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Pakistan: student leader abducted

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

Fared Ahmed Bloch is a final year student at the University of Engineering and Technology and president of the Bloch Student Organization Bloch (BSO-Azad) District Khaddar in Baluchistan.

He was abducted from outside the checkpoint of Frontier Corps (FC) in Quetta, capital of Baluchistan province in southwestern Pakistan. He was returning from an interview for an internship in Pakistan Telecommunications, a public sector company.

Bloch was arrested at the checkpoint FC representatives and others in civilian clothes, and led him away in a jeep without a registration number. His cousin, who was traveling with, was beaten when he tried to intervene. His current whereabouts is unknown.

Baluchistan province has been the scene of an armed secessionist movement since 2000, and the area has taken the brunt of the retaliatory actions of the government, including detentions and disappearances not declared by the security forces that can not be tracked by court and are not recognized by the government.

According to a February 04 report by the BBC, Baluchistan home department recently published a list of 992 missing persons claim that their relatives were gathered by intelligence services.

According to the BBC, the other students "disappeared" include Chakra Khan Mari, who was kidnapped by the Frontier Corps in September 2009, when he and eight other students tried to meet with the director of his school in relation to the complaints of students. His body was found later.

Abdul Hay, a student aged 20, was kidnapped in August 2009. According to his father, "Abdul Hay FC gathered outside their university in the presence of his colleagues. When I tried meet Colonel concerned, refused to do. We went to the track, but nothing happened. "