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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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