Human rights group deplores torture of Baluch students

by Ahmar Mustikhan | July 24, 2009 at 04:26 am

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An international organization working as a watch-dog on human rights violations in Asia has taken a serious note of torture of students in the restive Baluchistan province, where an insurgency which the Baluch call their Fifth War of Liberation has been raging for almost five years that has left thousands dead or missing.

The Nazi-style tactics that Pakistan's infamous Inter Services Intelligence and Military Intelligence use against Baluch youth and students to defeat their resolve for freedom, may make Gitmo or Abu Gharaib look like heaven.

After Pakistan's accusation of Indian involvement in subversive activities in Balochistan province, the law enforcement agencies reacted heavily against the students of the province who have sympathies with nationalist movement, the Hong Kong-based AHRC said in a statement Thursday.

"The para-military forces, particularly, the Frontier Corps (FC) started arresting people, keeping them in incommunicado in unknown places," the AHRC said

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