The daughter of a missing person has claimed that her father, Munishi Nabi Bakhsh Baloch, had been whisked away by the Frontier Corps Balochistan from Kechh around four months ago and his whereabouts are still unknown.
Addressing a press conference on Friday at a hunger strike camp set up by the relatives of missing persons, she said her father, 80, was returning from his native village Turbat, on June 20 in a bus which was intercepted by the FC at a checkpost near Jusak.
She said FC personnel forced her father off the bus and into a two-door vehicle with tinted windows and without a registration number and whisked him away.
She alleged that almost 25 to 30 passengers were traveling in the bus, adding that they were all witness to her father’s abduction by the FC. She said having been informed by the passengers, her family lodged the case of her father’s enforced disappearance in Turbat Police Station and also submitted an application in the Supreme Court Balochistan Registry but to no avail. She said despite the passage of four months, the family members had no information about her father, adding that her father could not be involved in any illegal activity due to his old age. She said her family feared her father might have been killed. She said the Supreme Court had also not been much successful against what she called the powerful intelligence agencies in Pakistan.
She appealed to human right organisations, nations of the EU and other international organisations to put pressure on Pakistani secrete agencies and the authorities so that the aggrieved mothers, sisters and daughters could meet their fathers, brothers, and sons. Asked whether her father had contacted her family since his disappearance, she said nobody had ever contacted them.