QUETTA - While rejecting the number of missing persons, Inspector General Frontier Corps (IG FC) Balochistan, Major General Ubaidullah Khan Khattak has said those people who were listed as missing were hiding somewhere in Afghanistan or India.
He expressed these views while laying a foundation stone of college hostel in Loralai on Friday. He said that the claims about the figure of missing persons were incorrect and it is merely a propaganda.
‘FC never whisked away any political activist in Balochistan or involved in practices of enforced disappearances’, he said, adding, that those who have been arrested by FC were produced before the courts.
He said FC is working under the Constitution and law and had never been indulging in any criminal activities.
Commenting on increasing incidents of kidnappings across the province, he said that FC will take stern action against the criminals without being pressurised.
He said that those elements involved in kidnappings in the province might be powerful or influential but FC would not spare them at any cost.
Baloch nationalist leaders accused FC of being involved in enforced disappearances in Balochistan.
Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP), an organisation striving for safe recovery of missing persons, put the figure of missing persons to over 8,000 and say it has complete details of 1,400 missing persons.
Later, talking to local tribal elders in Loralai, IG FC said all out-efforts are underway to maintain peace and prosperity in this region.
He said peace cannot be ensured without the help and support of the local people.
He said the problems of the Balochistan can be resolved by addressing its economic issues.