Brother of Dr. Manan Baloch. From: Huffingtonpost article by Malik Siraj Akbar: "...Dr. Manan,48, was killed a day after a meeting between Sanaullah
Zehri, the pro-Islamabad chief minister of Balochistan and Lieutenant
General Amir Riaz, the highest official of the Pakistan army designated
in Balochistan. Both of them vowed to "chase the terrorists". The chief
minister urged the security forces to work as a team and said, "I'll be
your captain." The next day, the vocal Baloch leader was murdered in
what the officials describe as an 'operation against the terrorists'. In
2009, Dr. Manan's party chairman, Ghulam Mohammad Baloch, was also
killed after being whisked away by Pakistani security personnel, as
alleged by the eyewitnesses. When his mutilated dead body was found, the
New York Times reported that the Baloch leader had "played a role in helping to secure the release of John Solecki, the kidnapped United Nations official."
Dr. Manan was widely respected in Balochistan for his work with the internally displaced persons (IDPs)
who had been forced to flee their homes in different parts of
Balochistan where the Pakistani military was carrying out strikes during
2004 and 2006. I met him for the first time in 2009 as an independent
researcher while working on a report on the Baloch IDPs for a project of
ActionAid Pakistan.
He was extremely helpful in providing invaluable information about the
IDPs and their challenges, especially the medical needs of women and
children of the conflict..."