Bullet-ridden bodies found in Karachi have been identified as Baloch Missing Persons.

Karachi: Two mutilated bodies that were discovered in Mangho Peer area of Karachi on 19 May have been identified as that of Hanif and Nawaz Marri Baloch on Tuesday.

The victims were residents of Hub town of Balochistan and were reportedly abducted few months ago. However, the exact date of their abduction could not be ascertained immediately.

The bodies were kept at the Edhi morgue for identification since their recovery.

It is pertinent to mention that three more bullet-ridden bodies were found on the same day. Naseer Ahamd Baloch was discovered in Khuzdar and  Shahzeb Baloch his brother Shahnoor Baloch bodies were found from Murgaap, Turbat.  Naseer was reportedly an activist of Baloch Republican Party and a resident of Zindapeer area of Balochistan.

Bullet-ridden bodies found in Karachi have been identified as Baloch residents of Hub.

Karachi:Two mutilated bodies that were discovered in Mangho Peer area of Karachi on 19 May have been identified as that of Hanif and Nawaz Marri Baloch on Tuesday. 

The victims were residents of Hub town of Balochistan and were reportedly abducted few months ago. However, the exact date of their abduction could not be ascertained immediately. 

The bodies were kept at the Edhi morgue for identification since their recovery.

It is pertinent to mention that the bullet-ridden body of Naseer Ahamd Baloch was discovered in Khuzdar, Balochistan on same. Naseer was reportedly an activist of Baloch Republican Party and a resident of Zindapeer area of Balochistan. 

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Bodies of two previously abducted Baloch discovered in Turbat

Mutilated and bullet ridden dead bodies of 

two Baloch brothers were found in Murgaab area of Balochistan on Sunday morning. 

The victims’ identity has been ascertained as Shahzaib and Shahnoor Baloch. Hospital sources said that the men were subjected to inhuman torture and then electrocuted to death. 

Sources reported that both brothers were residents of Khodabadan area of Panjgur, Balochistan. They were abducted on 11 May 2013 during an operation by Pakistani military on the request of pro-Pakistani Baloch nationalist parties. 

“The new government has not yet taken control of the affairs; the bodies of Baloch youth have already started surfacing which is an indication that the new government will not be able to restrain the infamous ISI and the military,” Said Baloch human rights activists Dr Mostafa Baloch. 

It is pertinent to mention that Pakistani military and F.C has abducted more than 200 Baloch during offensives a week before the national elections of Pakistan. 

Six Baloch abducted and a woman seriously injured during New Kahan operation

 Quetta:

The Pakistani forces have raided New Kahan in the early hours of Wednesday and abducted at least 6 Baloch from New Kahan in a Wednesday morning.

New Kahan, which has earned the name of Ghaza Strip Balochistan because of continuous raids, saw the wrath of Pakistani forces once again when 20 vehicles entered the area and started a house-to-house search.

The brutal search operation continued for 3 hours. Women and children were maltreated, which resulted in serious head injuries to a woman who is in critical condition. The forces also looted valuables of the residents during the operation.

The forces, which included personnel of notorious intelligence agencies and regular army aided with paramilitary, abducted six Baloch and took them to unspecified location. The abducted include Raaz Mohammad Marri, Lal Mohammad s/o Yaar Mohammad Marri, Shaden s/o Shadmaan Marri, Shadi Gul s/o Shadmaan Marri, Wali Khan s/o Murad Khan and Ghani Khan s/o Murad Khan.

Ghani Khan s/o Murad Khan is a special child who is mentally challenged and cannot speak and understand anything but the forces did not even spare him.

The locals of New Kahan said that all the abducted Baloch are labourers who work in the nearby vegetable Market.

The state brutalities against people of New Kahan stated soon after the Pakistani dictator came into power though a military coupe. Several residents of New Kahan are have already been abducted by the forces and their whereabouts and fate is still unknown.

It must be remembered that Pakistani forces have intensified their brutalities on Baloch as the elections are approaching. The raid on New Kahan is the continuity of same military raids.

A Daughter’s Struggle for Her Father’s Safe Recovery.

By Yousaf Ajab Baloch

 Restlessness, worries and agony of a little girl become beyond measure when she loses her doll or another thing that she loves to spend time with, playing and amusing herself. But one fails to translate the sentiments of a little girl who has lost her father at an age when she should be playing and studying. Instead, she finds herself striving to get him recovered. Mahlab Baloch is the daughter who finds herself amid a seemingly unending struggle for her father.

Mahlab, 9, is the daughter of Din Muhammad, a medical doctor by profession. Muhammad was allegedly picked up by the personnel of Pakistani security forces on June 28, 2009 in Ornach, a tehsil in Khuzdar district, while performing his duties in a local hospital. Since the abduction of Muhammad, his daughter has been toiling for his safe recovery from the platform of Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP), an organization that relatives of Baloch missing persons have formed to compile the data of disappeared Baloch doctors, lawyers, journalists, human rights defenders and political activists and to protest for their recovery.

Recently, Mahlab held a news conference at a hunger-strike camp set up by VBMP. She shared updates of her struggle for the release of her father. She said that no measures had been taken to recover Dr. Din Muhammad though statements have been recorded before the Supreme Court of Pakistan, Balochistan High Court and Judicial Commission and Investigation Committee. She appealed to humanitarian organizations to intervene into the matter and perform their expected role for the release of her father.

Nine years old Mahlab is a student of fourth class but since she started the struggle for the recovery of her father, she quit her studies. She has been to protests and hunger strikes inKarachi,Islamabadand in several districts of Balochistan with other relatives of Baloch missing persons.

At an age when she is supposed to be at home busy with her dolls and books, she is on roads, in biting cold or scorching heat, for the retrieval of disappeared Balochs. She has not been home for a long time. Not only the life of Mahlab Baloch has totally become disturbed but also her whole family is suffering from anguish when they hear of mutilated bodies of abducted Baloch being found on daily bases in different parts of Balochistan.

In a recent interview with a Balochi English Magazine Bolan Voice, Mahlab said that she has a brother and a sister. Her brother is a student of 10th class. In the morning, she said, he goes to study and then labors second time to earn for their family’s sustenance. Her elder sister is in 6th class. In the interview she disclosed that she had suspended her educational career, but she said she would continue striving and protesting. She would not go back until the release of her father.

Family members of missing persons are in pain because of the continued recovery of tortured and bullet-riddled bodies of their loved ones. Many of the relatives of the missing Balochs had to leave the hunger-strike camp when the bodies of their loved ones were found in deserted areas in different parts of Balochistan. Unfortunately, efforts of Voice for Baloch Missing Persons have not yielded any remarkable success. Missing persons, rather than being recovered safely, have surfaced as dead.

Gradually, Baloch movement is gaining strength. There was a time when 79-year-old Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, Nawab Nauroz Khan and other old-aged Baloch were part of the movement. But, now we can see youth, particularly Baloch women and children, are playing an important part. The contributions of Banuk Karima Baloch of Baloch Students Organization-Azad, Shakar Bibi of Baloch Women Panel and the daughter of Wahid Qambar have been remarkable.

The role of Mahlab Baloch has encouraged Baloch women and children to join the movement and play their due role to pressurize the judiciary and other elements involved to surface the whisked-away Balochs. They have also been able to get the attention of international media, human rights organizations and the international community.

There are thousands of Mahlab Balochs who await their fathers and brothers, but they have been threatened to become silent. For them the stable struggle of Mahlab is a good source of encouragement to amplify the voice of affected families and that of Voice for Baloch Missing Persons. Most of the families, whether are scared or waiting for a miracle to happen, are still looking an extraordinary move.

Yousaf Ajab Baloch is a frequent contributor to The Baloch Hal. To read his other write-ups on The Baloch Hal, click here.

Why do the Baloch Reject the 2013 Election? Dr Allah Nizar Baloch .

    Kech :Colonial powers such as Pakistan make laws to justify their occupation, and to exploit the resources of the colonized by hiding behind the obscuring veil of the state and elections.

The Indian National Congress took part in elections under an electoral framework formulated by the British Empire. According to Abdul Kalam Azad, the President of the Congress, all Congress ministers would work under the influence of British governors, and would adopt policies dictated by those governors, as a result of these elections. Is it not true that wherever colonials formulate laws, they aim to legitimize their exploitation and plunder under the shadow of those very laws?

The same thing has been happening in our Baloch land since 1948. The whole nation has been taken hostage, in exchange for a small share of state power for a small group of individuals (and that, too not at the state’s highest levels) . In order to protect and sustain this small privileged group, elections will be held in occupied Balochistan–with the help of extensive force.

In March 1948, Pakistan violated international laws governing political boundaries, and invaded the Baloch land by military force. From day one and up to 1973, the Pakistani assembly passed many laws to thwart the Baloch land’s political status, and annex it to Western Pakistan-cum-Punjab. Similarly, those laws and legislative institutions became the basis for the execution of the Baloch people. Everyone, from Babu Nowroz to Hamid Baloch, was a victim of these same assemblies and of their drafted laws. On the basis of such laws and assemblies, non-Balochi languages were imposed on the Baloch, their cultural values were distorted, and extensive efforts were made to cause the Baloch to be attracted to the unnatural country of Pakistan–a trend that continues today.

All these legislative insinuations and their formulated laws have been used as a bare sword by Pakistani terrorists to shower themselves with the blood of the Baloch people. The Pakistani army’s genocidal war crimes are being justified on the basis of such laws.

The Baloch national struggle, which aims to regain our national freedom, complies with international laws. It respects all human values, and uses all possible means through which it can counter the brutal army of Pakistan and its death squads. Besides, the Baloch nation, through peaceful means, tries to make the world understand that the Baloch is fighting for the attainment of a free and independent state, while fully respecting globally recognized human rights and values.

The Baloch is struggling for a secular and justice-based state, which would be a buffer state against extremism, terrorism and racism. Indeed, not only the region, but also the entire world would benefit from a free Balochistan. Achieving freedom, the Baloch nation will use its resources for its own welfare, while standing shoulder to shoulder with all peace-loving nations to work for the elimination from the human society of all types of weapons of mass destruction.

The Pakistan media and the pro-Pakistani Baloch groups propagate that opposing Pakistani laws and assemblies are a kind of enmity with democratic values. The so-called democratic groups should understand why Baloch freedom fighters oppose these so called elections:

1- By appointing just a few persons, the Pakistan intelligence agencies try to convince the world public opinion that the Baloch recognize Pakistani institutions, and that, the occupation of Balochistan has taken place in accordance with the will of the Baloch people. They also want to convey to the international community, particularly the UN, that the occupation of Balochistan is a legitimate act.

2- The colonial assemblies, so far, have only passed laws through which the Pakistani establishment can enhance its grip over the occupied territory, such as annexing Jacob Abad (Khan Garh), Rajanpur, DG Khan to Punjab and Sind, depriving the Baloch from their mother tongue, and distorting their culture. Under the colonial laws the natural resources of Balochistan have been given to the army and secret services, to be used for depriving the Baloch people from their right for freedom (as Raeesani and Magsi governments have given the Baloch resources to the army, FC and Rangers and have committed genocide against the Baloch people). Similarly, the coming assembly would remain loyal to the federal government, and would pass the same laws, which it has been passing from 1948 up to now.

3- The main aim of these elections is to create a privileged class, which would be operate as a fifth column against freedom activists. We have seen members of previous assemblies admitting on assembly floors that they had authorized the FC and the Army to conduct military operations in Balochistan. Killing and dumping thousands of Baloch people is the only achievement that these assembly members can speak of.

4- These elections aim at passing laws against the Baloch freedom struggle, at devising legal ways to exploit the national resources of Balochistan to occupiers, and convincing the world public opinion that the Baloch themselves are signing such agreements through assemblies. In this regard, the Saindak project, the Reco-diq project, Gawader port, Sui Gas field all are clear examples. This assembly, in the name of democracy, would pass such laws through which it would legalize the exploitation of the resources of our Baloch land.

5- The occupier state would introduce these puppet assembly members as representative of the Baloch nation to the world, and would try to legalize the occupation of the Baloch land.

Therefore, based on the above points, the freedom-loving nation of the Baloch has realized that it will not be a part of Pakistani institutions, and conveys this message to the world: These institutions are not representing the Baloch nation. At present, the entire Baloch nation has rejected the Pakistani parliament-loving-people, and they are facing severe rejections in almost 95 per cent of Balochistan’s regions. The faithful and neutral media, civilized and human-loving nations, and the international institution including the UN, need to include the Baloch national struggle in their agendas, and declare Balochistan a conflict zone.