Allah Nazar

Detained Baloch students in poor health.
LAHORE: The reports regarding the health and welfare of three members of the Baloch Students Organization (BSO), currently being detained in Quetta, are deeply
worrying.

HRCP has been informed that the three men, Dr Allah Nazar, Mr. Nadim Akhtar and Mr. Gohar Ali are in precarious mental and physical health. The condition of Dr
Allah Nazar is said to be especially grave. This is indeed hardly surprising given the long and apparently illegal detention of the men, and the physical and mental
torture inflicted on them during this period.

The three young men were among seven members of the BSO taken into custody in Karachi in March, 2005. Four of them who were released in May reported
torture, degrading treatment and detention in isolation for periods extending to a month. BSO leaders in Quetta have also stated that while these three men have
been produced before a court on August 13th and remanded in custody, other political activists including Ali Asghar Bungulzai, Jan Mohammad Marri, Gohram and
Saleh, picked up on various occasions this year, remain in unexplained and unauthorised detention.

It is also obvious that the illegal detentions and torture in custody are one part of a broader strategy of intimidation and harassment being pursued across the
country. During the first seven months of the year, political activists, journalists and other citizens expressing dissent have all been picked up and subjected to
similar intimidation. It also seems personnel of agencies and police are acting with growing impunity in carrying out such illegal acts.

HRCP demands all illegally detained people held in the country be produced before courts, and charged if they are guilty of any unlawful act. It also calls for civil
society groups to be given access to detained persons. The tactic of illegally arresting people can do nothing to dampen dissent, but will only add to the anger and
frustration growing in the country, adding to the already existing threat of further violence and mayhem.


Iqbal Haider
Secretary General
http://www.hrcp-web.org/press_detail.cfm?pressid=205
http://www.dawn.com/2005/08/16/nat25.htm

Baloch Society Of North America (BSO_NA)             Baloch Society Of North America (BSO_NA) is Non-Profit Organization, working to unite and Organize all Baloch in North        America, to expose the Occupation and  Oppressive policies of Pakistani and Iranian Governments  against Baloch                   people and our Baloch land (Balochistan), and to bring their Human Rights Violations in Balochistan into the world’s Notice.