Balochistan: Pakistani forces abduct five Baloch youth from Surab

QUETTA: The Pakistan forces have abducted five Baloch youth including two nephews of the Vice-Chairman of Voice for Baloch Missing Persons from Surab region of Balochistan on Wednesday.

According to details, Pakistan FC and plain-clothed intelligence officials conducted an offensive raid in the main Bazaar of Surab and abducted the five youth from a shop.

The abductees include two nephews of Mama Qadir (Abdul Qadir Baloch) who is currently the Vice-Chairman of Voice for Baloch Missing persons.

The victims have been named Muhammad Asif Reiki and Allah Din Reiki son of Shabbir Ahmed Reiki, Mohammad Irfan son of Mohammad Hakeem Reiki, Zulqarnain son of Haji Farid Reiki resident of Dumb Sorab. The identity of the fifth youth could not be ascertained at the time of filing this report.

Eyewitnesses reported that the Pakistani forces have beaten up the youth on spot, covered their heads, dragged them to their vehicles and took them away.

The whereabouts of all five youth remained unknown at the time of filing this news report. The relatives of the abducted Baloch youths have lodged an FIR with the local police regarding their enforced disappearance.

It may be recalled that Mama Qadir’s son Shaheed Jalil Reiki was forcibly disappeared by the Pakistani from Quetta Sariab Road on February 13, 2009. Mr Reiki’s dead body was found along with the dead body of Mohammad Younis Baloch in the November of 2011 Mand area of district Kech Balochistan.

The bodies of both men bore marks of gruesome torture and bullets wounded and it’s believed that they were torture in custody and executed in cold blood.