American Friends of Balochistan
Terrorism in all its forms must be combatted
November 26, 2011
Excellencies Ambassador Cameron P. Munter & Ambassador Richard E. Hoagland
U.S. Embassy, Islamabad
Subject: Genocide in Balochistan
Dear Ambassadors Munter & Hoagland:
We like bring to your notice the killing of a Baloch political activist and leader, Jalil Reki, central spokesperson for the Baloch Republican Party.
Reki was buried Friday amid vociferous slogans for the freedom of Balochistan in his native Soorab, Kalat.
According to his father Abdul Qadeer Reki on February 13, 2009 more than a dozen Pakistani intelligence officials 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 Sariab Road in Quetta.
So far more than 240 decomposed bodies of Baloch political leaders, lawyers, doctors and writers, who were forcibly disappeared in a similar fashion have been dumped by the Pakistani intelligence and security services since July 2010.
Nearly 1,400 documented victims of enforced disappearances are in the custody of the intelligence agencies, but Balochistan chief minister Nawab Aslam Raisani publicly admitted that and he is powerless before them.
Balochistan governor Nawab Zulfikar Magsi made a demand to Pakistan army chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani at a public meeting in February to account for the victims of enforced disappearances persons in February; bodies of two Baloch student activists Qambar Chakar and Ilyas Nazar were dumped two days later.
Abdul Qadeer Reki is the vice president of the Voice for Baloch Missing Persons in Quetta. The V.B.M.P. has time and againdrawn yor attention to the issue of enforced disappearances, torture and extrajudicial killings of Baloch citizens.
Last month, Senator Dr. Malik Baloch, president of one of the largest political parties in Balochistan named National Party, personally met with Madam Secretary Hilary Clinton and sought U.S. help to end enforced disappearances and extra-judicial killings in Balochistan.
Likewise “Baloch Nelson Mandela” former chief minister Sardar Akhtar Mengal has sent missives to the United Nations for intervention in Balochistan.
In the backdrop of these popular and legitimate demands of Senator Malik Baloch and Chief Minister Mengal, the American Friends of Balochistan calls upon the United States government to play its humanitarian role in Balochistan.
We also urge you and Madam Secretary Hilary Clinton to hold direct talks with Baloch leaders, including but not limited to, Brahumdagh Bugti, president of the Baloch Republican Party; Sardar Akhtar Mengal, president of the Balochistan National Party; Dr. Malik Baloch, president of the National Party; the Right Honorable Khan of Kalat Mir Suleman Daud Ahmadzai; Hyrbyair Marri, leader of Baloch National Voice; Dr. Jumma Marri, chief of Baloch Unity Moscow; and Mehran Baluch, Balochistan's voice in Geneva.
You might be well aware the attacks on N.A.T.O. oil tankers passing through Balochistan are in line with Pakistan state policy, which is determined by powerful military generals. These attacks, instigated by the Inter Services Intelligence, need to be stopped at all costs.
In this political backdrop, the American Friends of Balochistan demands of the government of the United States to take immediate steps and measures to help the people of Balochistan just like it did in Libya to secure U.S. long-term vital interests in the region.
We also urge the U.S. to enact visa waivers to Baloch activists who are escaping persecution in Pakistan and Iran.
Launching of Balochi service by the Voice of America might be a small baby step in the right direction.
We look forward to your immediate attention and kind intervention to stop the ongoing genocide in Balochistan.
Sincerely,
Rashid Baloch, Malik Baloch and Zahid Mir
Presiding Council Members
American Friends of Balochistan
Washington DC
Mailing address:
9808 47th Pl. # 305
College Park, MD 20740
Tel: 301 744 9366
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