LONDON: International Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (IVBMP) in a statement to the media has strongly condemned the killing of Mr Raziq Mandai, a Baloch political refugee, in Afghanistan. IVBMP said, ‘we are aware of his case, he fled Balochistan to save his life. He was facing life threats because of his political struggle against Pakistani oppression in Balochistan’.’He was also registered with the UN Refugee Agency in Afghanistan because he wanted the UN to transfer him to a third country so that the Pakistani intelligence agencies and their proxies would not be able to easily harm him. His life, like other Baloch refugees, was not safe in Afghanistan from Pakistani intelligence agencies.IVBMP said, ‘we reject the lies of Pakistan Army sponsored journalists, social media figures and media outlets, who have falsely claimed that Raziq was a senior commander of an armed group. In fact, He was a refugee who went to Afghanistan because he could not flee to a third and safer country from Balochistan.To further expose the lies of Pakistani sources, the IVBMP said that they have misspelled his surname as “Mandali” which shows that instead of finding the truth and independent reporting, Pakistani media and journalists publishes the fabricated propagandas of the Pakistani intelligence agencies. ‘Therefore we consider most of the Pakistani media outlets and biased journalists as the mouthpiece of Pakistan Army and intelligence agencies.’‘According to our information, Mr Raziq was murdered in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul by hired guns of Pakistani intelligence agencies. After committing this crime the Pakistani intelligence agencies ran fake news in their media outlets’ asserted IVBMP. IVBMP said that at the time of issuing this statement on 22 January 2022, the whereabouts of his dead body are still unknown and volunteers in Afghanistan are still trying to locate his dead body.IVBMP further maintained, ‘if people who knew Raziq Mandai and were unaware that he has been murdered until they saw the news and pictures of his dead body in Pakistani media, then it only requires common sense to understand that the real perpetrators are Pakistani intelligence agencies. Pakistani state agencies have committed a crime and murdered a Baloch political refugee on Afghan soil’.International Voice for Baloch Missing Persons urged the UN Refugee Agency and international humanitarian organisations to take immediate and practical steps for the protection of Baloch refugees in Afghanistan and transfer them to a safe third country. IVBMP said that it is the responsibility of international humanitarian organisations to save Baloch refugees in Afghanistan and expose Pakistan’s systemic killing of Baloch refugees outside Balochistan.
