Balochistan’s largest student organisation (BSO-A) has rubbished claims of Justice Javed Iqbal, the chairamn of Missing Persons Commission, and has said that the whole episode is very concerning and could result into a human tragedy.
In a statement released on the International Day of Disappeared, BSO-A said that Chairman of so-called Missing Persons Commission is just promoting the narrative of state forces by negating the cases of thousands of Baloch Missing Persons.
Earlier, Justice Javed Iqbal, The head of the missing persons’ commission of Pakistan, had said that the number of Baloch Missing Persons is only a little more than one hundred. Mr. Iqbal also claimed that most of these persons have been disappeared due to personal enmities.
Negating Justice Iqbal’s claims, the Central Spokesperson of BSO-A said in the statement that the practice of enforced disappearance by Pakistani state forces is continued with severe intensity in entire Balochistan and the number of the enforced disappeared persons is increasing with each day.
BSO-A claimed that the number of the forcibly disappeared persons has crossed 40,000 in Balochistan. Youth, elder, children and women are among the missing persons and nearly five thousand missing persons have so far been killed during torture and their mutilated bodies were thrown in deserted areas in Balochistan.
BSO-A spokesperson added that the issue is turning to a very dangerous situation in Balochistan and the silence of the international institutions and human rights organization is further giving impetus to the barbarism of the state of Pakistan. “If the international institutions and human rights organization continue to be silent on the issue, a human tragedy would soon occur in Balochistan,” BSO-A said.
The spokesperson said that Pakistan has converted Balochistan into a no-go area through its barbarities and the practice of politics has completely been banned. “Leaders and activists of BSO-A, which believes in the peaceful and democratic means of struggle, and hundreds of other political activists have been killed after facing inhuman torture in the secret torture cells of state and their bodies were disfigured and thrown in deserted areas,” BSO-A accused.
BSO-A said all the peaceful, legal and democratic means on local and international level have been used to highlight the issue of disappeared persons but no concrete steps have been taken by the international and local authorities to resolve the issue.