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Conflict in Balochistan 54 Torture on the 21st day On the 21 a day, I was really badly tortured, after which I was not able to move, let alone lift one of my fingers. I kept lying in the cell for a week, without going to the toilet or eating anything. Note: This is only the first of a three-part story. It contains the details about the circumstances and details related to the torture cell in Karachi only. The second part of it explains the shift of all seven detainees to Quetta, as well as the location and environment of the torture cell in Quetta. The third part relates to the release of four out of seven Baloch activists from Dera Ghazi Khan.
HRCP fact-finding missions’ report 55 Appendix ‘C’ Human rights in Balochistan and Balochistan’s rights Report of a fact-finding mission: October 2003 Introduction The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has been taking various measures to apprise itself of the state of human rights in the province of Balochistan. The provincial chapter at Quetta keeps a watch on developments, positive as well as negative, that have any bearing on the basic rights of the people. It organises, among other activities, fact-finding missions as and when warranted by circumstances. Investigations into human rights violations of local nature are regularly carried out by district core groups and activists. Their reports are published in the monthly Jehd-i-Haq, of which a combined Balochi-Pushtu edition is also published. In 2001 when large parts of the province were hit by drought the HRCP chairperson Afrasiab Khattak himself led an inquiry mission. Every two years or so the HRCP Council, the organisation’s executive body, meets in Quetta to enable its members to gain first-hand knowledge of the ground reality and interact with the leaders of public opinion and the provincial civil society. However, the need for continuous overseeing of the human rights situation in Balochistan, as in other parts of the country, can hardly be gainsaid. In October 2003 the commission decided to organise a high-powered fact-finding mission to undertake a broad survey of the human rights situation over a sizeable area of the province. The mission was led by the HRCP Secretary- General, Ms Hina Jilani, who is also the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative on Human Rights Defenders, and included 13 other members of the Council. The mission was divided into five teams that visited Gwadar, Turbat (and Tump), Khuzdar, Loralai and Quetta. (See Annexure I) The members of the teams met a large number of people in the administration, as well as representatives of political parties, lawyers, journalists, and social activists, to elicit their views on a broad range of issues of concern to them. A preliminary mission statement containing a summary of its findings was released to the media on October 26, 2003. (See Annexure II) A more detailed report of the mission’s findings and recommendations is given in the following pages. HRCP is conscious of the fact that its mission may not have been able to cover each and every issue of concern to the people of Balochistan and that some of the matters it tried to address demand further study and analysis. However, it has decided to release this report because it does touch upon quite a few issues that have been agitating the minds of the conscious sections of Balochistan society. These issues call for urgent remedial action by the state and the civil society both if they are not to be allowed to develop into serious and dangerous causes of discontent. A large number of people responded to the call of the mission at short notice and freely gave of their time. HRCP thanks them for their kind and generous support and acknowledges their contribution to the furtherance of the cause of human rights. The whole of Balochistan, as usual, was a wonderful host and HRCP hopes to be able to savour more of its hospitality and its candid discourse.
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