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The United Nations team visiting Quetta to look into missing persons issue met and interacted with a large number of people, including senior officials, and said they have the impression that something was "seriously wrong" because of which the people are extremely worried and anxious. Separate delegations of Balochistan National Party-Mengal, Jamhoori Watan Party, Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party, Hazara Qumi Jirga and Shia Conference met with members of the U.N. Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances, reports The Nation. Kurshid Jamaldini and others met the U.N. mission being headed by Olivier de Frouville.The U.N. delegation avoided talking to the media, but Agha Hassan Baloch said the U.N. team told them "The number of missing persons in Balochistan is above 14,000. However, the party had prepared a list of 1,000 missing persons and had already dispatched it to U.N. and other international organisations of human rights. It included 480 decomposed dead bodies found dumped from desolated areas of Balochistan - a fact which the government has also verbally accepted," said BNP-Mengal Information Secretary Agha Hassan Baloch. "The BNP urged U.N. and other international human rights organisations for playing their due role in ending this violation of human rights, and that through a well-knitted plan political leaders and activists are being eliminated so that nobody could raise voice against the looting and plundering of the resources of the province," he added. Jahmoori Watan Party chief Talal Akbar Bugti said he had apprised the U.N. officials about the extra judicial arrests, enforced disappearances, violation of human rights and recovery of mutilated dead bodies in Balochistan. "More than 13,000 people are missing in Balochistan. As we have no access to other areas, therefore, the JWP delegation presented a list of only 650 missing persons with complete details," Talal Bugti said.

UN team says something is 'seriously wrong' in Balochistan