28th October marked a complete year of Nawaz Atta’s disappearance
According to the details received by the Balochistan Post, Baloch Human Rights Organization(BHRO) held a press conference yesterday in Quetta on the completion of one year since their Central Information Secretary, Nawaz Atta, has gone missing.
During the press conference, leaders of BHRO put forward the case of Nawaz Atta and also criticized media and international human rights organizations on their criminal silence against the human rights violations in Balochistan.
“On 28 October 2017, Nawaz Atta was abducted from his house in Gulshan-i-Iqbal area of Karachi along with a dozen other people, most of whom were youngsters and children. A year has passed but whereabouts of Nawaz are still not known”, they said in the press conference.
“Nawaz was a student and was working for human rights on the platform of our organization working as its central information secretary. Abducting a rights activist and not producing him before the court of law after everything is a serious violation of International laws for human rights by the hands of the state”, they added.
They appealed to the media to highlight the plight of missing persons and understand their responsibilities in order to unveil the culprits.
They also asked civil society, national and international bodies for the human rights to become their voice in highlighting the violations in Balochistan.