QUETTA – Chairman of the Ansar Burney Trust International and former federal minister for human rights, Ansar Burney has said that hundreds of Punjabi-speaking families, Muslims from Shia sect and Hindu families in Balochistan province were planning to migrate to safer areas fearing persecution. He said these people are fearful of extremists and fundamentalists who kidnap minority people for ransom or in some cases just brutally murder them. He was talking to journalists here on Monday.
“They can’t go out to their jobs or business or their children to schools and living such a life is worse than serving a jail term,” Burney added. During his stay in Balochistan, Ansar Burney who is also the United Nations advisor on human rights visited several Baloch dominated districts including and territories inhabited by Marri and Bugti tribes where Punjabi-speaking, Shias and Hindus had been living for centuries but after the kidnapping of Maharaj Lakhim Chand Garji, 85, by extremists from Kali Mata Mandir in Qalat on December 21, all feared persecution.
