Report
on Baloch Prisoners in Pakistani Jails.
Badal Khan Baloch
On
September 29, 2005, I, along with Dr Ishaque Baloch and Dr Shamma Ishaque Baloch (NP's MP), visited
Dr Alla Nazar at Quetta Jail ward. It was not an easy task to have
permission to visit him, and when we got at the
This guard then came to us threatening that he would ask the sardar of his Mengal tribe who
would kill all these students in a minute because they had mistreated him (he
made the sign of decapitating them with daggers). We consoled him telling him
that they were his sons (seeing his old age) and brothers and they were angry
because their chairman was being kept in prison and they were not allowed to
see him.
As to the health of Dr Alla Nazar,
we found him terribly sick with a very poor mental and physical health. He had
been severely tortured and he told us that he had gone through severe physical
torture in
He described to us how the interrogation team had subjected him to mental and
physical torture for days and days in a continuation without giving him a
single minute to rest for days. He told us that once he had been going mad out
of severe pain and had asked for some medicine after being tortured and kept
awaken for days he was again kept awake in a standing position for another 8
hours simply for having asked for medicines.
He told us that he had been given three types of poison (he named them but I
can't remember them now as we were not in a position to either record our talks
or take
notes).
Sometime they would give him anti-dotes after administering
him poison. He said sugar was mixed in his food so that he could bear the
bitter taste of the poison and eat the food. He had also been given some sort
of liquid which has destroyed all of his digestive system. When we met him he
was suffering from severe pain in his chest and stomach. Left side of his head
was totally benumbed and his left leg was almost paralysed.
He told us that all of his comrades had left legs paralysed.
Physically he was very weak and trembling all the time. He said he had been
beaten heavily on his stomach and lower parts of the stomach and, as a result,
he could not stand straight.
He was physically very weak and mentally upset and disturbed. He said he loses
his temper frequently and very easily. He was afraid of getting mad if not
treated properly. He was not receiving any proper treatment at all.
There were two nurses and one ward boy in the whole jail ward who had no idea
of any treatment. He said he would request for a doctor but a medical officer
appears only after two or three days and he continues to suffer in the
meantime.
The only thing that he had intact was his high morale: he repeatedly told us
that he would never bow to the enemies of his nation and would sacrifice all
his life for the freedom of his people and the right of the Baloch.
He said the was is still on and he would fight it
until the last breath.
He wanted me to pass on his message to the Baloch
community outside Balochistan telling them that his
body has been paralysed but not his will and
determination.
He told us that he and two of his comrades have been remanded for a one month
long interrogation at the Joint Interrogation Team. Later on a journalist
friend managed to get a copy of the order in which three heroes of the Baloch are ordered to be remanded. The order is issued by
the Home and Tribal Affairs Department with the subject of “Interrogation of
Suspects through Joint Interrogation Team” comprised of 1) The Department of
Police Special Branch Chairman, 2) Representative of ISI, 3)Representative of
Military Intelligence, 4) Representative of Intelligence Bureau, and 5)
Representative of Corps Intelligence Unit (313). The letter concludes by
ordering these agencies that “the interrogation of the suspects, Dr Allah Nazar, Akhtar Nadeem
and Gohar Khan, be conducted in Sub Jail ATF, Quetta Cantt., and a report with
recommendations of the JIT may be furnished to this department positively”.
Now, seeing the preoccupying physical and mental conditions of Dr Allah Nazar (I have no idea of others as I had no occasion to
meet them) he is not in a condition to go through another mental and physical torture
in the hands of these criminals. It is, therefore, requested to the
peace-loving peoples around the world and to all human rights organizations to
please come forward and force the criminal regime of Pakistan to stop violating
human rights in Balochistan and immediately release
all Baloch students and other political prisoners so
that they can get proper treatment in proper health centres.
All Baloch organizations are requested to take immediateaction and to do their best to make sure that
Pakistani authorities stop their inhuman treatment against Baloch
political prisoners.
Long live the peaceful struggle of the Baloch for
their basic human
rights.