Report on Baloch Prisoners in Pakistani Jails.
Badal Khan Baloch Reports.
 

On September 29, 2005, I, along with Dr Ishaque Baloch and Dr Shamma Ishaque Baloch (NP's MP), visited Dr Alla Nazar at Quetta Jail ward. It was not an easy task to have permission to visit him, and when we got at the Sandeman Hospital's Jail ward; we found a group of angry students who were there to meet their comrade but with no success. They expelled all their anger against the police guard who happened to be a Mengal Baloch.

This guard then came to us threatening that he would ask the sardar of his Mengal tribe who would kill all these students in a minute because they had mistreated him (he made the sign of decapitating them with daggers). We consoled him telling him that they were his sons (seeing his old age) and brothers and they were angry because their chairman was being kept in prison and they were not allowed to see him.

As to the health of Dr Alla Nazar, we found him terribly sick with a very poor mental and physical health. He had been severely tortured and he told us that he had gone through severe physical torture in Karachi but had been subject to repeated mental torture in Quetta's infamous Kuli camp prison.

He described to us how the interrogation team had subjected him to mental and physical torture for days and days in a continuation without giving him a single minute to rest for days. He told us that once he had been going mad out of severe pain and had asked for some medicine after being tortured and kept awaken for days he was again kept awake in a standing position for another 8 hours simply for having asked for medicines.
He told us that he had been given three types of poison (he named them but I can't remember them now as we were not in a position to either record our talks or take
notes).

Sometime they would give him anti-dotes after administering him poison. He said sugar was mixed in his food so that he could bear the bitter taste of the poison and eat the food. He had also been given some sort of liquid which has destroyed all of his digestive system. When we met him he was suffering from severe pain in his chest and stomach. Left side of his head was totally benumbed and his left leg was almost paralysed.
He told us that all of his comrades had left legs paralysed. Physically he was very weak and trembling all the time. He said he had been beaten heavily on his stomach and lower parts of the stomach and, as a result, he could not stand straight.
He was physically very weak and mentally upset and disturbed. He said he loses his temper frequently and very easily. He was afraid of getting mad if not treated properly. He was not receiving any proper treatment at all.
There were two nurses and one ward boy in the whole jail ward who had no idea of any treatment. He said he would request for a doctor but a medical officer appears only after two or three days and he continues to suffer in the meantime.
The only thing that he had intact was his high morale: he repeatedly told us that he would never bow to the enemies of his nation and would sacrifice all his life for the freedom of his people and the right of the Baloch.
He said the was is still on and he would fight it until the last breath.
He wanted me to pass on his message to the Baloch community outside Balochistan telling them that his body has been paralysed but not his will and determination.
He told us that he and two of his comrades have been remanded for a one month long interrogation at the Joint Interrogation Team. Later on a journalist friend managed to get a copy of the order in which three heroes of the Baloch are ordered to be remanded. The order is issued by the Home and Tribal Affairs Department with the subject of “Interrogation of Suspects through Joint Interrogation Team” comprised of 1) The Department of Police Special Branch Chairman, 2) Representative of ISI, 3)Representative of Military Intelligence, 4) Representative of Intelligence Bureau, and 5) Representative of Corps Intelligence Unit (313). The letter concludes by ordering these agencies that “the interrogation of the suspects, Dr Allah Nazar, Akhtar Nadeem and Gohar Khan, be conducted in Sub Jail ATF, Quetta Cantt., and a report with recommendations of the JIT may be furnished to this department positively”.
Now, seeing the preoccupying physical and mental conditions of Dr Allah Nazar (I have no idea of others as I had no occasion to meet them) he is not in a condition to go through another mental and physical torture in the hands of these criminals. It is, therefore, requested to the peace-loving peoples around the world and to all human rights organizations to please come forward and force the criminal regime of Pakistan to stop violating human rights in Balochistan and immediately release all Baloch students and other political prisoners so that they can get proper treatment in proper health centres. All Baloch organizations are requested to take immediateaction and to do their best to make sure that Pakistani authorities stop their inhuman treatment against Baloch political prisoners.
Long live the peaceful struggle of the Baloch for their basic human
rights.