Pakistan gets a double advantage.On the one hand it wipes out Baluchistan nationalists,on the other it gets Taliban to be re-recruited for terrorist activities
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is expressing alarm over reports that thousands of political separatists and capturedTaliban insurgents have disappeared into the hands of Pakistan’s police and security forces, and that some may have been tortured or killed
The issue came up in a State Department report to Congress last month that urged Pakistan to address this and other human rights abuses. It threatens to become the latest source of friction in the often tense relationship between the wartime allies.
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The concern is over a steady stream of accounts from human rights groups that Pakistan’s security services have rounded up thousands of people over the past decade, mainly in Baluchistan, a vast and restive province far from the fight with the Taliban, and are holding them incommunicado without charges. Some American officials think that the Pakistanis have used the pretext of war to imprison members of the Baluch nationalist opposition that has fought for generations to separate from Pakistan. Some of the so-called disappeared are guerrillas; others are civilians.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/30/world/asia/30disappear.html?hp
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PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania: Balochistan has once again been rejected as an agenda for action by the Amnesty International, reports from a conference in this steel town revealed.
A resolution that called for more action to end enforced disappearances in Balochistan was shot down 22 against 14 as key position holders within Amnesty International spoke out against it at the Mid Atlantic Regional Conference here at a local hotel.
A lone Baloch member of the Amnesty International in the USA protested why the sequence of when the resolution was to be taken was changed at the last moment, conveying to the particpants as if it was not important.
Key office-bearers of the Amnesty International, including Larry Cox, exectutve director AIUSA, Ellen Dorsey, executive director of the Wallace Global Fund, and Gouri Sadhwani, deputy executive director were among those present at the conference.
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