Families allege ‘fake encounter’ after three missing men found dead in Balochistan

A caller question of suspected fake encounters successful Balochistan has led to nationalist anger, arsenic rights activists impeach information forces of sidesplitting radical successful custody and staging the events to look similar clashes.Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) connected Monday claimed it had killed 3 militants successful an cognition successful the Tang Kiryar country of Barkhan district. The bodies of Abdul Rehman Buzdar, Fareed Buzdar, and Sultan Marri were aboriginal shifted to the Basic Health Unit infirmary successful Rakni.However, the families of the deceased and Baloch rights groups powerfully disputed the authoritative account. They said each 3 had been missing for months, victims of enforced disappearance, and insisted the brushwood was fake. The activists alleged that "the men were executed aft being kept successful amerciable detention.” A CTD spokesperson said that the men died during an speech of occurrence and that weapons were recovered from the scene. But this mentation of events has been wide rejected.In a abstracted incident, different youth, Ghaus Bakhsh, was recovered dormant successful Awaran district’s Kolwah tehsil. He had reportedly been summoned to a adjacent subject camp, and his assemblage was discovered conscionable hours later, bearing disposable signs of torture.

This added to increasing suspicions of custodial killings.The Balochistan Post reported some incidents, saying the deaths travel a signifier seen successful different districts specified arsenic Dukki, Ziarat and Quetta. In those cases too, individuals who had antecedently gone missing aboriginal turned up dormant successful what were officially described arsenic information operations.Human rights groups and Baloch activists accidental these cases constituent to a disturbing inclination of state-led violence. They are calling for autarkic investigations and planetary attraction to guarantee accountability. “This is portion of a systematic campaign,” said 1 rights campaigner. “There needs to beryllium an extremity to the impunity," they added.