Ehsan Arjemandi report in NRK

Ehsan Arjemandi (35) was abducted when he was visiting Belochistan in Pakistan. NRKFor one month ago was Ehsan Arjemandi abducted by armed men when he was on his way to Karachi in Pakistan after a family visit to Balochistan. Mohammad Arjemandi believes his brother is held in custody by the Pakistani intelligence. BY:Atta Ansari atta.ansari @ nrk.noSun Iren Bjørnås Sun. Mohammad Arjemandi spend more time on the phone than on anything else at the moment. He calls anyone who might know something about how it has been his politically active brother, Ehsan, who has been a trace over in exactly a month. Mohammad Arjemandi fear that his brother has now ended up in a torture cell in Quetta. NRKMohammad is convinced that his brother kept in custody in the torture cell of Military Intelligence of Pakistan (MI) at a secret center in Quetta, and wish that the Norwegian authorities will investigate the center closer. Also read: No answers about missing Norwegian According to Baloch Unity Conference (BUC), which is a network against the oppression of balochere in Pakistan and Iran, accused Ehsan for having committed anti-Pakistani activities, provided financial support from Europe to the separatist in Balochistan, and to have burnt the Pakistani flag during a demonstration. - I have spoken with the governor and several ministers in Balochistan and asked them for help, "said Mohammad Arjemandi to NRK. He also has relatives who are actively looking for Ehsan, Pakistan, and now organizes Mohammad and his friends a ceremony in Oslo in support of Ehsan. WEB TV: Smith abducted in Pakistan Bortført on the bus Ehsan Arjemandi was abducted when the bus he was in was stopped at Zero Point at Coastal Highway, about 12 kilometers from the City Speak in Pakistan. He was on his way to Karachi, after visiting family and friends in a village man, who is in the Pakistani part of Balochistanprovinsen. - We are the police said those abducted Ehsan Arjemandi, "says bus driver Khalid. NRKØyenvitner says to NRK that the government officials abducted Ehsan Handcuffed and blindfolded. - There were both police officers and soldiers in uniform and civilian clothes intelligence people. They came in big cars and blocked the road. They entered the bus when I had stopped on the side, "says bus driver Khalid who works for the bus company Aslam Dandahi Coach. A medpassasjer tells NRK that Ehsan was directly appointed by a civilian dressed man. They put him in handcuffs and covered his head with a black garment. The man who does not want to come forward with names for fear of reprisal from the Pakistani army and the police are sure that those who abducted Ehsan knew who he was. - A high light civilian dressed men entered the bus and pointed directly at Ehsan. Then he was searched and asked to exit the bus, "said the man. Also read: No sign of life from missing Norwegian Pakistan denies knowledge Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira can not imagine that the intelligence services in Pakistan are involved in this matter. NRKPakistanske authorities have so far refuses to have anything with this abduction to do. Neither Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira who was in Oslo on private visit three weeks ago had knowledge of the matter. He promised to help the family, but rejected, however, strongly suggest that the secret police were involved in borføringen. Mohammad Arjemandi has informed the Norwegian embassy in Islamabad about the unconfirmed message, and wish that the representatives from Norway or Pakistan will investigate these further. - Norway must put political pressure on Pakistan. Bureaucratic contact has no value. Norway must use its position and add political power behind the words, "he says. WEB TV: Foreign Ministry has asked Pakistan for answers to what happened with the Norwegian - 900 trace disappeared Bortføringen by Ehsan Arjemandi is not a unique case in Balochistan. All that can be suspected of supporting the banned separatist Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), is being harassed and persecuted by the police and the military, says Anwar Baloch from the network Baloch Unity Conference. Anwar Baloch has lost more meaningful traps and fears for his own life. - Approximately 900 people have disappeared without a trace. We do lists and contact the authorities at regular intervals, but they tend to respond with empty promises, "said Baloch. Anwar Baloch fear even for their lives and rarely stay in the same place twice. Several of his opinion, traps are either been abducted, tortured and killed, or disappeared without a trace. The police said that there are terrorists behind such acts. But separatists blame the intelligence service. WEB TV: - Norway is doing little Want Independence - It's not going to hold back that part balochere wish that both the Iranian and Pakistani part of Balochistan will become an independent country. We are therefore owl seen in both countries, "said Baloch. He is a member of the official committee which is scheduled to work to retrieve the abducted persons in Balochistan. The committee was created after the chairman of the UN refugee office, John Solecki was abducted in the city of Quetta 2 February. Solecki was later found in good condition with help from the Baloch themselves. So far, two of the members of the committee that Anwar Baloch is a member of the found dead and two are gone without a trace. - Blames gangs Ehsan Arjemandis wife, Noorah, asks her husband's kidnappers to release him free. NRKPakistanske authorities accused the Indian authorities to support separatist BLA with money and weapons. More separatistledere have also fled to Afghanistan. Something that helps to create Isfront between Afghan and Pakistani authorities. - People disappear without anyone taking responsibility. Intelligence blame the gangs and criminals. But most often it is the military intelligence who is behind these abductions. All that open mouth against the government's systematic repression is silent in death, "said Baloch. Lawless conditions There is a lawless state in parts of Balochistan. And the government has put into the military to take the Separatists. - But what about ordinary people in Balochistan is the poorest compared with the rest of the population in Pakistan. Here, we lack power, water, roads and schools. No one else in Pakistan has been so neglected that balochere the past 60 years, says Anwar Baloch. He said that the Baloch Unity Conference supports the struggle for rights, but not the use of violent means. - I'm sure Ehsan Arjemandi has been taken by intelligence believes that he supports an armed struggle. But he does not. He is only concerned with the human rights situation in Balochistan, "said Baloch. Facts about Balochistan Balochistan is a region in the border area between Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan and extends over about 300,000 square kilometers. The region is named after the Baloch ethnic group, who constitute the majority of the population in the region. Baloch people is originally an Iranian people, who came west and settled in the region around the year 1000 Most people speak Balochi. Balochistan is a province in Pakistan, which occupies the eastern part of the country. The province is the largest, but also the least populated of Pakistan. Its capital is Quetta.