President of the Free Balochistan Movement (FBM), Hyrbyair Marri, says that Pakistan is increasingly subjecting the Baloch women to enforced disappearances after failing to silence the voice of the Baloch nation for their legitimate right of independence. After denying the right of fair trial and due process to the victims of enforced disappearances, Pakistan is prohibiting the right of peaceful protests for their loved ones.
 
Mr Marri has said Pakistan is blatantly violating the Geneva Conventions and International humanitarian law by enforcing collective punishment onto Baloch women. Since the occupation of Balochistan, Pakistan has been applying different inhumane actions that include enforced disappearances, torture, custodial murders and genocide against the Baloch nation to counter the Independence Movement of Balochistan.
 
When women were put through enforced disappearance, torture, harassment and murder in East Timor and Kosovo, the international community intervened on a humanitarian basis and prevented those human rights violations. However, when it comes to Balochistan, the international community has kept an undue silence. Does a different humanitarian law apply to the people of Balochistan as opposed to the rest of the world? Has Pakistan been given immunity from the Geneva Conventions and International humanitarian law?
 
Persecution of Baloch women must prick the conscience of the civilized world. Pakistan will not be successful in its attempt to counter the Baloch Independence Movement by inflicting severe punishment on Baloch women. It is time that all Baloch pro-independence political parties come together to form an alliance and collectively file cases in different international fora against Pakistan for its inhumane and illegitimate crimes against the women of Balochistan.