Balochistan: Ost announces to suspend activities after the fourth office barrier is abducted

QUETTA: The Balochistan based Ost Welfare Organisation has announced to suspend all its welfare activities after the abduction of four office barriers of the charitable trust.

 It is pertinent to remember that the Pakistani security agencies have abducted Ost’s chairman Mohammad Jan Dashti, General Secretary Abdul Qayyum Wafa Baloch, his brother Saeed Baloch and Mullah Liaqat Wali.

The Oost Welfare Organisation said in a statement on its social networking site Facebook said ‘hundreds of patients are being treated [with help of OST] in various hospitals in Karachi and in addition, the families of many new helpless patients are in touch with Ost Welfare Organisation to help support and assistance.’

In their brief statement that OST further said that Muhammad Jan Dashti and General Secretary Abdul Qayyum’s brother who had recently come to Karachi to trace Abdul Qayyum’s whereabouts have also gone missing.

As a result, ‘the Ost Welfare Organisation decides to suspend all its welfare activities with the medical team.’

 Baloch Social Media activists and Human Rights campaigners termed the abduction of welfare activists as a matter of concern and said that such behavior by the state institutions raises questions about the organisation that has been supporting helpless and poor patients for the last several years.

The Baloch activists are of the view that the issue of abduction of a charity trust shows the state has reached its peak of the psychological level of frustration and defeat that it is not even allowing social work in Balochistan.