The mother of the missing Nasibullah Badini said that the son’s “enforced disappearance” has plunged his entire family into anguish. She said that if my son is involved in any kind of crime, he should be produced in a court and prosecuted per the constitution of the country.
Nasibullah Badini, a resident of Noshki, went missing in November 2014, allegedly at the hands of the Pakistani security forces. He has been missing ever since.
Badini’s elderly mother travelled all the way from Noshki to Quetta to raise the issue of the “enforced disappearance” of her son. Speaking at the protest camp of the Voice for Baloch Missing Persons, she said that I have come all this way in pursuit of justice for my son.
She said that my son Nasibullah had been “forcibly disappeared” from the Qaziabad area of district Nushki in 2014 from our shop. She said that Badini was a brilliant student, an obedient son and a taekwondo gold medalist at the national level. She appealed to the human rights groups to help her in finding her son.
She said an interminable chain of “enforced disappearances” has begun in Balochistan in the past two decades. She said that social workers and activists are abducted because they have a sense of the world. She said that thousands of such individuals are suffering in torture cells, and my son Nasibullah Badini is among them.
She said that we believe in law and justice – if my son is involved in any kind of crime, he should be produced before the court and prosecuted per the constitution of this country. If he is proven guilty, we won’t complain. But “forcibly disappearing” someone and keeping them away from their loved ones is a human rights violation – this is equivalent of deliberately undermining the constitution of the country, she said.
She asked the journalists present in the gathering to spread her message and make her voice heard. She then appealed to the United Nations, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and other prominent rights groups to take notice of Nasibullah Badini’s “enforced disappearance” and ensure his safe return.