July 19, 2006	Wednesday	Jumadi-ul-Sani 22, 1427

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QUETTA, July 18: Two younger brothers of Senator Sanaullah Baloch, Information Secretary of the Balochistan National Party (Mengal group) have been missing for two days.

Senator Baloch told Dawn from London on telephone that his brothers had not returned home since July 16, adding that his family members had no information about their whereabouts.

“My brothers have been kidnapped by personnel of an intelligence agency from the Askari Park area,” he said, adding that they were on their way back home.

He said that none of his brothers was involved in politics and according to his information they were “not involved in any case”.

He said that his brother Obaidullah, 26, had recently returned from the US and had been working with an NGO, Balochistan Institute for Future Development, as a part-timer, while Samiullah Baloch, 24, had completed his masters degree in law, was heading the same NGO working on human and women’s right.

He said that the NGO had recently opened around 20 schools in the Kharan district.

Senator Baloch termed the ‘kidnapping’ of his brothers political victimisation and said that it was part of the government’s tactics to force him to abandon the struggle for the legitimate rights of the Baloch people.

He said that if they were involved in any case, the government should try them in a court of law.

He appealed to the Supreme Court and human rights organisations to take notice of his brothers’ kidnappings.