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Geneva: Mehran Baluch, the Baloch representative to the United Nations Human Rights Council, has expressed his deep concerns over a recent report by Human Rights Watch.

In a statement Mr. Baluch said that "Human Rights Watch is considered an impartial organization across the globe, including Baluchistan, but after the publication of its report on Monday, doubts have been raised in the minds of the Baloch people whether some NGOs and organizations are helping Baloch enemies directly or indirectly and damaging the Baloch cause for freedom by publishing misleading reports."

"The report of an international independent human rights organization looks more like that of a Pakistani establishment report, designed to malign the Baloch struggle for freedom. The Pakistani establishment routinely issues such kinds of reports in Pakistani print and the electronic media on a regular basis," said Mehran Baluch.

"I fear that the organization has mistakenly issued the report that was made by Rehman Malik's office in Islamabad because the Baloch nation and the world have heard similar statements many times from Rahman Malik and the stooges of the Pakistani establishment," Mehran added.

In the report the organization has mentioned the victimized family members of Punjabis and interviewed them in various cities of Punjab, but unfortunately they could not also meet family members of the Baloch missing persons who are demonstrating in the streets of Balochistan and holding hunger strike camps in Karachi and different press clubs of Balochistan over the recovery of their loved ones who have been whisked away by Pakistani secret agencies. Nor did they acknowledge those Baloch women, children and elderly whom were gifted with more than 50 bullet-riddled bodies of their family members in just the last few months by the ISI and MI and seeking justice from the civilized world and human rights organizations.

Mehran Baluch said, "We expect high officials of Human Rights Watch to look into this matter in order to confirm that there is no foul play in the publishing of this biased report by the Islamabad bureau of Human Rights Watch."

Mehran Baluch is the Baloch representative in the United Nations Human Rights Council.