Two unknown dead bodies were found in the provincial capital Quetta and district Khuzdar on Tuesday, the sources have confirmed. The bodies have been moved to civil hospitals in both cities to determine their identity.
The dead body in Quetta was found near the Stand area and moved to the Quetta civil hospital for autopsy and further investigation. Whereas the unidentified dead body in Khuzdar was found near the Koh-i-Halwai area. The police have said that the body appears to be several months old, and it has been moved to Khuzdar civil hospital for further investigation.
Finding dead bodies in random locations in Balochistan is not a new occurrence – it has been going on for decades. Analysts and human rights activists say that the Pakistani security forces are behind all these killings. They argue that the security forces forcefully abduct people on arbitrary excuses, keep them in confinement and torture them for years, kill them and then throw their dead bodies in random locations. In many cases, the bodies remain hidden for months or even years, and they are unrecognizable when they are found. This strategy of mass murder has a name: the “kill-and-dump policy.”
On the first day of Eid, two dead bodies were found in Panjgoor. One of them was identified as Mujahid, who had been killed and his dead body wrapped in a plastic bag. The second body was found hanging from a date tree in a garden.
In Quetta, an unidentified dead body was found in a cemetery in the Satellite Town. Another dead body was discovered in district Kech and later identified as Altaf s/o Mola Baksh.