Missing Persons' Issue

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Missing Persons Issue

Assignment

A DIV

Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR)

Presented By:

Muhammad Hassaan (Group B)

International Islamic University, Islamabad

16-July-2012

2012


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Introduction

Missing Persons is the term used to refer to the apparently thousands of

people in Pakistan who have been vanished allegedly due to assisting terrorist

organizations. It is said that some of them have been handed over to the CIA andto Afghanistan and later shipped off to Guantanamo-Bay. Many of the Missing

Persons were associated with the Secular Baloch Nationalist and Sindhi

Nationalist Movements.

Government, Supreme Courte, Pakistani Media, Foreign Media and so

called NGOs and Human Rights Organizations are blaming ISI, FC, Pakistan Army

and all other Security Agencies on Missing Persons issue. Pakistani Media is

acting like a child and giving favor to the Foreign Media and Agencies propaganda

against Pakistans Security Agencies. Despite this, they claim that they are the

Fourth Pillar of the State.

Current Scenario

The prosecution of Missing Persons case by Supreme Court of Pakistan is

the most significant issue at this time. In a serious development, Supreme Court

of Pakistan; in its interim order; has put the entire responsibility of the

lawlessness and Missing Persons on FC and has directed the Intelligence Agencies

to produce the missing persons in the court.

Supreme Court summoned IGFC Balochistan to appear in front of the court

to explain his inability to produce the Missing Persons. The Supreme Court

ordered to speed up the recovery of 138 missing persons in the court, which

Supreme Court believes are held by Agencies and FC. Meanwhile, according to the

Defense Secretary, 93 people are missing and no one is in the custody of ISI or

other Agencies.

For the security circles, this decision by the Supreme Court was

discomforting after the findings of a Judicial Commission, working under theFormer Supreme Court Judge, Justice (R) Javed Iqbal, to investigate the Missing

Persons issue. The Commissions Report revealed the involvement of Foreign

Agencies in unrest in the Balochistan Province and showed proofs of their

involvement.


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On Missing Persons case, the facts are significantly opposite to what is

being projected by the Media. The number of missing persons in Balochistsan,

according to the Commissions Findings, is less than that of the other three

Provinces. Opposite to the propaganda, the Commission established that only 460

persons are missing nationwide and according to breakup, concluded by theCommission, 18 missing persons are listed missing from Islamabad, 117 from

Punjab, 174 from Sindh, 170 from KPK, 57 from Balochistan and 12 each from

Azad Kashmir and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).

Even without taking the Findings of the Judicial Commission into

consideration, the most fundamental question remains that why would Pakistans

own Army, FC or any Agency, kidnap the peaceful and patriotic people?

Sardari System in Balochistan

The tribal structure of Baloch society is the biggest challenge in terms of

social and economic uplift of common Balochis. All the major tribes hold centuries

old enmity against each other and this social dynamic plays a central role in the

abuse of power against other tribes especially when a politician from a certain

tribe joins the Provincial or Federal Government.

This Feudal Sardari System has literally slowed down the development in

many parts of the Province particularly in the restless districts while; the Army is

trying desperately for the social uplift of common man through building schoolsand hospitals. Every Federal Government in the history of Pakistan has used this

tribal system for its own political gains.

Now few influential Sardars (mainly Bugti, Marri and Mengal) are actively

launching a separatist movement on political and diplomatic front. BLA and BLF

are working in Balochistan and killing inncocent people. Ethnic target killings,

kidnapping, cruelty and threats to Non-Balochs, including Pakhtoon, Punjabi and

Kashmiri, are common law and order incidents. The Blame of missing persons that

is put on FC might also be linked to the fact that most of the FC personnel are ofPakhtoon ethnicity.


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Alarming aspect of these threatening developments is that their opinions

are given massive attention by the International Media and thus the Foreign

Powers are exploiting their demands to keep Islamabad under pressure for

geostrategic reasons. Missing Persons is one of the problems but it is not the only

problem in the Province.

A Serious Joke

1. All the people who have kidnapped by the Criminals, Terrorists, ForeignAgencies, XE (Black Water), MQM, ANP, PPP, TTP, BLA, BLF are Missing

Persons, but the FC or Agencies are being blamed for that.

2. All the people who have gone from their homes willfully are MissingPersons, but the FC or Agencies are being blamed for that.

3. All the people who have joined terrorists groups without informing theirparents and some of them have died as a suicide bomber or went

anywhere are Missing Persons, but the FC or Agencies are being blamed for

that.

4. In a TV program, a person who was sitting in the Missing Persons Camp inIslamabad said that his son went to Kabul in a flight and was lost in Kabul.

Now even the disappearance of this boy is being blamed on ISI by the

Media. This is how they lie and spread disinformation.

Conclusion

No government institution, including Supreme Court knows the exact

number of Missing Persons, which leads to a basic question that how the

Supreme Court of Pakistan established the exact number of Missing Persons? And

a related and equally critical question arises on the criteria of Supreme Court, as

well, to declare a particular individual as Missing. The quest to answer these

questions, also leads us to analyze the performance and competency of provincial

and federal governments of PPP.

The issue of Missing Persons would never get resolved by focusing on theapparent developments alone. Supreme Court will have to look beyond the

apparent. There are multiple internal and external dynamics that have shaped-up

current environment in Balochistan and understanding these aspects would help

us to analyze the possible implications of the interim order of the Supreme Court

in overall national security perspective.


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The Foreign Agencies as well as Separatists and Insurgents are waging a

massive war against Pakistan, Pak Army and the ISI over the issue of Missing

Persons. Supreme Court is being deceived by the propagandists to lift the

Supreme Court against the Army and the Media would never tell the facts to the

nation.

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