BNP seeks UN intervention in Balochistan-The News
The Balochistan National Party (BNP) has called upon the United Nations (UN), Amnesty International and other international human rights organisations to intervene in Balochistan, saying intelligence and law-enforcement agencies are involved in illegal detention and extra-judicial killing of political activists in the province.
Addressing a press conference at Karachi Press Club on Wednesday, the BNP leaders condemned the killing of party’s Central Secretary General Habib Jalib Baloch and blamed intelligence agencies, the inspector general (IG) Frontier Constabulary (Balochistan), the capital city police officer Quetta, teh director general of Military Intelligence and corps commander Quetta for his “extra-judicial” murder. They demanded that the said officials should be nominated in Jalib’s murder case.
Jalib, 57, was a former senator and well-known lawyer who was was gunned down at a public place, acting Central Secretary General BNP Jahanzeb Baloch said. The BNP has announced 40 days of mourning and all major roads would remain inaccessible for the next three days, he said. The party has also called its central committee meeting on July 21 to deliberate on the situation, he added.
Jahanzeb said that the Baloch were being humiliated by the forces deployed in Balochistan since 1948, adding Jalib was trying to unite all factions of the Baloch movement to establish a grand Baloch alliance.
The slain BNP leader had been struggling for the cause of a greater Balochistan and protecting its land and resources, he said. Such struggle of Habib Jalib drew the wrath of the establishment that had been involved in the genocide of the Baloch community, he added. “Each and every Baloch has been struggling for the right to self-determination and extra-judiciary killings and illegal detentions cannot keep us away from our cause,” he declared.
Jahanzeb further said that Zahid Hussain Baloch, Naseer Lango, Dr Saleh Baloch, Saddam Hussain, Ali Dost Baloch, Sikander Baloch, Abdul Qadir Baloch, Rasool Bux Mengal and others were also killed by intelligence agencies.
On a question, he said that if the president of the country could seek help from the UN then they could also ask for help. He said that the Baloch should be given their right to self-determination so that they could decide their destiny.
“Unfortunately, the Pakistan forces believe that Balochistan is not a part of the country and that is why they have been subjecting the Baloch to humiliation,” he added.
Replying a query, former MNA Abdul Rauf Mengal said that the prime minister had announced on the floor of the house that all missing persons would be celebrating (last) Eid with their families at their homes, but the incidents of target killing have rather increased in Balochistan and there seems no writ of the government in the province.
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