Apropos Dawn’s editorial ‘Military courts: a wrong move’ (Dec 31). It has been rightly concluded that the establishing of military courts could produce far-reaching consequences for democratic dispensation.

The people of Balochistan are also concerned by this move of the federal government. They aptly ask that what the establishment of military courts would entail for our restive province.

Will it produce the missing persons of the province, and more importantly, will it stop the ‘kill-and-dump policy’ allegedly blamed on the security forces?

Some civilian quarters are rightly afraid that the only probable change the military courts might bring in Balochistan would be that in the past the bodies of the missing persons were appearing in the far-flung areas of the province. Now they would be hanged in jails and torture cells with an official stamp and the backing of the ‘bloody civilians’.

Ibrahim Batozie Kakar

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Published in Dawn, February 27th, 2015

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