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Missing persons are hiding voluntarily: Pakistan PM
Karachi News.Net
Thursday 4th January, 2007 (IANS)
Faced with growing protests over a large number of missing persons in the country, Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has now said that most are 'hiding voluntarily'.
Aziz 'fell short of calling the missing persons criminals under-(in) hiding', Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) news agency said.
The prime minister Wednesday also asked their relatives to follow proper protocol while demanding their return. Aziz said the interior ministry was investigating the matter and also asked for cooperation from the relatives of these people.
Last week, relatives of scores of missing persons, both civilian and military, were arrested in Islamabad after they staged demonstrations in front of the Army Headquarters and the office of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), the powerful spy network.
They suspect that their relatives have been in ISI custody or some other government agency and are being held without any court procedure.
Their basic demand has been that they be told the missing persons' whereabouts and be allowed access to them.
The missing, according to government sources, include criminals and those involved in sectarian violence going into hiding from the law or crossing over to Afghanistan through a long and porous border.
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Anonymous
01-04-07, 09:59 AM |
Missing persons are hiding voluntarily: Pakistan PM
This is the big joke of the year and above of all the highest lie of Pakistanis.
Musharaf & co. Ltd. are following the path of Pinochet, ex-dictator of Chile and to hide their crimes, they are using the track of big lier Goebler of Nazi-Germany. About 6000 opposition political workers, according to the statements of Interior Minister (Sherpao) of Pakistan and daily media of
Pakistan, have been kidnapped and their whereabout are unknown.
More than 3,50000 people have been displaced by the oppression/attacks on Balochistan. Thousands have been killed. Like Sadam, Musharaf of Pakistan has used chemical bombs on Balochs, killing children and women.
The attacks of Pakistani military is continuing on civilians in Balochistan. The United Nations should establish an “International Tribunal” to punish the war crimes” in Balaochistan.
Note:- News of Daily Dawn, Karachi, Pakistan dated 3 Jan 2007
War Crime Tribunal in Balochistan demanded in Sukkur conference
Pakistan: While addressing the JSQM seminar, on the International Human Rights day, against the disappearances, Lala Asad Pathan, the Secretary General of Sukkur press club, has said that during his TV reporting for Balochistan, I have seen multiple graves in Balochistan like Bosnia and Iraq. He said that I agree with he participants of the conference that we should demand International War Crime Tribunal in Balochistan to investigate the atrocities against the Baloch people.
( All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing...........Edmund Burke )
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