QUETTA, BALOCHISTAN: The protest camp maintained by Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP) outside Quetta Press Club continued into its 6,159th consecutive day Friday, as Revolutionary Communist Party leader Kareem Parhar visited the historic vigil alongside his party colleagues, expressing full solidarity with the families of enforced disappearance victims and demanding the immediate recovery of all missing persons.
Kareem Parhar’s arrival at the VBMP camp Friday was more than a courtesy call. Accompanied by fellow party members, the Revolutionary Communist Party leader walked into a space that has been held open by grief, determination and an unbreakable will for over 16 years and he chose to stand in it alongside the families who have refused to give up.
Parhar met personally with the families of missing persons gathered at the camp, listening to their accounts and expressing the Revolutionary Communist Party’s unconditional solidarity with their ongoing struggle for justice.
Speaking at the camp, Kareem Parhar did not mince words. He demanded the immediate and complete cessation of enforced disappearances across Balochistan and called for the safe recovery of all missing persons without further delay.
Among those he specifically named was Babul Malik Baloch, Central Vice Chairman of the Baloch Students Organization Pajjar (BSO-Pajjar), whose disappearance has drawn significant attention from student communities and political circles alike.
Parhar made clear that these demands are not political positions but fundamental human rights obligations that the state cannot continue to ignore.
Beyond expressing solidarity, Parhar used his visit to issue a direct and urgent appeal to political parties and student organizations across Pakistan, calling on them to stand firmly alongside VBMP in its constitutional and democratic struggle against enforced disappearances.
“This is not a struggle that can be fought alone,” he said, urging all democratic parties to unite behind the demand for justice and the safe return of missing persons to their families.
He emphasized that the issue of enforced disappearances transcends partisan divides and ideological differences, calling it a fundamental human rights crisis that demands a collective, unified and sustained national response from every political force in the country.
