A previously ‘missing person’ reached home after three years in Dera Bugti
According to the Balochistan Post correspondent, Sher Dil Bugti, who was allegedly abducted by the Pakistani forces, reached home after remaining three years in incommunicado detention.
The term ‘abducted’ is widely used in Balochistan to connote arrests made by security forces as the arrested are not presented before court of law and instead kept in military camps.
Sher Dil Bugti, an elderly man, had remained missing like thousands other in Balochistan.
Recently, Sardar Akhtar Mengal, the head of his faction of Balochistan National Party, submitted a list of 5128 people in Pakistan’s National assembly, who are missing in Balochistan and have been allegedly abducted by the Pakistan’s security forces.
Enforced disappearances that started in the early 2000s have never slowed down in Balochistan, in fact, dramatic surge has been observed in the number of people going missing with each coming year.
International campaign groups including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International accuse Pakistani security forces as the culprits of these illegal abductions.