“Qaiser came home about five months ago after his grandfather’s death and said that things were fine. There are threats there, but usually the machines are damaged. People are not in danger. We were told that there was army security there, we felt that if there was army protection, there would be no danger.”
Saying all this, Raja Ijaz, a citizen of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, was overwhelmed. Two days ago, after burying his son Qaiser, a video of him crying during the funeral prayer went viral on social media in Kashmir.
Raja Qaiser was one of three Kashmiri laborers who were abducted after an attack by militants in Balochistan in October and whose body was found in a hospital in Quetta last week.
A senior government official in Quetta, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the BBC that Raja Qaiser’s body was brought from the Mangechar area of Kalat district four or five days ago.
They said that Raja Qaiser had five bullet wounds on his body, three of which were in his chest and two in his stomach. They said that the body of the deceased had been lying in the morgue of the Civil Hospital Quetta for two days.
The official said that Asad Qaiser belonged to Pakistan-administered Kashmir. After identification, his body was handed over for transfer to his native area.
Mangechar is an administrative tehsil of Kalat district. When contacted, Kalat District Deputy Commissioner Bilal Shabbir confirmed the recovery of the bullet-riddled body of a Kashmiri youth and told reporter Muhammad Kazim that the case is now with the CTD, i.e. the Counter Terrorism Department.
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He said that the CTD officials can tell us about the progress made in the investigation in this regard, but despite repeated contacts with CTD officials, no response was received.
A senior Levies Force official in Kalat told the BBC that the body could not be identified here, after which it was transferred to the Civil Hospital Quetta for identification and postmortem, where it was identified.
Raja Qaiser’s body was found near Kohak Cross in the Mangechar area.
A senior Levies Force official said that Raja Qaiser was kidnapped some time ago by unknown persons after an attack on the camp of a company working on the Quetta-Karachi highway near Mangechar.
They said that the company’s machinery was also damaged in the attack.
He said that after the attack, several people at the construction company’s camp were taken away by the attackers, but most of them were later released.
He said that since this incident is a serious terrorist incident, the investigation into it is the responsibility of the CTD.
‘I didn’t expect the situation in Balochistan to be this bad’
Raja Ijaz, the father of Raja Qaiser, a Kashmiri youth who was kidnapped and killed in Balochistan, says that 22-year-old Qaiser was the second of his five sons. For the past six months, he had been working in Balochistan to support him.
He said that they are poor people and their livelihood is through hard work. Therefore, his son had gone to Balochistan to work on a CPEC project.
He said that he had no idea that the situation in Balochistan was so bad that his son’s life would be in danger, otherwise he would never have sent him there.
He alleged that there was no security in the area where his son and others were working and that the company had ma”Qaiser came home about five months ago after his grandfather’s death and said that things were fine. There are threats there, but usually the machines are damaged. People are not in danger. We were told that there was army security there, we felt that if there was army protection, there would be no danger.”
Saying all this, Raja Ijaz, a citizen of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, was overwhelmed. Two days ago, after burying his son Qaiser, a video of him crying during the funeral prayer went viral on social media in Kashmir.
Raja Qaiser was one of three Kashmiri laborers who were abducted after an attack by militants in Balochistan in October and whose body was found in a hospital in Quetta last week.
A senior government official in Quetta, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the BBC that Raja Qaiser’s body was brought from the Mangechar area of Kalat district four or five days ago.
They said that Raja Qaiser had five bullet wounds on his body, three of which were in his chest and two in his stomach. They said that the body of the deceased had been lying in the morgue of the Civil Hospital Quetta for two days.
The official said that Asad Qaiser belonged to Pakistan-administered Kashmir. After identification, his body was handed over for transfer to his native area.
Mangechar is an administrative tehsil of Kalat district. When contacted, Kalat District Deputy Commissioner Bilal Shabbir confirmed the recovery of the bullet-riddled body of a Kashmiri youth and told reporter Muhammad Kazim that the case is now with the CTD, i.e. the Counter Terrorism Department.
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He said that the CTD officials can tell us about the progress made in the investigation in this regard, but despite repeated contacts with CTD officials, no response was received.
A senior Levies Force official in Kalat told the BBC that the body could not be identified here, after which it was transferred to the Civil Hospital Quetta for identification and postmortem, where it was identified.
Raja Qaiser’s body was found near Kohak Cross in the Mangechar area.
A senior Levies Force official said that Raja Qaiser was kidnapped some time ago by unknown persons after an attack on the camp of a company working on the Quetta-Karachi highway near Mangechar.
They said that the company’s machinery was also damaged in the attack.
He said that after the attack, several people at the construction company’s camp were taken away by the attackers, but most of them were later released.
He said that since this incident is a serious terrorist incident, the investigation into it is the responsibility of the CTD.
‘I didn’t expect the situation in Balochistan to be this bad’
Raja Ijaz, the father of Raja Qaiser, a Kashmiri youth who was kidnapped and killed in Balochistan, says that 22-year-old Qaiser was the second of his five sons. For the past six months, he had been working in Balochistan to support him.
He said that they are poor people and their livelihood is through hard work. Therefore, his son had gone to Balochistan to work on a CPEC project.
He said that he had no idea that the situation in Balochistan was so bad that his son’s life would be in danger, otherwise he would never have sent him there.
He alleged that there was no security in the area where his son and others were working and that the company had made shortcomings.
“We had heard that before killing or kidnapping people, they look at their identity cards and don’t say anything to Kashmiris,” he said.
Raja Ijaz said that he learned that three Kashmiri youths, including his son, were kidnapped in an attack by militants in Mangechar late on the night of October 14.
He said that the kidnappers had left a phone number on a slip of paper on which they left messages while leaving. In response, one day, he was told from the same number that the contractor had made a mistake by ignoring the kidnappers’ repeated warnings to stop the project.
It should be noted that despite efforts by the hostages’ families, company officers, and security personnel, it was not possible to contact this number again, nor was any further contact made.
According to Raja Ijaz, the kidnappers told him that they had asked the contractor for a percentage of the project. Now the matter is between them.
“If they get the percentage, they will leave the servants, and if they don’t, they will be killed.”
Why didn’t they ask the police for help to recover their son?
Raja Ijaz said that when he told the company about the messages he had received, they first said that they were a fraud and were just lying for money. Then he was forbidden to talk to anyone about it.
Raja Ijaz says, “The company that sent us to work in Balochistan had forbidden us, saying that talking about this to the police, media, or social media could put the lives of the hostages at risk. We are dealing with this, and everything will be fine.”
“They never told us what was going on and what was being discussed. Now suddenly they told our relatives that pictures of bodies had come from the Quetta DC office, one of which was Qaiser’s.”
However, the company’s Balochistan project manager says that they did not stop anyone.
According to him, it was not a trivial matter. Therefore, everyone knew about the attack and kidnapping. ‘This matter was not a cover-up, so there was no reason to ask for it to be hidden.’
Raja Ijaz, the father of the deceased Qaiser, said that the company owner and his brothers made arrangements to bring Raja Qaiser’s body.
Raja Ijaz says, “The company owners came here, but now they are saying that your children went to work of their own free will, we did not force anyone to do so. We are not responsible for their deaths.”
Raja Qaiser’s father says, “We want efforts to continue to recover the kidnapped. Our child is gone, but the rest of the youth should be brought back alive.”
de shortcomings.
“We had heard that before killing or kidnapping people, they look at their identity cards and don’t say anything to Kashmiris,” he said.
Raja Ijaz said that he learned that three Kashmiri youths, including his son, were kidnapped in an attack by militants in Mangechar late on the night of October 14.
He said that the kidnappers had left a phone number on a slip of paper on which they left messages while leaving. In response, one day, he was told from the same number that the contractor had made a mistake by ignoring the kidnappers’ repeated warnings to stop the project.
It should be noted that despite efforts by the hostages’ families, company officers, and security personnel, it was not possible to contact this number again, nor was any further contact made.
According to Raja Ijaz, the kidnappers told him that they had asked the contractor for a percentage of the project. Now the matter is between them.
“If they get the percentage, they will leave the servants, and if they don’t, they will be killed.”
Why didn’t they ask the police for help to recover their son?
Raja Ijaz said that when he told the company about the messages he had received, they first said that they were a fraud and were just lying for money. Then he was forbidden to talk to anyone about it.
Raja Ijaz says, “The company that sent us to work in Balochistan had forbidden us, saying that talking about this to the police, media, or social media could put the lives of the hostages at risk. We are dealing with this, and everything will be fine.”
“They never told us what was going on and what was being discussed. Now suddenly they told our relatives that pictures of bodies had come from the Quetta DC office, one of which was Qaiser’s.”
However, the company’s Balochistan project manager says that they did not stop anyone.
According to him, it was not a trivial matter. Therefore, everyone knew about the attack and kidnapping. ‘This matter was not a cover-up, so there was no reason to ask for it to be hidden.’
Raja Ijaz, the father of the deceased Qaiser, said that the company owner and his brothers made arrangements to bring Raja Qaiser’s body.
Raja Ijaz says, “The company owners came here, but now they are saying that your children went to work of their own free will, we did not force anyone to do so. We are not responsible for their deaths.”
Raja Qaiser’s father says, “We want efforts to continue to recover the kidnapped. Our child is gone, but the rest of the youth should be brought back alive.”
