14th August Black Day

Freedom is the recognition of necessity

11th August, 2021

Seeking the truth about the so-called independence lies at the heart of the oppressed people of Sindh & Baluchistan since 1947.

Today, we remember those gone and those who are left behind. It is the day to press the International community to set up efforts to prevent and participate in the way for the independence of Sindh & Baluchistan. It is the day to stand-in solidarity with all the victims of this crime and call on Pakistan authorities to hold those responsible to account.

Historically, more than 70 million Muslim’s and other minorities from the Indian sub-continent upon the surety of the United Kingdom migrated to newly born Pakistan with the hope that it will secure the future of the new generation but unfortunately ethnic cleansing of Mohajirs, political victimizations, enforced disappearances, extra-judicial killing, continue, affecting those most vulnerable, the marginalized or those targeted by the state and non-state actors. In Pakistan, however, enforced disappearance, extrajudicial killings of Mohajirs and innocent MQM workers has become a tactic explicitly used by the Government of Pakistan and military Establishment to stifle criticism and threaten dissent since its creation.

Militarizing constitutes multiple violations of human rights of both the individuals and their communities likewise what especially happening with Mohajirs, Sindhi’s and Balochi communities. It has repeatedly been described by the UN General Assembly as ‘offense to human dignity and a grave violation of international human rights laws.

The practice of human rights violations including enforced disappearance, extrajudicial killings, of MQM workers and people of Sindh and Baluchistan by Pakistan ISI is among the worst anywhere in the world. The fate and whereabouts of thousands of workers of Muttahidda Quami Movement, the third-largest political party of Pakistan and the second-largest political party of Sindh, founded and led by Mr. Altaf Hussain, are still unknown. To date, not a single person suspected of any criminal activities defined under international laws have been produced in any court of law for decades.

People have pictorial and documented shreds of evidence of illegal and unconstitutional abductions of their loved ones by Pakistani Law Enforcement Agencies. Even though Ex-Prime Minister/Federal Minister for Interior confessed publicly on electronic media about the illegal abductions of several MQM workers by Army and then brutally tortured, murdered, and buried in Margala Hills, Islamabad. But, unfortunately, there is no one in Pakistan raising a voice against such brutalities.  Even the courts are not interested to provide justice to the victims' families or even try to produce their beloveds’. Several of the mutilated bodies of the victims were found in different parts of the province and most of them are still missing.

Thousands of petitions and legal solicits were filled by the victims' families in different Courts, human rights organizations, the United Nations, US State departments, Amnesty International, etc. Therefore, we are again observing 14th August 2021, as the ‘Black Day’ and urge the United Nations and the cordial world authorities including human rights organizations, European Union, and others to please intervene in the worst situation of basic human rights violation in Sindh and Baluchistan.

Regards,

MQM USA
mqmusa@mqmusa.org