Balochistan: Pakistan forces abduct and sexually assault two women and a 14-year-old girl

QUETTA: Pakistan security forces and their local collaborators have abducted two Baloch women and a 14-year-old girl from district Panjgur, kept them in their custody for three days and sexually assaulted them before their release.

According to details, two women (mother and daughter) wife and daughter of late Abid Hussain were on their way, in a private cab, to visit their families in Surod area of Panjgur when Pakistan’s army’s local spies intercepted the cab and tried to kidnap them.

The women reportedly ask the taxi driver to drop them at any nearby house where they could seek protection. The taxi driver dropped them at the gate of a house and women immediately took refuge inside but the military and their collaborators forcibly took them away at gunpoint.

The two women were taken to a nearby military camp where they were kept for three days, physically tortured and sexually assaulted due to which the women’s condition deteriorated and they were thrown into a deserted canal where locals found them.

Different local sources and at least two journalists have confirmed the incidents on conditions of anonymity for security reasons.

Another source from Panjgur informed BalochWarna News that a few days ago Pakistani forces also abducted a 14-year-old Baloch girl and physically assaulted her. She was released after a few hours. Our source said her family did not report the incident to local authorities and media because of threats of dire consequences from the kidnappers.

Meanwhile, the family of the two women have issued a statement to media that they were not kidnapped and assaulted.

However, the local independent sources said the statement was made under duress and the family was coerced so that Pakistani forces and their local death squads’ crime and anti-social behaviours can continue to go unnoticed.

Such incidents have become regular because of which there is an environment of fear and panic among the local population. Many young girls have stopped going to schools and shopping because of the fear of being abducted and assaulted by Pakistani troops.

Pakistani forces have already occupied and vacated several schools in Balochistan and turned them into their military bases and torture centres.

Baloch pro-freedom activists and parties believe that such inhuman tactics of Pakistani forces are part of their policy of collective punishment of the relatives and families of pro-freedom Baloch in an effort to pressurise abandon the struggle for liberation.