{"id":46074,"date":"2022-07-06T15:00:21","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T06:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/jul\/06\/pakistan-5000-people-disappeared-missing-balochistan"},"modified":"2022-07-06T15:00:21","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T06:00:21","slug":"more-than-5000-people-are-missing-in-balochistan-i-want-my-father-back-sammi-deen-baloch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46074","title":{"rendered":"More than 5,000 people are missing in Balochistan. I want my father back | Sammi Deen Baloch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan\u2019s security services have \u2018disappeared\u2019 Baloch people for 20 years, yet we are portrayed as terrorists. We need justice<\/p>\n<p>I started protesting after my father, Dr Deen Mohammed Baloch, was abducted from his hospital in Khuzdar, Balochistan, on 28 June 2009. I became an activist, raising my voice against the heinous crime of enforced disappearances: more than 5,000 people are missing in Balochistan.<\/p>\n<p>In the 13 years since my father was taken, I have spent most of my time on roads, in front of journalists\u2019 press clubs across Pakistan \u2013 with a photograph in my hand, asking a simple question: \u201cWhere is my father? What is his crime?\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/jul\/06\/pakistan-5000-people-disappeared-missing-balochistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan\u2019s security services have \u2018disappeared\u2019 Baloch people for 20 years, yet we are portrayed as terrorists. We need justiceI started protesting after my father, Dr Deen Mohammed Baloch, was abducted from his hospital in Khuzdar, Balochistan, on 28 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59,53,60,80,79,61,281,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-development","category-human-rights","category-pakistan","category-protest","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-women","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46075,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46074\/revisions\/46075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}