Friday, June 19, 2009

Balochistan: BSO(A) leader returns home after months of illegal imprisonment by Pakistani intelligence agencies


Quetta: BSO azaad’s (Quetta) Shal zonal president Mr Shahzeb Baloch has been surfaced from Loralai town in Balochistan. his family went to pick from there and brought him back to his hometown in Panjgur. Shahzeb Baloch was abducted from Quetta on 26 March 2009 and was taken to an undisclosed location, which led to massive protests by the BSO (A) activists in Quetta city and elsewhere in Balochistan.

Explaining his abduction shahzeb Baloch was that he was abducted from Masjid road Quetta by the personal of intelligence agencies and taken to unknown location and has been released on by his capturers on 17 Jun 2009 in Loralia. He said has been physically tortured only on first day after that he was only mentally tortured by asking him strange questions repeatedly. He said that he was kept in a barrack, there were altogether five barracks in that place where has been held in last few months.

He said he has seen Chakar Qambarani Baloch, Fareed Baloch, Nazir Marri and a 19 year-old youth named Karam Marri was locked with him in barrack number four (4). He said that Karam Marri has been arrested 17 months ago and was now physically paralysed due to sever torture. He said on 6 May 2009 his capturers took him away saying that he will be released but I don’t whether he really has been released or has he been transferred to another place, because state agencies cannot be trusted. He said that he heard that other Baloch youth are being held there as well.

He said while in barrack his eyes were open but the rest of the time and during interrogation he was blindfolded, however he was always shackled and handcuffed even inside the barrack. He said that he would be taken to another place for interrogation; he would be blindfolded while being interrogated. He said that the interrogators were trying to link BSO (azaad) with Baloch Freedom Fighters because BSO (azaad) has been politically and morally supporting Baloch resistance movement forum at all forums. He said although he was blindfolded and could not see the interrogating officials but from their dialect they seemed Pathan (Peshawari) and Punjabis and they seemed pretty annoyed about the ongoing Baloch struggle for Freedom.

Shahzeb Baloch has been quoted as saying “My mother fell seriously ill after my abduction; I contacted my brothers as soon as I was released and they have come to take me my hometown Panjgur. I’m physically tired and having rest now. But soon I’ll be back to Quetta and continue my political activities”.

According to shahzeb Baloch he informed the capturers that his Law exams were due and if he missed the exams his whole year will be wasted but the capturers said “forget everything we have disappeared many Baloch and you will also suffer like them here”.

Shahzeb Baloch said that he has two brothers and two sisters and his father Dr Mustafa Kamal has been a professor at Bolan Medical College but he is retired now and lives in our ancestral town Panjgur. He said that due to his father’s profession and he has lived and studied in Quetta, he belongs to Samalani Baloch tribe. He said that none of his family members are involved in politics. He vowed that pretty soon he’ll back to Quetta and will start his political activities.

News source: Daily Tawar Balochistan

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