Balochistan: Pakistani forces abducted the Baloch wheelbarrow boy

QUETTA: Pakistan forces have abducted a Baloch teenage boy from Balochistan’s coastal district Gwadar on Monday 17 June 2019 .

Ali Haidar Baloch – earned the title of ‘Wheelbarrow boy’ of Balochistan when he took part in the longest march for the safe release his father and other Baloch disappeared persons.

At the age of eleven (11), he along with his sister and other family members of abducted Baloch marched from Quetta to Karachi and then from Karachi to Islamabad.

His father Mohammad Ramzan Baloch was abducted in July 2010 from Uthal Zero point in presence of his son Ali Haidar.

Meanwhile, the abduction and disappearance of Ali Haidar Baloch has increased the anger among Baloch and other social media activists, journalists and Human Rights activists who demand his immediate release.

Currently, they are using #ReleaseAliHaidarBaloch on social media to urge the Pakistani authorities and international Human Rights organisation for the young boy’s safe release.

It is pertinent to mention that Pakistani forces have abducted more than 20,000 Baloch including women and children and many of them like Ali Haidar’s father have been missing for several years now.

Pakistani forces instead for releasing the previously abducted Baloch have been intimidating the family members of missing Baloch to end their struggle.

The family members of the disappeared Baloch have founded the ‘Voice for Baloch Missing Persons – VBMP’ a platform to raise voice for the release of their loved ones.

The chairman of Voice for Baloch Missing Persons Mr Nasruallh Baloch is the nephew of Ali Asghar Bangulzai – who was abducted in 2001 – and he’s still missing.