News : Voice for Baloch Missing Persons rejects the claims of Pakistani Judicial Commission

Occupied Balochistan: The Chairman of Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP), Nasrullah Baloch, has rejected the claims of Pakistani Judicial Commission which was set up a year ago to trace abducted persons. “The Judicial Investigation Commission was set up one year ago but during this period it did not visit Balochistan. They are only getting incentives in the name of abducted persons. The team headed by retired Justice Javid Iqbal is not a Judicial Commission in fact it is an inquiry committee; their work has been very disappointing.” Mr Nasrullah Baloch expressed these views during a press conference at the protest camp of the relatives of abducted Baloch outside Quetta Press Club. He was accompanied by Vice Chairman of VMBP, Mr Qadeer Baloch, and relatives of enforced-disappeared Baloch activists. Strongly criticising the government departments Nasrullah Baloch said that “ our Organisation has expressed dissatisfaction about this Judicial Commission one and half year ago when it was set up. Although the Commission headed by Justice Javid Iqbal has been named Judicial Commission but in reality it is just an inquiry committee. The commission has been busy dealing with Abattabad case in Islamabad and they did not visit Balochistan even once in this one and half year period. Now that the Supreme Court has heard few cases of abducted Baloch, the commission has suddenly remembered Balochistan and they came here [Balochistan]. Expressing his disappointment on the work of JIT he said the VBMP has decided not to appear before commission. No one has appeared before it. “ The JIT claimed to have recovered Abdul Zakir Bangulzai and eighteen (18) other Baloch. That is why it is important to make it clear that not even a single Baloch have been recovered by the Judicial Commission. It was the moral responsibility of retired Justice Javid Iqbal to resign from the JIT after such wrong claims.” “We don’t trust the investigation team and commission as it failed to give any result earlier. Relatives pinned all their hope on the Supreme Court now and they are dissatisfied with the hearings to some extent,” he said, adding that the government had formed two committees earlier, but the bodies had not been able to submit report pertaining to Baloch abducted persons. Another reason for not being satisfied he said was that the head of the investigation team is a secret agency official against whom the VBMP was fighting the case of abducted Baloch. Mr Baloch said all the evidence and witness statements presented to Supreme Court were against the government officials that is why the authorities has assured the Supreme Court to arrange a high level meeting on Balochistan which will find out about abducted persons and play its role to bring them to surface. “ They have been asked to submit their report on 11 June 2012 but we do not have faith on government officials and we have already made it clear to Supreme Court; neither do we cooperate with such controversial committees”, said Nasrullah Baloch. Answering to a Question the Chairman of VBMP said that one hundred and sixty (160) abducted Baloch cases have been registered in the Supreme Court. The police had presented the video footage of the abduction of Mohammad Khan and Abdul Nabi Marri being arrested by the FC personnel and the Supreme Court had ordered to recover them but instead they were killed and dumped – we have received their bullet-ridden bodies. “If the security agencies stop killing and dumping the abducted Baloch and take practical steps to free the abducted Baloch then we can bring the families, of those who have been whisked away Pakistani security agencies, to the Supreme Court. We have made it clear time and time again that we have no political motives, we only want our loved ones back safe. We will continue our peaceful campaign for the release of our loved ones. If there are any cases against our beloved ones then they must be brought before the court. We appeal to the chief justice of the Supreme Court to transfer the cases of all Baloch abducted persons to bench one and personally come to Balochistan to hear the cases”, said Nasrullah Baloch. Courtesy: DailyTawar & Balochwarna