HR bodies urged to play role for recovery of
Baloch "missing persons".


By: Bari Baloch

September 05, 2011

 QUETTA - Sister of Zakir Majeed Baloch, a missing leader of BSO-Azad has demanded of the human rights organisations to play their role for the early recovery of
disappeared Baloch persons including her brother.

“All Baloch missing persons including my brother should be treated under Geneva Convention and they should be recovered,” she demanded this while
addressing a press conference at Quetta Press Club on Sunday.

She said Zakir Majeed was a student and senior vice chairman of Baloch Students Organisation (Azad) who had been whisked away by secret agencies on June
8, 2009 from Mastung.

“We have no information about his whereabouts since he went missing,” she said adding, her family was passing through mental torture and worried about his
life.

She said that her brother had never been involved in any unlawful activity and urged that if he had committed any crime, he should be produced before a court of
law so that he could prove his innocence instead of keeping him in torture cells.“We have adopted all democratic means to register our protest including holding
rallies and observing hunger strikes but all in vain,” she added.

Referring to the commission formed to find out missing persons, she said that they had lost trust in commissions since these were aimed at prolonging the
issue. She said more than 200 decomposed bodies of Baloch missing persons had been recovered and if hectic efforts were not made for rest of the missing
persons’ recovery they would also be killed.

She appealed Amnesty International and other humanitarian organisations for taking notice of the killing of Baloch missing persons and dumping their tortured
bodies at different localities.

Responding to a question, she said had humanitarian organisations exerted pressure on Pakistani government against violation of human rights, lives of 200
missing persons whose bullet-riddled bodies were found, could be saved.

SOURCE: http://nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Politics/05-Sep-2011/HR-bodies-urged-to-play-role-for-recovery-of-missing-
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Hunger strike by kin of missing persons continues

 Nov. 13, 2011

 QUETTA: The kin of missing persons from Balochistan are continuing their hunger strike in front of Quetta’s press club.

The families of missing Zakir Majeed Baloch, Jalil Reiki Baloch, Sangat Sana Baloch, Dr. Deen Muhammad Baloch, Ali Asghar Bangalzai
Baloch, Ghafoor Baloch, Mushtaq Radini Baloch, Samih Mengal Baloch, and Hafiz Saeed-ur-Rehman Baloch, have been on hunger strike
since 581 days, while hunger strike by families of Shams Baloch, Saifullah Ababbaki, Waleed Afzal Baloch, etc have reached its 439th day.

Meanwhile party activists of BSO (Azad) expressed solidarity with families on hunger strike, and strongly protested discriminations carried
out against the missing persons.

The also launched a strong appeal to amnesty international, UN, and other international human rights organizations for ameliorating the
plight of kin of missing persons.  SOURCE:  >> http://www.onlinenews.com.pk/details.php?id=185787