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Pakistan secret agencies are backing criminals to target civilians in Balochistan, activists claim

| @indiablooms | Apr 14, 2020, at 07:28 pm

Quetta/Islamabad/IBNS: Apart from improper implementation of system by the government needed to contain COVID-19 outbreak in Pakistan, political activists are now alleging that the secret agencies are constituting criminal gangs and providing them weapons to target civilians and activists in Balochistan province.

On April 10, a man named Haji Ahmad Khan Mirwani, his daughter Asma Marwani and son Ramzan Marwani were attacked that left them critically injured in Kathan area of Khuzdar district by ISI-backed death squad personnel, reported ANI news agency.

In a video, that has now gone viral on different social media platforms, Ahmad Khan Mirwani can be seen in the emergency ward of Khuzdar Civil Hospital.

The attacked victim named those who targeted him as Fayyaz Zangijav, Tariq Zangijav and Shahnawaz Zangijav in the video.

The Baloch National Party said in a statement as quoted by ANI, "Fayyaz Zangijav has been accused of leading a criminal group commonly called in Balochistan as "State Death Squad", which were allegedly created by secret agencies of Pakistan. Fayyaz Zangijav is also head of land mafia group in District Khuzdar."

Fayyaz Zangijav is an accused in multiple murder cases, media reports said.

"There is also a case to be tried, in which he was arrested, but his cases have been withdrawn from the intelligence agencies", Baloch Liberation Party told ANI in a statement.

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