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Sunday, September 16, 2012
UN mission on missing persons holds talks with ‘stakeholders’QUETTA: While the United Nations (UN) working group arrived on Saturday to ascertain information regarding the cases of missing persons, hundreds of relatives and family members of the missing persons from across the province rallied to Quetta Press Club and later to the Serena Hotel and staged a sit-in outside the hotel to acquaint the group of the fate of their beloved ones.
The UN working group arrived on Saturday morning and met Balochistan Chief Secretary Babar Fateh Muhammad Yaqoob and Home Secretary Naseebullah Bazai at the Balochistan Civil Secretariat.
Later, the UN working group headed towards Serena Hotel where members of Baloch Republican Party (BRP), Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP), HRCP, Balochistan National Party-Awami, Hazara Democratic Party (HDP) and relatives of more than 100 missing persons, including women and children, met with the group individually.
Talking to media, VBMP Chairman Nasarullah Baloch said he provided the group with two lists of missing persons. He said he also informed the group that the list prepared by Justice (r) Javaid Iqbal was far from the truth. Balochistan High Court Bar Association President Ahmed Shahwani said, “We kept three main things before the UN working group, the issue of missing persons, target killings and the spiralling acts of kidnapping for ransom.”
BRP leader Azeem Basheer told media that he provided a list of 12,000 to 14,000 names to the UN working group, which had jointly been prepared by the BRP, BNP and the Baloch Students Organisation-Azad.
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk