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After my father’s abduction we...

What did your father do that led...

Families of missing Baluch march...

For two years, Mama was unable to...

After my father’s abduction we lost our everything in search of him

What did your father do that led to his arrest and disappearance by Pakistani forces? My father was political activist; he was talking about the rights of the people of Balochistan that is why he was forcibly abducted by security forces. Can you describe the state of your family the day your father was abducted and the days that followed up till now? When we heard about the forcibly disappearance of our father we felt like the sky has fallen on us my mother along with my rest of siblings became unconscious....

Mohammad Hanif on...

Asif Magsi: You have written extensively about the issue of missing persons in Balochistan, what made you write on this issue? Hanif: I haven’t...

The Baloch want...

US intelligence documents given by Edward Snowden revealed senior Pakistani military and intelligence officers resorting to extrajudicial killings of terrorism suspects, which included Baloch...

‘The Long March...

This being the situation for the Baloch, who were denied their independence when Pakistan in violation of all moral, political and international norms forcibly...

Historic long march...

A 756 km long march walking 29-30 km a day, with eight women and a 10 year old child Ali Haider Baloch, whose father...

Government pressurised me...

“Our travel was long and full of hardships but we had strong will, therefore we marched with passion and commitment. Peoples’ response in...

The Long March...

Balochistan has been facing the worst kind of state sponsored terrorism since 2001 when the military started arresting the activists and political workers and...

Long March of...

The continued recovery of bullet-riddled bodies of Baloch disappeared persons, and Chief Minister’s confession of failure disclose that neither establishment is interested in the...

Baluchistan’s running sore

Indeed, ‘missing persons’ is a misnomer- a more pertinent term would be ‘enforced disappearances to sow seeds of terror in a recalcitrant populace.’ The...

The barbarity of...

The three-year-old Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances (CIED) has not solved the missing persons’ problem. The SC recently expressed disappointment over its working,...