QUETTA: Former Balochistan Leader of the Opposition in Balochistan Assembly Kachkol Ali Baloch has moved to Europe to seek political asylum owing to death threats facing him from the country's security establishment, reported an influential newspaper on Wednesday.
According to a report published in influential Urdu newspaper, Daily Intekhab, Balochistan's former leader of the opposition Kachkol Ali Baloch of the National Party has escaped from Pakistan and taken refuge in Europe. The newspaper said the Baloch leader was expected to apply for political asylum in Italy or Norway in the wake of growing threats to his personal security.
Mr. Baloch, a lawyer by profession, is an eyewitness to the arrest of three of his clients and leading Baloch leaders – Ghulam Mohammad Baloch, Lala Munir Baloch and Sher Mohammad Baloch –from his legal chamber in April 2009. Mr. Baloch blamed the state-controlled intelligence agencies for whisking away the three Baloch leaders. However, neither the local police agreed to register a case nor did the courts take action for the recovery of the three Baloch leaders until their dead bodies were found in the outskirts of Turbat district.
Kachkol Baloch, a high court lawyer and a former minister of fisheries in the Balochistan government, said time and again that his life was in danger and he might be killed by the same people who killed the three Baloch leaders. There was growing demand by the supporters of the popular Baloch opposition leader to leave the country for safety reasons. |
