Quetta: Anjuman Itehad Marri, a Baloch pro-independent organisation has complied and released a graphic list of 1086 Baloch abducted political activists. The AIM is one of the first Baloch groups that have brought the issue of forced-disappeared Baloch activists to the media's attention. Since Pakistani dictator general Musharraf’s illegal military cope thousands of Baloch political, student and ordinary daily wages workers have been arrested for crimes that they did not commit.

In a news statement AIM has said that they been striving against forced-disappearances and other human right violations on different forums. They have contacted the families of abducted Baloch activist and enlisted the details of their disappeared loved ones. The list that Marri Itehad has complied contains the name, address, date and place of arrest of Baloch missing activists. In the light of the information from the relatives of disappeared Baloch, they held Pakistani government agencies responsible for abducting all Baloch who are currently missing.

They further said that Pakistani rulers have changed Balochistan into a hub of army garrisons and there is an underground net work of illegal prisons run by Pakistani intelligence agencies (ISI, MI and ATF), where thousands of innocent Baloch are facing inhuman and gruesome torture. They feared that many Baloch might have been killed in the underground cells and several have lost their physical and psychological abilities. They said according some estimates around 12,000 people have been abducted since Musharraf’s military cope. In the list of abducted person there are some names that have been missing for 10 years now and their families are not aware of the conditions and whereabouts of their dearest ones.

While rejecting the claims of Crisis management cell, Home of Balochistan and federal minister Rehman Malik they said that Baloch do not trust the government departments. They termed the registering of FIR of the missing person as an insult to the families of abducted Baloch and said this was opening another window of opportunity for the police get more bribe (collect illegal money for themselves). “Relatives of forced disappeared Baloch have submitted application in Pakistani courts but the courts have no power to take any action against the perpetrators”.

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