I HAVE been following the letters regarding the Baloch lecturer, Hassan Janan, by Chakar Baloch (Sept 10) and Naeem Baloch (Sept 13).
The act of agencies towards the builders of the nation is immensely shocking.
No one in a civilised world apprehends an honourable man like Hassan Janan as a thug and harasses him. It is also not in the Constitution of the land to detain a person without any concrete evidence.
Besides this, the intelligentsia, writers and civil society of the country have no qualms as they have been silent on this issue. Many more like Hassan Janan are being thrown behind bars without any cases against them.
The government claim of giving the Baloch equal rights and opportunities and releasing them from prison has proved wrong.
It has become so common that every successive regime would extend apologies to the Baloch for the injustice done by agencies or the army but later they would also become part of them.
I’d like to remind the newly elected president of the apologies he had extended to the Baloch, and hope that he would address the Baloch grievances and will bring to justice the tormentors of the honourable lecturer.
I would also lodge a complaint against journalists, intelligentsia, writers, and civil society for not taking up the matter of the lecturer’s imprisonment etc.
SAMEERA ZAMAN BALOCH
Turbat, Kech
(II)
THIS is apropos of the letters regarding lecturer Hassan Janan’s detention and humiliation (Sept 10 and 13). It is very sad to say that the Baloch have been oppressed and victimised by every successive government.
Detaining a Baloch is not astounding news because many of them were allegedly made to disappear during the Musharraf regime. However, what is perhaps even more disappointing is that the new elected government is adopting the policies of all the previous military regimes.
The followers of democracy themselves are violating laws by committing such unfortunate acts. The silence of the media against the Baloch shows its bias.
I appeal to the electronic media to address Baloch grievances. I also appeal to President Asif Ali Zardari to take notice of the unjust arrest of the Baloch lecturer.
RIAZ KAMAL
Balochistan
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