Despite the natural resources, the Baloch are deep in deprivation, poverty, and lack of education and health care. The subjugation of Rawalpindi was not accepted by the defiant Baloch nationalists. The Voice of Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP) stated that between 2002 and September 2018, at least 6,428 persons were forcibly abducted by security agencies and their henchmen, who have links with Rawalpindi. Mama Qadeer Baloch, the vice-chairman of the VBMP in September asserted that state-backed death squads had spilled the blood of the Baloch in several areas of Balochistan. Most of the missing persons are mercilessly tortured and killed in custody, and later the mutilated bodies are dumped near their villages as a warning.

Source: Dhaka Tribune October 12, 2020 20:03 UTC