London - January 23, ANI The International Voice for Baloch Missing Persons IVBMP a collective representing family members of Balochistan's forcibly disappeared, strongly condemned the killing of Razzaq Mandai, a Baloch political refugee in Afghanistan.
IVBMP said that they were aware of his case in a statement to the media. He was facing life threats because of his political struggle against Pakistani oppression in Balochistan. He was also registered with the UN Refugee Agency in Afghanistan because he wanted the UN to transfer him to a third country so that the Pakistani intelligence agencies and their proxies wouldn't be able to harm him, he said.
The Baloch group rejected the lies propagated by Pakistan Army-sponsored journalists and social media figures who falsely claimed that Razzaq was a senior commander of an armed group. He was a refugee who went to Afghanistan because he could not flee to a third and safer country from Balochistan. The IVBMP said that they have misspelt his surname as Mandali, which shows that instead of finding the truth and independent reporting, Pakistani media and journalists publish the fabricated propagandas of the Pakistani intelligence agencies.
In Kabul, Afghanistan's capital was murdered by hired guns of Pakistani intelligence agencies, according to our information. After committing this crime, the Pakistani intelligence agencies ran fake news in their media outlets, asserting IVBMP.
They said at the time of issuing this statement on January 22, the whereabouts of his dead body is still unknown and volunteers in Afghanistan are still trying to locate his dead body.
The Baloch group continued, if people who knew Razzaq Mandai and were unaware that he had been murdered until they saw the news and pictures of his dead body in Pakistani media, then it only requires common sense to understand that the real perpetrators are Pakistani intelligence agencies. A Baloch political refugee was murdered by Pakistani state agencies on Afghan soil after being convicted of a crime. The International Voice for Baloch Missing Persons also urged the UN Refugee Agency and international humanitarian organisations to take immediate and practical steps for the protection of Baloch refugees in Afghanistan and transfer them to a safe third country.