The Baloch Hal News
QUETTA/PANJGUR: It was the end of hopes for four-year old Beurag Baloch after two years of consistent protest in front of the Quetta Press Club along with his grandfather Abdul Qadeer Baloch continued until the recovery of his missing father’s bullet-riddled dead body from Panjgur district.
The dead body of Jalil Rekhi, the central press secretary of the Baloch Republic Party (BRP) who had disappeared more than one year ago, has been found and identified by family members, confirmed BRP spokesman Sher Mohmmad Bugti on Thursday.
Rekhi’s son Beurag Baloch was the youngest of all the protestors sitting in front of the Quetta Press Club while his father, Abdul Qadeer Rekhi, was the eldest of all protestors demanding the release of the disappeared people. They were both popular and a continued source of encouragement to others who had joined them in a similar struggle. They always drew more attention than other protesters because of their age and determination to fight for justice.
Sources said levies Force personnel had recovered two bullet- riddled dead bodies from Aap Sar area of Turbat. Dead bodies had been shifted to District Headquarters’ hospital Turbat for autopsy and identity.
However, on Thursday, the identity of thirty-five year old Jalil Reki was made. His body showed bullet wounds on the head besides multiple marks of violence, Levies Force officials said.
Reki’s father, Mama Qadeer Baloch, is one of the most important leaders of the Voice for Missing Baloch Persons, an organization formed by the relatives of the missing persons. He had joined and improved the performance of the organization after the disappearance of his son, a former banker. Qadir had remained instrumental as the vice president of the VBMP in organizing press conferences, seminars, hunger strike camps and filing petitions at different courts.He confirmed to the Balcoh Hal about the recovery of his son’s bullet-riddled body in Panjgur but said it still needed to be brought to Quetta, Reki’s native city.
According to the account provided by Qadeer, his son was allegedly abducted by persons in plain clothes on 13 February 2009 during the day time.
“Over 12 to 15 people emerged from a group of vehicles and pulled Jalil Reki into a pickup while he was walking home from Friday prayers, near a girls’ school at Kechi Baig, on Sarriab Road in Quetta,” he said, and adding that the vehicles included two jeeps and two pickups with tinted windows and no registration plates.
Qadir Baloch was routinely sitting in hunger strike camp established outside Quetta Press Club when he was informed about confirmation of identity of his son’s dead body.
“My son has sacrificed his life for the sake of his motherland Balochistan and Baloch nation, and I am proud of him. The bullet-riddled bodies will not deviate us from our struggle,” he said, and adding that so far more than 240 decomposed bodies of Baloch political leaders, lawyers, doctors and writers had been discovered sine June 2010.
“All missing persons are my sons and I will continue my struggle for their release,” he added.
He alleged Jalil Reki and other missing persons were in the custody of intelligence agencies as Nawab Aslam Raisani had himself told the chairperson of Defence of Human Rights Pakistan Mrs. Amina Masood Janjua during a meeting in Quetta last year that Jalil was in the custody of intelligence agencies.
It may be mentioned here that VBMP has established hunger strike camp outside Quetta Press Club for past one and half year, and few weeks back Qadir Baloch was threatened by unidentified people to end the hunger strike camp, otherwise his son would be killed.
He said their strike camp was sole platform for the relatives of the missing Baloch people the hunger strike would continue until all the missing persons were recovered.
He appealed United Nations and other humanitarian organizations to play their role for the recovery of rest of missing persons otherwise they would also be killed in same manner.
The BRP has strongly condemned the killing of Jalil Reki and announced 40- day- mourning and three day shutter down across the province from Friday (today) over the killing.
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