Fri, June 3, 2011
- Occupied Balochistan
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- Shaheed Tariq Taheer
laid to rest amid Thousands mourners
Reported by Adeenag/
02/06/2011
It was an emotional morning in the tiny village in Kech. Thousands
gathered
first time in its history to pay their tribute to Shaheed Tariq
Taheer who was
martyred by Pakistani army after inhuman tortures during seven
months of
custody. The villagers shouted slogans against Pakistani state.
Shaheed Tariq Taheer, a Balochi poet and stage drama writer was
abducted by
Pakistani Coast Guard and ISI at a Karwaat military checkpoint in
Pasni on 14
November 2010, while travelling from Karachi to Kech. After 7 months
of illegal custody he was killed
- and dumped in Kund Malir on June 2,
2011. His body bore several torture marks and he was shot in the
- head and neck. The signs of tortures
show that he was kept in the worst kind of a torture cell surpassing
all the brutalities unleashed by Nazi in concentration camps. Born
in Tanzag, a tiny and desolated village
- in Kech in 1979, Tariq completed his
early education in Kech. As a poet and script writer for stage
drama, he
actively took part in Balochi literacy societies. His poetry is
nostalgic and shows deep love for motherland.
- He mobilized youths to read and
write in Balochi language. One of the pages in his personal diary
posted
- by a relative on Facebook read like
this,“My paradise, the Balochistan, is my first mother. I am proud
that I
- am fighting for the independence of
my motherland. I have only one wish that if I’m martyred, I will be
honored
- for my motherland and no one should
weep at my demise and instead, they should be proud that I
sacrificed
- my life for my motherland.”
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