Pakistan ambassador to the United States has been shamed over her opposition to a historic hearing at the U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday.
In a letter to Sherry Rahman, Pakistan's new ambassador to the U.S., an anonymous Baloch writer drew her attention to the plight of Abdul Qadeer Reki, vice president of the Baloch Voice for Missing Persons.
The subject of the letter was "Pakistan, Pakistanis shameless. Are you too?"
Rahman was offended that Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, Republican from California, chaired a hearing on Baluchistan at the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
“Pakistan is a democracy conducting itself in accordance with the international law,” Rahman is shamelessly quoted in a Pakistani newspaper as saying.
Rahman's deceased father Hassanally A. Rahman, was a barrister and educator and uncle Tufailally A. Rahman, was chief justice of the Sindh and Balochistan high courts. Both were highly respected in Sindh.
"I am sure both of them will be turning in their graves to see their brilliant daughter, who calls herself a human rights defender, becoming the envoy of a rogue, terrorist state," Rahman was told.
The letter to Rahman coincided with BBC Urdu report on the daily crusade of V.B.M.P. vice president Abdul Qadeer Reki, who is seeking justice for at least 1,400 document victims of enforced disappearances even though Pakistan's military Intelligence killed his son.
These victims are still languishing in Gestapo-style torture cells.
Reki's son Jalil Reki body was found in the Aap Sar area of Turbat in Mekran on Nov. 24, 2011. Jalil Reki was forcibly disappeared Friday, February 13, 2009 by Pakistan's Military Intelligence in front of eyewitnesses in Quetta while he was returning home after prayers.
"I weep for him once every while and salute his determination and bravery," Rahman was informed.
After forcibly disappearing them, the actvists are brutally tortured at secret detention centers, killed execution style and their bodies dumped. There have been nearly 350 such cases since July 2010.
Pakistan is carrying out Hitler's night-and-fog policy, which was meant to create despair and despondency among victim families, in Balochistan.
After 33-month struggle when Reki came to know his son has been killed by the Pakistani secret agencies, he asked if they want to kill them anyway why don't they kill them right away in stead of keeping the victim families in suspense and mental torture for years.
Reki has been receiving death threats from the Pakistani spooks he will die the same way his son died if he does not stop his campaigning.
"You have claimed to be a human rights defender. It seems like you are as superficial as your artificial country," the Pakistani ambassador was told.
"If you have shame and a single drop of honorable blood of your father, I hope you will immediately resign from your post against the enforced disappearances, torture, execution-style extrajudicial killings of Baloch activists," the letter added.
While asking Rahman to resign, the writer said, "I have little hope you will do that since your country has shameless politicians who do not know how to behave with women on the streets."
Pakistan premier Yusuf Raza Gilani handpicked Rahman for the most coveted ambassador's job in Pakistan. A video of Gilani trying to publicly fondle Rahman went viral on Youtube. Gilani and Rahman were at a public rally before the Pakistan People's Party came into power (Watch accompanying video).
Rahman was P.P.P. member of parliament. The P.P.P.'s Senator Raza Rabbani, at a meeting of the upper house of parliament, termed the sub-committee meeting on Balochistan meddling into Pakistan's internal affairs.
"Please show you are Rahman's daughter and resign against the killings in Balochistan," the letter appealed.
Two months ago Rahman replaced Husain Haqqani who was sacked by Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani on the orders of Pakistan's powerful military and Inter-Services Intelligence. Haqqani was charged with lobbying the U.S. military to save the democratic dispensation in the nuclear-armed country with is the international headquarters of al Qaeda, Taliban, Jaish Mohammad, Lahkar-i-Toiba and other extremely dangerous terrorist outfits.
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