QUETTA, BALOCHISTAN: Baloch National Movement (BNM) Chairman’s Father and Uncle Among Four Released
According to the source, four Baloch men who rights groups say were forcibly disappeared by security forces, including the father and an uncle of Baloch National Movement (BNM) chairman Dr Naseem Baloch, have been released and have returned home.
Mohammad Bakhsh Baloch, the BNM chairman’s father, his uncle Naeem Sajidi and engineer Rafique Baloch were freed on Nov. 12 and reached their homes safely, the source said.
It’s not worthy that the army personnel raided several houses in Hub Chowki on Feb. 2 and took away all three, and that the BNM said Mohammad Bakhsh was a retired deputy commissioner and Rafique a former head of Sui Gas. The three had been missing for more than nine months. The BNM later raised their cases at an international event in Geneva, saying their whereabouts remained unknown, and the matter was also the subject of an early day motion in the British Parliament. iansliveianslive
In a separate case, Dr Malik Baloch and Noor Ahmed from Kharan were also released on Nov. 12, according to the source. Dr Malik was forcibly disappeared by security forces on Oct. 2, and has reached his home safely.
