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Islamabad, Mar 22(ANI): Pakistan intelligence agencies, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and its sister organisations have been involved in over one thousand murder cases in Balochistan, according to a report.

The Baloch National Voice (BNV), a Baloch nationalist pro-independence organisation, has released a detailed report of under-custody killings of Baloch political activists in last six months of 2010, the Sri Lanka Guardian reports.

The report said that the year 2010 was one of the bloodiest years for Balochistan, with at least 60 Baloch political prisoners having been murdered in cold-blood by Pakistani security forces from July 2010 to December 2010.

The mutilated or decomposed bodies found from different areas in Balochistan bore signs of extreme torture, including electric shocks, pulling nails out, carving their bodies with sharp objects and throwing acid on the faces of Baloch political activists, with the majority of them being shot in their heads and eyes.

Most of the victims of Pakistan’s Military Intelligence belonged to pro-liberation Baloch political parties and student organisations including BSO-Azaad and the Baloch National Movement (BNM), the report said.

Apart from political parties’ members, a large number of the victims were other innocent civilians such as lawyers, students, intellectuals, writers, social activists, human rights activists and poets.

The Pakistani military and their sponsored organisation Sepah-e-Shohada-e-Balochistan (The Army of the Martyrs of Balochistan), which has been named as the ‘Punjabi death squad’ by Baloch people, have claimed the responsibility for most of the under-custody killings of Baloch political activists, it added.

Attorney General of Pakistan Malik Qayum openly said in a Geo TV programme that several Baloch people have been killed by Pakistani intelligence agencies and that they have been buried in mass graves, the report said.

Balochistan Chief Minister Aslam Raisani has also admitted that Pakistani intelligence agencies are involved in abductions and target killings of Baloch youth, it added.

He also said that his government is helpless before the notorious intelligence agencies, and that the Frontier Constabulary (FC) is running a parallel government in Balochistan and it is out of the control of his government.

Former Federal Interior Minister Aftab Sherpao had also accepted that at least 4000 Baloch were being detained by his government during former military ruler Pervez Musharraf’s regime, the report said, adding that the majority of these people are still missing.

From the above statements of confession by top Pakistani minister it is proven that the Pakistani intelligence agencies, the military intelligence and the paramilitary forces have been given the licence to capture and kill any Baloch, anytime and anywhere they want, the report said, adding that these agencies are a law onto themselves and not answerable to anyone. (ANI)