Balochistan: Youth abducted from Picnic point killed in custody

QUETTA: Pakistani forces have reportedly abducted four both youth from a picnic point on Friday (28 Dec) in Buleda area of Balochistan’s Kech district and later brought the dead body of one to a local hospital.

According to details, Aurangzeb son of Gulab Baloch a resident of Koshk Buleda town in Kech district Balochistan left home on Friday evening along with his three friends for a picnic.

However, the following morning Saturday (29 Dec) Pakistani forces delivered Aurangzeb’s tortured and bullet-ridden body to a local hospital.

Pakistan Frontier Corps (FC), which carries out most offensives in Balochistan, alleged that Aurangzeb was killed during a gun battle with security forces.  But his family and hospital sources told Balochwarna News that there were severe torture marks on his dead body.

A distant relative of Aurangzeb on condition of anonymity said, ‘It seemed that he was tortured and strangled before being shot at. His dead body did have bullet wounds but there were a lot of torture marks on his body as well.’

The FC delivered Aurangzeb’s dead body and motorcycle to a local hospital where his relatives and locals identified him.

The family sources and locals have strongly rejected FC’s claims of an exchange of firing between Aurangzeb and FC because according to them all four youths at the time of leaving for the picnic were unarmed.

The other three youths whose identity could not be ascertained at the time of filing this report, are still missing.