Baloch must support each other even if Paki call them Gangsters these young people have no jobs and no future living in Karachi they see the big contrast of life and the huge differences between a Balochi life and the Punjabis and a Muhajirs living standards, where Punjabi and youth from other nationalities drive the latetest module of cars and enjoy food in restaurants while Baloch kids sleep hungry, Pakis purposely deny Baloch every thing on which a human can survive a decent life.
The Baloch youth like the Rehman are forced to show their frustrations in this way by snatching and fighting not only for their survival but to compete with Punjabis and Muhajirs youth in this way.
Paki take every thing from the people of Balochistan and Sindh but give in return misery, hunger, military action and finally destruction of our houses and taking all the valuable from our houses and worst of all they beat kids women and leave us with nothing but humiliation, how then should we react? Any reactions from our side will be treated as terrorism and we are called gangsters opening the door of hell for us.
I call upon Baloch to fight for your rights what ever label they give us and people like Rehman are part of us provided they do not harm ordinary civilians.
Baloch unity.
Hub people suffer LEAs’ wrath
By Arman Sabir
KARACHI: The people of Zehri Mohallah in Hub, Balochistan, are now paying the price of having a residence in the neighborhood of the ’White House’ that happened to be the hideout of Rehman Dakait, the ringleader of his notorious gang. The area people did know and so did the area police that Rehman had been living there for about three to four years. But no action was ever taken to arrest him. On the question of his free movement over this long period, the Hub police are presenting lame excuses, maintaining that they had been making efforts to arrest him but he always dodged them.
Residents of the locality around the White House say they had never seen Rehman Dakait or noticed his movement. Police and Rangers conducted a joint operation on May 17 and raided the White House. The battle left one police officer and three civilians dead, and another 12 policemen, three Rangers personnel and six civilians wounded.
At least 20 people were rounded up in the ensuing swoop in the area for interrogation. None of them, however, turned out to be guilty and the police had to let off all of them. Although, the Dakait managed to make his escape good, the law-enforcement agencies turned hard on the local people, suspecting that the entire population of the locality was supporting Rehman Dakait and his gangsters. "It seems as if we are citizens of a country conquered by some hostile forces," some of the local people lamented while commenting on the treatment being meted out to them by the police and rangers since the failed operation.
So far, none of the gang members could have been arrested despite the bloodshed. Panic prevailed in the entire locality.
A visit to the area showed that the streets of Zehri Mohallah were deserted and people were scared of getting out of their houses. They were even not ready to speak about the incident. Nazim of Khuzdar Tehsil Yunus Aziz Zehri, however, collected courage to narrate his ordeal. This encouraged many other people to speak out.
A 60-year-old woman, Hajiani Mah Bibi, said: "We woke up in the morning on Tuesday with the deafening sound of gunfire. Suddenly someone knocked the door and some other people in uniform broke into our house by scaling the outer walls. The intruders started beating up us. My two sons were hauled up to the veranda from their room. They were also beaten up. I kept praying them for mercy with the Holy Quran in my hands but the uniformed people did not care. They hit me on my face with the butt of their rifles."
The woman lamented that they did not spare even an eight-year-old girl who was beaten up. She burst into tears and went on to say: "We have never heard Rehman Dakait or his gangsters having scaled someone’s house or harmed anyone. We haven’t seen Rehman Dakait but he must have been better than these uniformed people."
She claimed: "The uniformed people ransacked the house and took away Rs20,000 that I had saved for some rainy day or my final rites. I begged them not to take away the money, but in vain."
Relatives of Lutfullah, 20, one of the three civilians killed during the operation, contested the claim by police and Rangers that the civilians were caught in crossfire. They said that the law enforcers had dragged him out of his house and at a distance of about 50 yards, they shot him dead.
Lutfullah’s cousin Mohammad Malook Bangalzai said: "We were all asleep when some people knocked at the door facing the street. They also peeped into the room through a window. Lutfullah was sleeping in the room. As he saw some uniformed people, he got frightened and ran inside the house. He also alerted other sleeping family members. As we opened the door, the uniformed people entered the house and whisked away Lutfullah, arguing that why did he run. They severely beat him up and a little later, we heard sound of gunshots. We were stunned to see Lutfullah lying in a pool of blood."
Bangalzai said that the uniformed men beat up all occupants of the house.
The house of Yunus Aziz Zehri, the Nazim of Khuzdar Tehsil, is located some 100-150 yards from the house of Rehman Dakait. During the course of the battle, the law enforces took refuge in the adjoining houses to take position. Some of them had taken refuge in Zehri’s house for the same purpose. Mr Zehri said: "Although we did not resist, but they resorted to holding my two brothers hostage instead of acknowledging the cooperation."
Identifying his brothers as Aurangzeb and Zulfiqar, he said they were asleep in the house before the sound of heavy shooting awoke us. Aurangzeb said that some police and Rangers personnel scaled the wall to enter the house. They sought our help in combating the criminals by taking position on the rooftop of two-storey house. We did not resist as they had already entered the house. However, they blind-folded me and my younger brother Zulfiqar and forced us to keep sitting in the room. They also beat up both of us and threatened us with their guns.
Mr Zehri led this reporter to his house where everything appeared upside down as all the house was badly ransacked and household items were seen littered on the floor. Yunus Zehri claimed that the law enforces took away Rs48,000 from the house, besides a refrigerator, a TV set, a licensed shotgun, a rifle, three mouser guns, four mobile phone sets and some other valuables. He said that he, along with his family, lived here for about a decade. "I knew that Rehman Dakait was residing in the White House but we have never seen him." He said that the law enforces had meted out the same treatment to all the residents of this locality.
Saadullah, another resident of the locality, said that he was going for some work when stopped by the law enforcers near his house. "They deprived me of Rs900 I was keeping in my pocket, he complained.
Some people said that law enforcers did not spare even the pesh imam of Madni Masjid, Nawab Sasoli, who was dragged out of the mosque and severely beaten up.
Yet another local resident, Anwar Zehri, said that he had been intercepted by law enforcers and robbed of Rs200. He also stated that his guest, Zahid, who had come to see him, was also robbed of Rs550 by law enforcers.
http://www.dawn.com/2005/05/23/fea.htm#3
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