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13. Who is Colonel Doda? Who calls up the newspapers and accepts responsibility of bomb
blasts on behalf of BLA and BLF?
14. Which is the militant group of Ghulam Mohammad (President of BNM)?
15. What do Ghulam Mohammad and other BNM leaders want?
One day they beat me up for hours and insisted that I should prove my innocence to them and that I
had no affiliation with BLA(Baloch Liberation Army).
Another day, I was tortured and asked that I should tell them who Colonel Doda was. They tortured
me for at least three hours that day, and insisted that at any cost I should give them a clue to who calls up the
press and accepts responsibility for bomb blasts in different parts of Balochistan.
Mainly, I was asked to name the people responsible for bomb blasts, and other guerilla attacks, in
different places of Balochistan.
The torture
I was tortured physically as well as mentally. The details are as follows:
Physical Torture
I classify the physical torture into three categories:
1. Mild Continuous Torture: They kept me standing for hours during interrogation. Sometimes they
held sticks, at other times they held flat pieces of rubber or leather in their hands. After every question,! was hit
once. With every sentence they used to hit me with any of the above mentioned objects. I could not see exactly
see which object it was, as I was blindfolded at the time.
2. Severe Occasional Torture: After they failed to get the expected answer, I was ordered to lie
down on the floor. Then they continuously hit me with that leather type thing for four or five minutes. It was so
painful that I could not move for a couple of minutes, after their beating session had ended. Again, they ordered
me to get up and started asking questions. After a few minutes, I was again told to lie down and the same
procedure was repeated. On one occasion, I had to lie on the ground and one man climbed on to my already
handcuffed hands, the other put a stick in the fetters, and raised my feet six to eight inches from the ground,
while the third beat me up brutally. They used to hit me everywhere, but often they would hit me on my left
kidney. I was beaten so brutally, that after every interrogation session my clothes were red with blood on the
back, especially around the area of the thighs.
3. Lame feet torture: The third kind of torture was by raising my feet a few inches from the ground
and hitting the sole of my feet with a stick. This made me lame for at least two days after every interrogation.
Mental Torture
I was severely mentally tortured. Being at such a place was torture itself, but other than this, they used
many other forms of mental torture; some examples of which are given below:
1. Uncertainty: I did not know what was going to happen to me, and with my other friends. I did not
know for how many days we would be kept there, or when and if we would be released from this prison alive.
This uncertainty, and many other things was itself torture.
2. Solitary confinement: I hardly saw a human face the whole time I was there. The loneliness was by