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Pakistan Student leader kidnapped

A student leader of Baluchistan kidnapped on February 9 while returning from an internship, the Asian Human Rights Commission reported on 16 February.

Fared Ahmed Bloch, a final year student at the Baluchistan University of Engineering and Technology and the president of the Bloch Students Organization (SO-Assad) of the district Hadar in Baluchistan.

He was abducted from outside the check-point of the Frontier Corps (CF) in Jacquetta, the provincial capital of Baluchistan in southwestern Pakistan. He was returning from an interview for an internship at Pakistan Telecommunications, a sector company public.

Bloch was stopped at a check-point by FC representatives and others in plain clothes, and away in a jeep taken without a registration number. His cousin, he traveling with, beaten when he tried to intervene. His current whereabouts are unknown.

The province Baluchistan was the scene of an armed secessionist movement since 2000, and the area has born the brunt of retaliation the government's actions, including disappearances and unexplained arrests by the security forces that can not be detected by the courts and is not recognized by The government .

According to a Feb. 4 report by the BBC, the Baluchistan home department recently received a list of 992 missing persons, their relatives claim was picked issued by intelligence services.

According to the BBC, others disappeared "students include Chakra Khan Mari, who was kidnapped by the Frontier Corps in September 2009 when he and eight other students trying to meet the head of their college regarding student complaints. His body was later found.

Abdul Hay, a 20-year-old student, was kidnapped in August 2009. According to his father, "the FC picked up Abdul Hay outside his college in the presence of his colleagues. When I tried to meet the relevant colonel, he refused me to see. We went to the court, but nothing happened. "