The Long March of Baloch families for safe recovery of their loved ones which started on October 27 from Quetta culminated in Karachi on Friday with an appeal to the United Nations to intervene to end abductions and dumping of mutilated bodies of Baloch political workers.
The Long March was held under the banner of Voice of Baloch Missing Persons. They were holding the pictures of their loved ones in their hands.
Over two dozen participants, mostly women and children, traveled 750-km on mountainous and plain areas of Balochistan on foot and ended their journey on the 27th day on Friday at Karachi Press Club. A huge crowed of Sindhi nationalist workers, civil society and human rights’ activists and media persons welcomed them and showered rose petals on them.
The Long March was led by the chief of ‘Voice of Baloch Missing Persons’, Mama Qadeer Baloch.
The Karachi Press Club arranged a welcome reception for the participants of Long March and present Ajraks to them in honor of their struggle and determination to stand firm for their rights.
Mama Qadeer thanked the Karachi Press Club, Baloch and Sindhi nationalists and people of Lyari for their moral support and physical presence to welcome them. Mama, who took an initiate of Long March, alleged the officers of secret intelligence agencies and other officers of the government have threatened him to call off the plan of Long March otherwise be ready to face the consequences.
Besides the Balochistan government of Dr Malik Baloch, he was also offered a blank cheque and other perks in return of shelving the struggle of Long March. He lambasted the provincial government that it was offering him to sell the motherland and dead bodies of the martyrs.
He further said he escaped three attacks on his life during the journey of Long March. He will unveil the details and disclose the names who made offers to him to call off the plan. “We want recovery of our loved ones.”
Qadeer Baloch, who set up hunger strike camp outside the Karachi Press Club for about two years for the recovery of missing Baloch persons, said under a pre-planned conspiracy mutilated dead bodies of Baloch missing political workers were being dumped. The situation remains the same during the present provincial government of Dr Malik Baloch. He censured the Balochistan CM over his remarks about the Long March as the seasonal march. Qadeer appealed to the United Nations to break its silence on the issue of missing persons.
He announced to initiate another phase of struggle on foot towards Islamabad or the United Nations. He said that despite the order of the Supreme Court, the abducted persons were not being released by the LEAs.
Source: The Nation
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