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Balochistan, a resource-rich country occupied by Pakistan, thousands of innocent civilians, students and activists are
missing. Locals say the missing individuals have been abducted by Pakistan's military and associated forces as a way
to suppress and subjugate the Baloch people.
There is disagreement on the actual number missing. An association for peaceful protest formed by some of the
families of those missing, called the International Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (IVBMP) says that up to 18,000
Baloch are currently unaccounted for, of whom more than 2000 were killed between 2001 to 2013.
Mama Qadeer's son, Jaleel Reki Baloch, 23 was martyred three years after he was taken. He was abducted from the
front door of his home in Quetta, on February 13, 2009, after returning from Friday prayers with friends. Eyewitnesses
told The Diplomat that there were four unmarked cars with two FC pickup trucks. Nearby shopkeepers, Reki's friends,
cobblers, vegetable vendors and other people in the neighbourhood all witnessed the abduction, which they claim
was by the ISI. Jalil Reki was a political activist working towards a Baloch movement for liberation. His abduction and
killing is an example to many other Baloch activists, and many locals say that they asked their sons to leave such
political groups when they saw his mutilated corpse return home three years later.
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