Four Baloch men abducted from Sindh and Balochistan

QUETTA: Pakistani security forces and intelligence agencies have abducted at least four Baloch men from the Kech district in Balochistan and Sindh’s Khairpur district.

According to details, the Pakistani intelligence agencies and Sindh Rangers have raided a house in Mesali Goath area in Khairpur Sindh and abducted two brothers on Wednesday evening (04/08/2020).

The victims have been named as Kachi Khan Marri and Zamur Khan Marri, Baloch Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) who were forced to flee Balochistan due to continuous attacks by Pakistan military.

The Sindh Rangers has not informed the family of both brothers about their whereabouts and wellbeing.

It has been the modus operandi of the Pakistani intelligence agencies including ISI, MI, and the local authorities they once they abduct someone, they keep them incommunicado for several months without any legal representation.  

Previously, the Sindh Rangers and Punjab police have abducted disappeared several Baloch IDPs belonging to Marri and Bugti tribes of Balochistan.

It must be recalled that on the eve of Eid the Punjab police had shot dead five previously abducted Bugti Baloch in Arabi Dabba near Rajanpur in a staged encounter.

Pro-freedom Baloch political parties including the Free Balochistan Movement (FBM) and the Baloch Republican Party (BRP) strongly condemned the brutal extrajudicial murder of the five Bugti Baloch by Punjab Police.

The Baloch Republican Party has also held protests in the UK, Germany and Greece to condemn the Rajanpur incident and highlight ongoing Pakistani state brutalities against Baloch people.

On Wednesday, Baloch and Sindhi human rights activists held a protest in Karachi and strongly condemned the killing of five Bugti Baloch in Rajapur by Punjab police.

The protesters have demanded full independent inquiry of the incident.

In another similar incident in Balochistan, the Pakistani security forces whisked away two Baloch youths during an offensive in district Kech, Balochistan in the early hours of Tuesday morning on the 4th of August.

The abducted youths have been identified as Mukhtar son of Majeed and Abdul Wahab son of Mullah Abdul Hakim residents of Menaz region of Buleda, district Kech.

The incessant disappearances in Balochistan continue unabated and in recent days, several persons including Waqar son of Hashim was abducted from Pidarak area of Ketch, Abdul Qaddos from Dasht and Wajid son of Muhammad, Muhammad Ali son of Wajid, Elahi Bakhsh son of Talaho were arrested and disappeared from Kolwah Balochistan.