“We want Balochistan to be an independent state,” said Shah Awais Noorani

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IFE Admin
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We want Balochistan to be an independent state,” Shah Awais Noorani said in a statement. The statement came at the backdrop of Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s daughter Maryan Nawaz Sharif who slammed Pakistan Army for genocide in Balochistan.

According to sources, at a meeting of Pakistan’s opposition parties in Quetta, Shah Ahmad Noorani’s son Owais Noorani has exposed Pakistan Army’ atrocities in Balochistan.

The Frontier Corps (FC), Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency and other groups have been accused of “a decade-long campaign” of “pick up and dump” in which “Baloch nationalists, freedom fighters or even innocent bystanders are picked up, disappeared, tortured, mutilated and then killed”.

Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency has been accused of massive human rights abuses in Balochistan by Human Rights Watch, with the enforced disappearance of hundreds of nationalists and activists. In 2008 alone, an estimated 1102 people were disappeared from the region.

There have also been reports of torture. An increasing number of bodies are being found on roadsides, having been shot in the head. In July 2011, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan issued a report on illegal disappearances in Balochistan which identified ISI and Frontier Corps as the perpetrators.

According to journalist Malik Siraj Akbar, as of May 2015, “dozens of people are losing their lives every day” in “extrajudicial killings committed by the Pakistani security forces” in the province of Balochistan. However, Pakistan security officials have rejected all allegations against them as usual.

On the other hand, there is a strong reaction against the Pakistan Army for interfering in the political democratic process in the country.  Demands are being made to punish the Pakistan Army official for abusing human rights in occupied Balochistan, Sindh, Gilgit Baltistan, Waziristan and Pakistan Occupied Kashmir. People are protesting against Pakistan Army’s atrocities.