QUETTA: The human rights organization Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP), which has been actively campaigning against enforced disappearances in Balochistan, has announced the temporary closure of its protest camp in Quetta due to financial difficulties.
The protest camp, which had been running for several years outside the Quetta Press Club, served as a central platform for the families of the so called missing persons
In an official statement, the organization said that severe financial constraints have made it impossible this year to shift the protest camp to Karachi during the winter season.
Traditionally, the camp is relocated to Karachi in harsh weather to ensure better visibility of the cause and to protect demonstrators from extreme cold.
The statement further said that due to these economic challenges, the protest camp will remain temporarily closed from December 15 until March.
The organization reaffirmed its commitment to continue its struggle for the recovery of missing persons once circumstances allow.
It is worth mentioning that Pakistan has launched a commission on the missing persons to determinse that facts and the true figures.
The commission is supposed to carry out the report that which ones of alleged disappeared persons are held by the security forces. Which among them have sought for a self-assylum and are living abroad and how many of them are there in the militat camps aiming to launch attacks on the security forces, civilians and the development infrastruture.
Some of them have also been eliminated by the armed forces during the operations for anti-terrorism by the security forces.
So a mechanism is already developed in order to let the global world know about the facts about the false and self-proclaimed narratives of the forced disappearances in Balochistan.
