Aamna Shahwani
Covert Wires
February 5, Quetta, Balochistan
This article was first published by “Afghanistan Times” at the following link and has been re-posted by Covert Wires.
Our acclaimed Punjabi novelist Mohammed Hanif would be very delighted to know that the Pakistani dumping technology has now been discovered and that he can be expected to use this information in his next novel. I have read his novel named “A Case of Exploding Mangoes” in which he depicts a scene where he is being handcuffed in a C-130 and imagines whether he will be thrown out of plane and recalls reading in Readers’ Digest that a communist nation was doing that, throwing handcuffed peeps into see and tries to find out how does the Pakistani intelligence agencies dump its rebel peoples.
Here is the solution Mr Hanif. This week mass graves were found in 3 places in Balochistan and as many as 171 bodies were dug out. The picture here is that of Qadir Baksh Baloch who was missing last year and was one of those documented in Voice of Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP) list. His body was found from a Khuzdar based grave. For the information of Mohammed Hanif, because as an Air Force officer he “might not” know the technologies used by the ISI but he can write a fully critical novel about it; for his information I would like to say that the great Pakistani Army, the largest professional Muslim Army of this planet, has taken the duty to abduct and dump the Baloch freedom fighters as if it was delivered in hotline to the first A from the second and third A’s. Yes, as if the Army of Pakistan was ordered to do so directly by Allah and America. Such a proficiency to kill the enemies has been never displayed by the Army in any war it fought. Against India, there biggest enemy ever, against whom they claim to have launched a war since last millennium they have lost all wars massively and against the Taliban they don’t have the spirit and conscience to fight since they are just the step-brothers of the Army without uniform. So this frustration is decomposed on the peaceful and unarmed campaigners of Baloch Freedom Movement, from Sangat Sana Shahwani Baloch to Qadir Baksh Baloch. The Baloch revolutionaries are abducted when the agencies like ISI, IB and MI feels the need to eliminate them. They are tortured in the interrogation chambers located in various places in Balochistan under the custody of state actors and political agents of Pakistan. For example the interrogation center at Sui, Dera Bugti is under the responsibility of the Baloch home minister Sarfraz Bugti. The abductees inside the chambers are attempted to defect into the ideology of Pakistan and in most of the cases they fail. The failure frustration makes the Pakistani agencies brutalize the Baloch activists. The level of brutality and signs of torture and mutilation performed on the bodies of the helpless abductees reflect the true portrait of the Pakistan’s ideology.
After brutalizing these Baloch activists the Pakistani agencies dump them guised in the darkness. Mass graves are used to dump the bodies. So far in the last week only three mass graves were found but the Baloch experts know it well that if all the mass graves can be discovered, it would number up to a few hundreds. A documentary was filmed on this dumping technology. The documentary named “In The Line of Freedom” portrays the timeline of a Baloch activist who was dumped by the Pakistanis due to a mistaken assumption of his death as a result of unbearable atrocity on him but he was alive and reaches his people. This true story was filmed by a western filmmaker and it was praised in the west and is used as a tool for the digital propagation of the Baloch movement. The VBMP is carried out a Long March from Quetta to Islamabad as a protest against the mass abduction and dumping and the VBMP Long March was supported by the Sindhudeshi freedom organizations like JSMM, JSQM, JSM (political) and armed organizations like Sindhudesh Liberation Army (SLA) and Sindhudesh Republican Army (SRA). The VBMP leader Mama Qadeer had documented 14,000 internally missing persons and sources said that by the next statistics, it would reach 20,000. Various Baloch experts view the number as 18,000+ till the date. Such a huge number of abductees is hard to maintain and so it is clear that they will correspond to similar number of mass graves and the people of Balochistan can only wait for the discovery of further mass graves, that is the fate of the people of Balochistan.
The decomposed body of Shaheed Qadir Baksh Baloch found in Khuzdar mass grave
So can we expect our Zia-critic novelist Mohammed Hanif to stop imagining and documenting the dumping technology of Pakistan? If you think the answer is YES, then wait a moment. The timeline of the story in his novel is 1988 and when he published that book was 2009, far after 1971 when 30 Lakh Bangladeshi people were dumped into death by not any single unique way, but various innovative ways were implemented for this purpose. From mass graves to massive wells used to dump and burn the Hindus, to mass dumping in the river banks and ponds, dumping in jungles to feeding the wild animals, all knowledge of permutations and combinations was implemented by the Pakistani strategists. And guess what, the entire world except Pakistanis don’t know it including intellectuals like Mohammed Hanif. So it can be expected that likewise the Bangladeshi genocide and dumping, the Baloch counterpart will also be similarly negated.
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