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Eight Bullet-Riddled Bodies Found in SW Pakistan
[AnNahar] Authorities on Sunday found eight bullet riddled bodies in Pakistain's restive southwestern Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... province, which is facing a tribal insurgency, sectarian violence and Taliban attacks, officials said. Five bodies were recovered from the district of Pashin and three from that of Ziarat, provincial home secretary Akbar Durrani told Agence La Belle France-Presse. "We have found eight bodies today which are being brought to Quetta for identification and further investigation," Durrani said. Local police confirmed the discovery of bodies but had no immediate details. Balochistan, Pakistain's largest but least developed and most sparsely populated province, is racked by Islamist myrmidons, banditry and sectarian violence between Sunnis and Shiites. In October the Human Rights Commission of Pakistain said that more than 300,000 people, including minority Shiites and Hindus, had left Balochistan over the past 10 years due to rising unrest. Pak rights group Defense for Human Rights says as many as 2,000 people have disappeared from across the country, many from Balochistan. Rights groups accuse the government of gross violations including holding people in secret and failing to charge them or put them on trial. Pakistain's Supreme Court and high courts have also been investigating cases of missing people and issuing warnings to the government to recover these people. Posted by: trailing wife 2014-12-22 |
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