Asian Human Rights Commission, Hong Kong: We wish to share with you the following statement from Defence of Human Rights Pakistan.
“We are very concerned that such incidents are not abating in Pakistan,” Mr. Colville said. “We call on all responsible parties to immediately stop such violations of human rights, and we urge the Government to take immediate steps to independently investigate these cases.”
“We are very concerned that such incidents are not abating in Pakistan,” Mr. Colville said. “We call on all responsible parties to immediately stop such violations of human rights, and we urge the Government to take immediate steps to independently investigate these cases.”
The body of a Baloch student activist was found on 16 July, five months after he was taken into custody by the paramilitary Frontier Corps. Ten other Baloch men, detained at the same time, are in grave danger of the same fate.
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Following is the story of teenage Nasir Dagarzai Baloch who was first abducted on January 23rd, 2011, along with other colleagues Rasool Baksh, Abid Saleem and Mehrab Baloch. On January 27, four days later, they were shot and dumped in Panjgoor area. Nasir Baloch miraculously survived despite being critically injured and dumped.
Balochistan has a history of secularism and we have not adopted this terminology because of its popularity in today’s political forum, rather for centuries we the Baloch have coexisted with Christians, Hindus and other none Muslims.
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Spydevold said she had faced a brick-wall for one and half years now as she pursued the Pakistani authorities to release her client.
With Afghanistan to the west and Iran to the southwest, Baluchistan is scarred by its own long-simmering war - of mutilated corpses, bombed pipelines, and missing lawyers and academics.