“#Families have been #disconnected, relations severed and #identities have been #lost across the province due to the policies that have been put in place at these border towns.“ 2/

“My aunt passed away in the recent past and no one from my family in Pakistan, including my father, could go to Iran to pay their last respects for the departed soul. That is the dilemma of the frontiers — the borders that divide us only push us further into oblivion, forever." 4/4

I am reminded of the hazy childhood recollections that I have of some of my cousins and my father’s eldest sister, who I met only once as a child growing up in Dalbandin. They had come to visit us in the late 1990s from Sistan-Balochestan in Iran. I still do not remember the names of my cousins.“ 3/

“#Families have been #disconnected, relations severed and #identities have been #lost across the province due to the policies that have been put in place at these border towns.“ 2/

If the international community, particularly human rights “champions," cannot or are unwilling to make Pakistan allow independent reporting and exposing the truth, they should not have the right to stop the victims from defending themselves and their families and lands. 4/4

If any govt or institution has doubts, it must first force Pakistan to allow independent human rights organizations, experts and media to visit and investigate how Balochistan is governed and how her people are treated and brutalized. 3/

All investment or business deals, such as China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and Canadian mining corporation, Barrick Gold’s Reko Diq mining projects, also have no legitimacy and are implemented militarily and violently. They should be stopped and investigated. 2/