HRCP raises alarms over Balochistan unrest
By: Bari Baloch
QUETTA –Human Rights Commission of Pakistan Vice-Chairman Tahir Hussain has raised concerns over the Balochistan situation, saying: “Atomic bomb can’t save any country rather we should fight against poverty, backwardness and unemployment.”
“Peace is linked with democracy and peace is not only inevitable for our existence but also for the country,” he stated while addressing a seminar titled “Internal Peace and Activism of Democracy,” organised by the HRCP Balochistan chapter in Turbat the other day.
Tahir said that the dictators had caused colossal damages to the country. Whenever dictators ruled the country they promoted weapons and religious extremism for their personnel interests, he added. He said cruelty and lawlessness were prevailing across the Balochistan while the media, “particularly newspapers, belonging to Islamabad and Lahore hardly gave space to the issues of Balochistan”.
Expressing grave concern over the law and order situation of Balochistan, the HRCP vice-chairman said that on one hand, the youth were being whisked away and their decomposed bodies were being thrown away while on the other, kidnapping for ransom had become a lucrative business in the province.
“The streets of Quetta present a deserted look with sunset,” he added. He said the HRCP had been voicing against the recovery of bullet-riddled bodies of missing persons and urged immediate halt to “kill-and-dump” incidents.
Former vice chairperson of HRCP and president of Balochistan High Court Bar Association Zahoor Ahmed Shawani said the HRCP had prepared four reports about Balochistan which had been published but no progress was made on the part of government for correction of the situation in the recommendations of that reports. “If we go through the four-year term of government, we will not find any effort on the part of members of Balochistan Assembly to resolve the issues plaguing the province,” he added.
He said that after the destruction caused by backflow of water of Mirani Dam, a fact-finding team had been dispatched to the affected area which had collected data of 4,000 people. HRCP Mekran coordinator Ghani Parvaz said that for brining peace and end to the insurgency, the people concerned and institutions were dragging feet over the matter.
“Innocent Baloch youth are being abducted and their decomposed bodies are being sent near their homes while so-called democratic government is silent,” he alleged, adding that a secret agreement had been made between the government and forces that the latter would raise no voice over the incidents of “forced disappearances and throwing decomposed bodies of missing persons”. He said the 18th Amendment had not been implemented in the province and the resources were not handed over to the provincial government. HRCP programme manager Tanveer Ahmed said the country particularly Balochistan was passing through a grim situation as the elected representatives had failed to come up with the expectations of people.
Source: The Nation
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