Zakir Majeed, Abdul Hamid Jamal, Mehboob Wadhela, Faiz Mohammad Marri and hundreds of other Baloch "” it is impossible to name all "” are missing. The unrestrained impunity with which they are disappeared, tortured and then thrown along highways just shows the epoch that the perpetrators suppose they live in
The Obama administration and State Department may not yet realize it, but Pakistan's security agencies have just delivered their opinion of the New York Times-delivered public scolding.
Those who were hoping that 2010 would gradually see an improvement in the state of affairs in Balochistan now have to review their opinion. In the first week of the new year, three more missing Baloch persons' bullet-riddled dead bodies have been recovered from the province. This comes a week after the publication of a report in The New York Times saying that the Obama Administration was alarmed about the growing enforced disappearances in Pakistan, particularly in Balochistan.
I appeal to the United Nations, Amnesty International, the Arab League, the European Nation and other human rights organizations to take note: a student like me has been abducted and tortured. There are thousands of other innocent young students in Balochistan who are also missing, being brutally tortured and killed. No one is drawing attention to all these inhumane activities of the Pakistani army. - Jamal Baloch, 2010
Levy forces found a brutally tortured body near Koshik on the Quetta-Taftan road and have shifted the body to district headquarters in Mastung for identification.
PASNI: In another case of "˜enforced disappearance' of a journalist in Balochistan, a senior member of Pasni Press Club Mohammad Siddiq Eidho and one of his friends Yosuaf Baloch were whisked away by what the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) blamed as personnel working for the country's intelligence agencies.
The President of Khuzdar Press Club and a senior journalist Mohammad Khan Sasoli has been killed, police confirmed.
A ruthless war has been going on in the Pakistani controlled Balochistan for the last five years, in which thousands of innocent men, women and children have been mercilessly killed, hundreds of thousands have been displaced and thousands are missing.
Pakistan's security forces and secret services have abducted a Baloch youth in the port city of Gwadar, just a day after the international human rights day.
The 6th International Conference against Disappearances began on December 10, 2010. Delegates from 23 countries took part in this conference, including relatives of missing persons. ICAD (International Committee against Disappearances) organised the conference and International Voice for Baloch Missing Persons is also supporting the conference. The three-day conference will end tomorrow with a protest rally/march beginning at Marble Arch and ending at 10 Downing Street.