Unknown armed men kidnapped a youth and injured another in Panjgur, Balochistan.
According to the details received by The Balochistan Post, unidentified armed persons attempted to kidnap two men in Chitkan, area of Panjgur district on Tuesday evening. Upon resistance, they shot and injured one of the victims.
The armed men then kidnapped Talal s/o Agha Tariq and Agha Asim s/o Zafar but decided to get rid of injured Talal later on, in Bonistan area of Panjgur.
It’s important to mention that Panjgur is an insurgency-affected area, where Pakistani security forces are on high alert. The incident raises questions on security measures in the city.
In Balochistan and parts of Pakistan, abduction of political activists and others has increased with each year.
In a similar incident, a professor has gone missing from Sindh on Tuesday after he was abducted by armed men.
According to details, Professor Essa Memon is a professor at Sindh University Larkana and an author of six books. He was politically affiliated with Sindh United Party.
Voice for Missing Persons of Sindh, a group campaigning to secure release of missing Sindhi activists claims that hundreds of people including many prominent Sindhi nationalist leaders and workers have been abducted by Law Enforcement Agencies from different areas of Sindh in the last few years. Many of those missing have later been found as dead bodies dumped on roadsides.
The term ‘missing persons’ is also widely used in Balochistan to connote arrests made by security forces as the arrested are not presented before a court of law but are instead kept in military camps.
According to Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP), a campaign group formed by families of victims, more than 20,000 Baloch men, women and children are under Pakistani custody.