world community, particularly the United Nations and International Humanitarian Organisations, to play their role in ending the man-made humanitarian disaster in the province.
What lies beneath
Beneath Karachi's dazzling lights and bustling commerce is a dark underworld of kidnappings, murder and torture.
Europe News - Upsurge in extra judicial killings in Balochistan
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As the Baloch National Movement for liberation gains momentum, atrocities by Pakistan army against Baloch political leaders, students and intellectuals are on the rise.
Mehran Baluch addresses UN Human Rights Council
"The attack on Baluchistan's cultural landscape is serious. On June the 1st, Professor Saba Dashtiyari was killed by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency in Quetta. The victim was a cultural icon of Baluchistan and an institution by himself...He was also called the Noam Chomsky of Baluchistan because of his liberal outlook on life and society...."
AHRC: To-date 206 disappeared persons have been extrajudicially killed in Balochistan during the past 15 months
The situation of Balochistan is no different to that of the former East Pakistan (Bangladesh) when the military carried out operations and killed more than 300,000 people in the guise of protecting ideological boundaries.
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