Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP) Chairman Nasurallah Baloch has said that he had been receiving life threats from spy agencies and he had written to the Supreme Court of Pakistan, international human rights organizations and the United Nations Working Group on Enforced Disappearance to tell them that the country’s agencies were to be held responsible if anything bad happened to him. Addressing a news conference at the VBMP’s token hunger strike camp on Tuesday, Baloch said Tehreek Nefaz Aman (TNA), a shadowy group, had threatened him and other members of the VBMP despite the fact that VBMP was not a political front but an organization peacefully striving for the recovery of missing persons.
He alleged that TNA was the brain child of secret agencies that were threatening VBMP members to force them to give up their peaceful and democratic protest. Baloch said TNA had already claimed responsibility for throwing several bullet-riddled and tortured bodies of Baloch political activists, adding that the same elements were now threatening women of dire consequences if they continued with the hunger strike camp.
He said Baloch women came from far-flung areas of the province just to record their statements so that their loved ones could be recovered, but now they were being harassed by secret agencies. The VBMP chairman said several people had been killed and their tortured bodies dumped in isolated areas for daring to get FIRs registered for their missing relatives.
