Former Secretary General of the Baloch National Movement, Rahim Baloch Advocate, has marked the one-year enforced disappearance of senior Baloch political figures Ustad Wahid Bakhsh Baloch (Ustad Wahid Kambar) and Mehmood Ali Langov.
In a statement to the media, Rahim Advocate said that Wahid Bakhsh was abducted on July 19, 2024, in Kerman, Iran, while Mehmood Langov was taken on June 18, 2024, from Nimruz, Afghanistan. According to him, both were allegedly detained by Pakistani intelligence and have been missing since.
He criticized the Pakistani state for failing to present the missing leaders in court or disclose their whereabouts, calling the silence surrounding their detention a violation of both legal and humanitarian norms. “The families and the Baloch people have been left in the dark, we don’t know where they are being held or what their condition is,” he said.
Rahim Baloch Advocate warned that enforced disappearances, military operations and extrajudicial killings would not suppress the Baloch national movement. “If the state believes it can defeat a political struggle with force, it is mistaken. These actions only expose its political and moral bankruptcy.
He emphasized that Ustad Wahid Bakhsh’s six-decade-long political journey has left a lasting intellectual legacy. “No prison or bullet can erase the consciousness and sense of identity he instilled in the Baloch nation.”
Rahim Baloch also recalled the sacrifices of other prominent Baloch leaders like Nawab Akbar Bugti, Ghulam Mohammad Baloch, Dr. Mannan Baloch and Karima Baloch, as well as the Disappeared youth leaders like Zahid Kurd, Zakir Majeed and Shabbir Baloch. He said their deaths and disappearances have not weakened the Baloch movement, nor have they slowed its momentum.
