Rt. Hon. David Cameron
Prime Minister of Great Britain
10 Downing Street
London
Subject: Murder of the Baloch Leader by the Pakistani Secret Agencies
Dear Mr. Prime Minister,
We would like to draw your attention to the cold blooded murder of Baloch Nationalist Leader and General Secretary of Balochistan National Party Mr. Habib Jalib by a death squad of the Pakistani Military Intelligence Agency last week inQuetta.
Habib Jalib was well-known and respected nationalist political leader of Balochistan and had worked steadfastly at the forefront of the political mobilization for the genuine rights of the Baloch people.
Your Excellency,
Balochistan is under a brutal military operation for the last six years in which thousands of innocent men, women and children have been mercilessly killed, hundreds of thousands have been displaced and thousands are missing. A large number of prominent Baloch social, intellectual and political figures has been targeted and eliminated by the state security agencies of Pakistan. The state establishment of Pakistan has always remained very keen to silence the voice of reason raised for the lawful rights of the Baloch people.
Crude military force has been the only mode of action adopted by almost every Pakistani Government in dealing with the Baloch demand for national rights. Extra judicial killings of the Baloch by the army, paramilitary and state intelligence agencies, harassment, kidnapping and inhuman torture of the Baloch political activists and intellectuals during the sustained military campaigns have been permanent features of the state and Baloch conflict. Different non-governmental organizations and international humanitarian institutions including some Britain based organizations have published graphic details of human rights violation in Balochistan.
Mr. Prime Minister,
Keeping in mind the extensive links of this country with the Pakistani State, we believe that the British government is well aware of the heinous crimes being committed by the Pakistani State Machinery in Balochistan. As the British Government was the major player in the creation of Pakistan and the subsequent occupation of Balochistan by the Pakistan, it becomes the moral obligation of the British Government and the people to take serious note of the situation in Balochistan. For the Baloch, in the face of heinous crimes being committed by the Pakistani security forces in Balochistan, the silence of British Government is incomprehensible. We believe that no individual or state should be above International Law. Those who are responsible for grave violation of human rights must be held accountable.
The Baloch are facing a systematic genocide. They need urgent help from the civilized and democratic world. We hope that the honorable Prime Minister may kindly take a personal interest in pushing for a thorough and independent international investigation into the cold-blooded murder of the Baloch nationalist leader and other serious abuses of international human rights and humanitarian law by the Pakistani Army in Balochistan.
We demand that in order to bring justice to the Baloch people, the Government of Great Britain should use its influence for the stationing of an international peacekeeping force in Balochistan to save a whole nation from being wiped out systematically. Failing to do so is letting down a people who are being minced under the powerful jaws of the military establishment of a recognized rogue state.
Yours faithfully
On Behalf of:
Baloch Human Rights Council (UK)
World Sindhi Congress (WSC)
Samad Baloch
General Secretary
Baloch Human Rights Council
E-mail: info_bhrc@yahoo.co.uk
Dr. Haleem Bhatti
Chairman World Sindhi Congress
Email: world_sindhi_congress@
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