News : Baloch Women Panel Seminar in Quetta video clip on 2007/9/13 5:00:00 (27 reads) Seminar video clip of Monday, 10 December : A Baloch sister explaines how the Baloch prisoners a treated in Pakistan army's secret cells (click to watch the video) The method used to torture and ill-treat Baluch detainees in Pakistani jails includes: • Electric shocks • Putting plastic bags over the heads of detainees • Suspending a detainee from a pole between two tables • Cigarette and candle burns • Placing the barrel of a gun in a detainee's mouth threatening to shoot • Threats to beat the detainee's family • Gagging the detainees with a piece of cloth so they cannot shout • Kicking and beating, including with truncheons and butts of guns • Inserting iron rods into their bodies • Cutting the flesh with sharp item and rubbing salt and paper on the wounds Torture and ill-treatment of Baluch prisoners in Pakistani jails The people in the Pakistan occupied Balochistan are facing a peculiar situation of uncertainty and injustice. The secret agencies of Pakistani army can pick a Baloch at any time with impunity. They do not care whether this Baloch is 80 years old or a 12 years teenager. In the list of the disappeared Baloch, many victims have included women and children also. They could be taken at any time, day or night. Their captors may be in uniform or civilian clothes. They forcibly take them away, giving no reason, producing no warrant. Their relatives desperately try to find them, going from one police station or army camp to the next. The officials deny having arrested them or knowing anything about their whereabouts or fate. The courts are helpless. A decision made by even an army subaltern carries more weight than a high court judge does.