Young journalist found dead in Khuzdar

Another Baloch journalist, Javid Naseer Rind, was killed today. His mutilated dead body was recovered from Khuzdar.

Javid Naseer Rind, the former Deputy Editor of Daily Tawar, a leading anti-military-state Baloch newspaper published in Urdu language, was kidnapped on 10 September 2011 from Hub Chowki, Lasbela, the industrial town of Balochistan. Police quoting eyewitnesses said abductors were riding in two separate cars who held Javed Naseer at gun-point and bundled him into the car and drove away.” He was abducted along with his relative Abdul Samad Baloch. Since then the whereabouts of the both were unknown. 

Mr. Rind’s family and well wishers had legitimate reasons to worry about his forced disappearance because most of the Baloch journalists kidnapped in the past in a similar pattern were eventually found dead. Soon after Rind’s disappearance, Daily Tawar’s editor, Khadim Lehri, went into hiding after receiving threats on his life. At least three Daily Tawar reporters, Abdul Hameed Hayatan, Siddiq Eido, and Rehmatullah Shaheen, were killed last year.

Unfortunately, Mr. Rind’s fate was no different. Mutilated dead body of Javid Naseer Rind was found today (5 Nov 2011) in Khuzdar. His relative, Abdul Samad, too was killed in the same manner two days ago.

Javid Rind’s name is yet another addition to the long list of Baloch and Pashtun journalists killed by Pakistan’s security forces and their proxies (TTP-LeJ-SSP) in the last few years.