Mehlab Deen Baloch, daughter of missing Dr Deen Mohammad Baloch, has expressed hope that all missing persons will be recovered in the year 2021.
Mehlab, while attending the protest camp of Voice For Baloch Missing Persons, said: “our last 12 years have been miserable and we have been waiting for our father at every moment, but I hope that this year all the victim families will get the good news of their loved ones being safely released from Pakistani torture cells,” she added.
Mehlab’s father, Dr. Deen Mohammad, went missing on June 28, 2009 from the Khuzdar district of Balochistan. According to his family, he was abducted by Pakistani forces and intelligence personnel.
She said that From 2009 to 2020, we have been protesting for the safe recovery of our father and so far no one has been able to trace my father. “People were celebrating the New Year together on the first day of 2021, but we, the families of the Baloch missing persons, spent the first day of the new year in front of press clubs,” she said.
“My father is a medical doctor by profession, and was performing his duties at Ornach Hospital. If my father has violated any laws or has a case against him, then he should be produced in court,” Mehlab said.
“After my father’s abduction, our house has become a hell and my grandmother waited for him till her last breath. Her last words were the name of my father when she she passed away on September 24, 2013,” she said.
“I call on all human rights organizations and the United Nations (UN) to play their role and put pressure on the Pakistani government to help us bring our father back,” Mehlab Deen said. “Instead of celebrating Eid, New Years and other celebrations, we have been counting the days, weeks and years since the abduction of my father,.”
Speaking to the protesters Mehlab further said that that no one can understand how deep our pain is, our whole life has been ruined and the whole family has become mentally ill.
“My sister Sammi and I had no idea that people disappear, but one day my father was disappeared,” Mehlab said.
She said that her father, Dr Deen Mohammad was abducted by Pakistani state forces. “To this date I am unable to comprehend why my father was taken away from us unless they needed a doctor in their military camps?” she questioned.