Police ordered to registered FIRs of missing persons

The Baloch Hal News

QUETTA: In the light of direction of Supreme Court of Pakistan, the provincial Home and Tribal Affairs’ Department has asked Balochistan police for registration of FIRs regarding missing persons on behalf of their families.

This was revealed by Provincial Secretary for Home and Tribal Affairs Akbar Hussain Durrani while talking to Baloch Hal here on Sunday.

He said that the provincial home department received a directive from federal interior minister Rehman Malik for further directing all police stations that FIRs on behalf of the families of missing persons might be registered.

He said that all House Station Officers had been ordered to entertain the applications and register FIRs without any delay, if the any family member of missing persons approached the police. “These orders are issued in the light of the directives of Supreme Court of Pakistan”, he added.

He said that federal Interior Ministry had sent a list of 992 missing persons from Balochistan and the provincial Home department also set up a cell for entertaining the complaints in this regard.

Durrani said that 65 families out of total 992 missing persons had so far contacted the cell and produced completed details about the missing persons. He said that some eight persons had reached their homes while families of 57 missing persons were asked to approach the police regarding registration of cases where they wanted.

On the other hand Nasrullah Baloch, the Chairman for Voice for Baloch Missing Persons claimed that some twelve thousands Baloch persons had gone missing during the last eight years of Perviz Musharraf.

He said that Baloch youth and political activists were still being kidnapped by the personnel of intelligence agencies and Frontier Corps Balochistan in the province. He said that his organization had compiled the list of twelve hundred with complete detail of missing persons and had sent to all international human rights organizations.

He said that his organization was protesting and holding token hunger strike camps in different parts of Balochistan pressuring the government to make measures for early recovery of missing persons.