Senator Rubina Irfan urges federal government to stop abductions and Kill & dump in Balochistan

KARACHI: Voice for Baloch Missing Persons protest camp in front of Karachi Press Club entered its 1807^th day on Friday.

Senator Rubina Irfan and Abdul Aziz Memon former MNA and president of Memon Federation Pakistan along with several other social activists visited the VBMP protest camp to show their support and unity with the families of abducted Baloch activists.

Besides assuring their full support to the VBMP’s struggle against enforced-disappearances, they also demanded from the federal government of Pakistan to reduce the role of intelligence agencies in Balochistan and immediately release the enforced-disappeared Baloch activists. They said the government should take steps to end the discovery of mutilated bodies in Balochistan.

Vice chairman of Voice for Baloch Missing Persons, Qadeer Baloch and General Secretary Farzana Majeed Baloch told the delegation that in the past the state forces abducted Baloch men, youth and elderly but now they have started targeting killing and abducting Baloch females as well.

They said: “Our daughters and sisters are being target killed and abducted by intelligence agencies and their hired criminal gangs (military’s proxy death squads).

“Recently three women along with their children were abducted from Dera Bugti, acids sprayed at the faces of several women in different areas. In Tump Balochistan a Baloch girl, Shahnaz Baloch, was shot dead inside her houses and few days ago three female polio workers were shot dead in Quetta.”

According to VBMP at least 200 Baloch women and children including Zarina Marri and Hanifa Bugti are still missing from Dera Bugti, Kohlu and other areas of Balochistan.

The VBMP leaders alleged that the military and intelligence agencies of Pakistan want to continue Baloch genocide under different pretexts and the situation of Bangladesh was being repeated in Balochistan in the guise of discovery of mass graves, target killings and under-custody killings of enforced-disappeared persons.

They told the delegation that one of the reason that many Baloch activists are missing from so many years is that they might have been killed in custody and buried in undisclosed locations.

“In dictator Musharraf’s era the Attorney General Malik Mohammad Qayyum had admitted that several missing persons have died in custody of security forces. His statement proves that enforced-disappeared persons from Balochistan and elsewhere were killed in custody of security forces,” VBMP leaders told the delegation.

They said that there were also rumours that bodies of missing persons were buried near Islamabad. The Baloch people had shown extreme concerned to draw the attention of international Human Rights organisation and democratic nations toward Baloch genocide.

The international community did express their concern and asked Pakistan to stop its atrocities in Balochistan but the Pakistani media, civil society and political parties are in complete silence about killed and dump and abductions in Balochistan, Said VBMP leaders.