ISLAMABAD – I miss my father so much and I want him around but it has been ages since I saw him last, said little girl, Mehlab Baloch, with tearful eyes while narrating her ordeal as a kid of one of several missing persons from Balochistan. She was talking to Pakistan Today after a press conference on Wednesday held by the Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP), a sister organisation of International Voice for Baloch Missing Persons. The news conference had been arranged at the end of 10-day protest by the families of missing people in the capital.
8 years old Mehlab from Mashaki said that her father was a doctor by profession and one day he went to clinic but did not come back. Later the people told their family that security agencies had whisked him away. “I am here to request prime minister and chief justice to do something to bring my father back,” she said. The VBMP had shifted the hunger strike camp from Quetta to Islamabad 10 days ago in order to draw the attention of international media and chief justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan towards the worsening humanitarian situation in Balochistan.
As many as 15 relatives of missing people marched towards Islamabad by train where they held protests in outside the National Press Club, Supreme Court and Parliament.
Speaking at the press conference, chairman of VBMP, Nasurllah Baloch said that it was the second time that they had set up a protest camp to call attention to the plight of thousands of ‘suffering’ Balochis.Deploring about the law and order situation he said the abductions and sighting of mutilated bodies of those missing were becoming more frequent in Balochistan.
VBMP Vice Chairman Qadeer Baloch criticised the role of security agencies in the restive province. A number people related to missing persons were also present on the occasion and they shared harrowing stories of their suffering with the media.
