AWARAN, BALOCHISTAN: The Baloch National Movement (BNM) held a program in Awaran Zone to mark the 17-year-long enforced disappearance of BNM leader and freedom prisoner Dr. Deen Mohammad Baloch, with speakers stating that they take pride in their affiliation with a party whose leadership has written a new history of struggle through unprecedented sacrifices of life and liberty.
The chief guest of the program was BNM’s Human Rights Secretary, Dr. Nazir Noor. In addition to him, the program was addressed by Chief Aslam, a member of BNM’s central committee, Talar Naz, Vice President of Awaran Zone, and Meerak, Treasurer of the Zone. Wadar Baloch, Secretary of the Shahmeer Manan unit, served as the stage secretary of the programme.
Speakers stated that Dr. Deen Jan’s 17-year-long and painful enforced disappearance, spanning approximately six thousand two hundred and five days, symbolizes a continuous form of collective punishment that has left deep and lasting impacts not only on his family but also on the entire party and the national movement. They described this prolonged period as a saga of oppression, uncertainty, and human tragedy, the wounds of which remain fresh today.
In his address, Dr. Nazir Noor explained enforced disappearance from a legal and human rights perspective, describing it as a severe form of state repression in which an individual is abducted beyond the protection of law, their existence and whereabouts are denied and they are completely deprived of legal recourse. He stated that such an act does not merely target a single individual but plunges their family, society, and the entire nation into mental, psychological, and social agony.
Dr. Nazir Noor also highlighted that a large number of political activists participating in the program were young people who have never personally seen Dr. Deen Jan, yet have made his thoughts, ideology, national commitment, and struggle their organizational mission. He said this fact serves as proof that while individuals can be temporarily hidden from sight, their ideologies, thoughts, and sacrifices will always remain a beacon of light for future generations.
