ISLAMABAD: The Jamhoori Wattan Party (JWP) claims that almost 13,000 people are missing from Dera Bugti and other parts of Balochistan and Sindh since Nawab Akbar Bugti’s martyrdom in 2006.
“These persons, including women, were picked up from time to time,” the JWP President Talal Bugti, assassinated Akbar Bugti’s son, told The News on Monday.
He said he intends to pinpoint those behind the missing persons and would also present evidences before the Judicial Commission set up under the supervision of Justice (Retd) Javed Iqbal. “Yes, I am prepared to give the lists and other proofs.”
Appreciating Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry for taking a notice of IG FC’s media conference, Talal revealed that he wished to submit relevant material before the inquiry commission headed by Justice (R) Iqbal.
“The CJ should ensure that all those with evidences are provided an opportunity to record their statements before the commission if the real hands are to be exposed and missing persons, if surviving, are to be recovered.”
Talal explained that at least 200 ladies are among these missing persons. “All these people either hail from Dera Bugti or were living in other parts of the province or Sindh.”“But I am not being given time by the same commission to bring on record our submissions about the (missing) persons picked up from time to time since 2006, either they are killed or being kept in custody by the intelligence operatives.
The Balochistan people, he said, would have no choice but to call for United Nations Organization and other international organization to intervene into the affairs if “we are being deprived of” bringing the facts on record.” The JWP chief rejected that only 55-60 people from Balochistan are among the missing ones. “As to why not the commission listens to Baloch people through their leaders for collecting the evidence of missing persons?”
